Better. Alrighty. Onto consent items. Mister president, tonight, we have the minutes from the previous board meeting, personnel items, FMLA, and claims. And, mister Harper, your name is on the the agenda tonight as a volunteer assistant. You may wanna Okay. Introduce yourself some reason to vote. I'll try to guess those things. I appreciate that. So it's we're close to spring sports, so it's time. That's it. You're calling to Did you get big bucks for? Motion to approve this, Samantha. Okay. We have the first I'll second.
And the second. We have a first and second to approve consent items. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passed. Who's Mike Moore and Alex Gordon at eight here locally? The baseball assistants. I don't know who they are. Oh, Michael Moore's, a group around here with the army. Oh, he's kind of a good guy. He was a medic. I just want He always sits with, Timmy Dyke. You know Timmy Dyke? Oh, yeah. At the football games, you know, one real tall.
Alright. Just asking. Thanks. On to action items or we did claims. Correct? We did, sir. Sorry. Action items? This just more of that bus driver's trying to figure out what the best way for them to have a drug pool or not have a drug pool, have their taxes. It's just the Mossberger's wanting to put it back in the Mossberger bus in LA. So it's So we switched everyone to individually, and now they're switching back. Is that how that's? We got everybody. It wasn't everyone?
No. Because some of them it all depends on actually, I think it depends on what they think. Not necessarily what they know. Because I really can't see this. They're getting any taxes. I ain't just doing it this way, but whoever does their taxes tells them they do. So Would it to put it in the LLC, you're saying? Yeah. They have to manage their own drug pool now, though. Yeah. They they come with a with a problem more. So I said So they have to do their own drug testing? Uh-huh. That's where it is. Change it. I heard last spring. Yeah. It's it's taken the system. It's worked really well for the last fifty years.
We're so lucky we're in Jen. Upside down. It was making it less efficient. It sounds like our government at work. Kevin, I'll make a motion to approve the transfer of bus contract from the Mossberg Mossberger to Mossberger Bessie, LLC. Second. Here we have a first and second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passed. Onto the second reading of Neola number 37, volume two. We have to vote on this one. Correct. Let me vote this evening. That was fun reading. That should have deleted one.
Just kidding. Motion to approve second reading of Neil on volume 37 number two. No. I'm just gonna mention. Alright. I apologize. I said, well, got it too. Got it first. Second. The second. Got a first and second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passed. On to the second reading of volume thirty thirty eight. We'll have to vote on this as well. Correct. Anybody like to make a motion or have any questions? I'll make a motion to approve the second reading of line 38, number one, for
September 25. I'll second. We have a first and a second. All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passed. Onto three thirteen point four, appointing, prove the appointment of Tiffany Arnold to the Fort Branch Johnson Township Public Library. Yes. They bring that to us. It's just like any of the other libraries. They they throw in selection. We just have to approve it. Motion to approve the appointment of Tiffany Arnold to the, Fort Branch Johnson Township Public Library. We're on the first. I'll second. The second? Any discussion?
All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion passed. Onto 13.6. Five. Oh, five. The approved right off of outstanding checks. You should be able to see the list. It's Yeah. Private list. I looked at none were mine, so I was surprised. And you'll notice a lot of these are lunch refunds. It moved. It it's lost. Either lost in the mail or they just don't ever catch them. Listen. I run like a What's that? Academy or dicks or something.
I'm sure. Uh-uh. I just I might have been wrong. Those are pretty I'm gonna see some of them. Yeah. Like, here we got Gordon food server. Mount Vernon High School. Yeah. Well, just pretty. I I can't pull it up, Tim. I did this for free. I I thought I I read it earlier. I read it earlier, but I Oh, it's not on there now. I'm looking at it. Yeah. I think that's what we just No. Are you logged in or just is it public? If you're if you're in, it's just public, you you should probably can't see it. Okay. If you're logged in you, I think you should be able to see it.
But Thank you. Gibson's own had the Okay. Some athletics. I don't know why somebody's on cashier. I'm hiring. But I'm right I'm in here as Tim remember. Me too. So you might have to go, like there's eight pages. So Okay. I knew I read it at home, so I'm gonna tell you. That's just a knowledge break. Okay. We're not too worried. I apologize. Do we vote on that? Uh-huh. Okay. Onto, 13.6.
What? It's a motion. We gotta vote on it. Oh, I'm sorry. I think you were asking if we had had, but Oh. We need to vote on that. Yes. So we need a vote on that. All for the write off of the outstanding checks. Motion to approve write off of the outstanding checks. Got a first. Second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Closed. Motion passed. Onto 13.6. You remember last year, we had to transfer money to levy access because in the year before, we collected more in property taxes than we were certified for.
So we had to transfer into the operations from the operations to levy access, and now that becomes part of our revenue for 2026 so we can transfer that balance back to operations from levy excess. That's all this does. Motion to transfer balance of levy excess to operation for for 20¢. I'll second. Got it first and second. All in favor? Aye. Closed. Motion passed. 13.7. The next is temporary transfer to transfer money off from operations to cafeteria to bring it up to zero, reverse that in January.
You feel okay? We have 7¢. You sure you have zeros. Well, I had to make it zero exactly, so that's just carry on. No. That's alright. No choice on my commotion to to, transfer from operations cafeteria for year '25. We have a first, second, and a second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passed. The nest are simply appropriation adjustments. Some schools don't even bother with those highlights or anything like that. It looks pretty. I don't know.
It's not either where we actually spent it. Doesn't change to the bottom line budget at all. Motion to approve here in the procreation of questions for '25. I second. We have a first and second. No discussion. All in favor? Aye. Closed? Motion passed onto 14 discussion items with doctor Perry. Just a few things I wanna kind of, you know, bring your attention. You know that we're in the middle of legislative session, and they're moving at the speed of light. As of last Tuesday, there were 72 bills outstanding that impacted education once they perform.
One of the bills that I wanna make sure you're aware of is a cell phone bill, which would essentially ban cell phones in schools. I don't know that we're necessarily opposed to it. I think what I'm concerned about is unfunded mandate saying if there were an emergency, parents can go over their kids. Those kind of things these things would have to be stored away from the kids at at present writing. We're not done yet, but it would completely ban it during the day from beginning to end. So that's that's out there. There's some other bills on teacher salaries and how we would go about, funding those
and, what's the word I'm I'm looking for, distribution of funds. They wanna do some differentiation. They were trying to find a way to differentiate between different types of teacher groups. I'm not necessarily excited about that because, you know, I think it's making all our teachers important, not just one particular group. They're all hard to come by too. We improved that over time. So those are some things that are out there just as highlights. There's a lot of stuff going on, but those are the highlights. I did wanna point out if you walk by that you might have seen the weight room is complete. We've got really good reviews on that. It looks really good.
The kids seem to be very excited about it. Our PE teacher, mister Simmons, has done a really good job trying to keep it clean. So, and they're they're gonna grow into that. I know I talked to mister Hart a couple times, you know, how's it working out for them, and and they're thrilled. So, so I'm very happy with that. The greenhouse is on order. It has to you know, we're getting a very large greenhouse. It has to be engineered. It has to be this the pad has to be engineered. It's on order. It'll be here as soon as we can get it here. It's like anything else, but it's it's coming. It's gonna be a nice one. I do wanna point out that the the building foundations, they're prepping for building foundations
out there. There's a tentative delivery date of March 2 for the building to be sitting there waiting for them to to install once it arrives. You know, we're at the mercy of weather, but, they've been working hard out there. They got the foundation to rock in really quickly. I think they worked around the clock on that one really, but it's moving along. We don't have a lot of concerns at this point. Just kinda giving you update on that. We are getting to get ready to go into staffing season, and I'll be meeting with schools in February to start talking about staffing. And we'll be talking about needs versus funding because, you know, the funding is changing
in Indiana. We don't expect as much money to come to us. There are gonna be some needs I anticipate. I think special education, mister Harrison and I have been talking about some needs we're gonna have there. If Hopstock keep continues to grow at the pace it is, as of a week ago, it's 427 kids at Hopstock. It's it's growing. So, there may be some needs there, but, you know, maybe having to reallocate resources, we'll be looking at all that. But the important thing is we need to sit there and meet our kids that we have here at at where they're at. And so and to continue to be able to fill our buildings to, you know,
not overfill them, but, be attractive to those around us. So, kindergarten is gonna be important. I'll play some kindergartners rolling around out there. We are gonna do a little bit of advertising, for Fort Branch because the kindergarten numbers were down this a little this year, so we're gonna put something down. Mister Wilson put some things out. Hey. If you're interested in kindergarten at Fort Branch, now is the time to let us know, to see if we can get those numbers back up a little bit. So we'll be doing that. And, just, you know, I think you're aware that girls basketball numbers in in the nation, it's a it's a problem everywhere, and mister, Brasher is wanting to talk to
you about that, next month. He's got some ideas around that. Our girls team, for example, has played North JV team three times because of so many schools that don't have JV teams even. There's a school nearby that is was highly successful last year. I just don't want it. But their numbers are so low. They have only a varsity team, and they were highly successful last year. It's it's a a problem that can not gonna go away. We've been consolidating teams for the last three, four years. It's we could have probably consolidated more this year, once we got through with it.
So he wants to bring you some proposals we're just talking about girls, because we wanna make sure that we give our student athletes the very best opportunities we can have. They play together, and we also support that program that we have that is so successful here. You know, keep that rolling. Because I I do believe, you know, we've got an a, b, and c team, if you will, at the high school level, and that is pretty unusual right now. It is a problem. So he's gonna bring some information to you in February with some ideas, about how you'd like to see that done, and it would be for our students that are enrolled in our KA buildings.
Is this their last year at, consideration or, four? That's a good question. Okay. It the four a question will be determined with the sectional. If we win the sectional, we will stay up at four a because of success. We went to semi state last year in four a. So, you know, we we wanna win every opportunity we get. If they win, they will stay in four a. So, and, you know, we proved last year that we're very careful of playing in four a. So and and, honestly, the, it was just a reminder the girls draw is Sunday
afternoon. It's next week's end of the girls season already. The boys, it's not that far off. So, but those are just some of the highlights you wanna make sure you pay attention to the legislative stuff because tens ten zero zero four is a very big deregulation bill, and there's a lot of stuff in that. And, it's it's a priority bill because it is under 10, so it is a priority. So that's a big bill for for us, but there's a lot of them out there that have implications. And like I said, the the the house education committee meeting is is meeting more
regularly than it has been in the past, and they're meeting very frequently and things are moving very, very quickly at the state level. So they're trying to have that short session because they started a little bit earlier this year. So, just keep an eye out because we're trying to do it. I had a meeting with IAPSS today. I'm on their legislative, committee. So I get some pretty I guess some good updates of what's going on. They try to keep us and get get ideas from us. So, I'll keep you informed to the best of our ability, but even I is reading all this stuff every pretty much every day I'm reading something.
It's it's hard to keep up with. Do you have the house bill number for that cell phone and the other one that you referenced? Not with me. Okay. You say this is a short session? Yeah. It's a shorter session because next year will be my name and money. Yeah. Yeah. Because I did the two weeks in December for your district. Do you care what is in this one? I do. Yeah. The cell phone bill, I mean, I don't think anybody has a problem. We we want kids to be, you know, paying attention to the classroom, but I you know, there are some concerns. I think, families would be concerned with their kids not having access to a phone
in in of an emergency. You know, that could be natural or anything. You know, they wanna be able to get contact with them, and that would be a legislative legislature decides that. No. No. It's also could be an unfunded mandate if they come up with something that we they think we need to store these in or find a way to store them. It's gonna be you know, there's the facility you're storing it in. There's the oversight of storing it. There's a lot of things that come with that. I'm hoping that will all work its way out in the wash, so to speak, to where it's a a little bit more palatable and and somewhat local control.
But, It doesn't apply to teachers, does it? No. But I think adults need to set a good example. Okay. To be fair. And we're all tethered to them. I mean Oh, yeah. I I'm pretty sure that when I when I finish my work career, I'm gonna grab for a phone every thirty seconds for a very long time. Well, you know, the river might be the best spot for a cell phone at this point. Go back to a flip phone. It'll be easier. Probably so. But, you know, I think that that comes with some implications. I I understand the thought by it. There there's some bills about social media wanting to make sure that kids don't have
access to that. And, you know, when you're talk you're also talking about, watches would be devices, and they wouldn't be able to use anything but your school issued device for things. One of the things that nobody's really talked about is what is what about the glasses? You know? Just testing makes me nervous about glasses. If they if they've got AI on their glasses, that would be a huge violation of test policy. And, as usual, kids are way ahead of us when it comes to stuff like that. So, you know, there's a lot to that. So but, anyway, those are the things I just kinda wanted to bring to your
attention. So thank you. Alright. Thanks. Any announcements? Nope. Okay. I was gonna ask about the the lunch. How's our lunch? Is it the lunch will be fine? I'm trying to think. I've looked for Christmas break, Rachel. The short answer is yes, but I can't come up with a number to Yeah. That's Yeah. It it's gotten better. Okay. I was thinking that, we would discuss this month compensation for these work positions. And is it still okay to do that? Because I don't think We're in discussion. Is that where we're at now?
We're still in discussion. Yeah. This is board discussion. Yeah. So we have the option to stay at where we're at now. I'd say percent of the Go ahead. Give me your opinion. I was gonna give you mine too and My opinion is I I don't wanna do anything additional, but that's just for me, and I don't wanna speak for everybody. So I just assume not to change anything. We would do something. I think we need to do it when the teachers do theirs. If we would do something that we're not doing it here individually, I'd say do it. If they the teachers get a two or three, that they we if we wanna
do that or if they wanna make a suggestion for that administration then but I don't really wanna do it outside the contract the teachers do. Yeah. I think Just my opinion. We have the option to pay 10% of the minimum teacher salary Mhmm. Which would be 4,500 instead of two Up to 10%. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right. And I just wanna make it official that we could all talk about it and say that we if everybody agrees that we forgo that at this time.
I'll give you my 2¢ here too since I'm I'm no good on the board. For many years, you know, it it's it was 2000 when I started, so it it has never changed. I mean and at the time, the board elected to I mean, we had some tight years. We had cut our salaries for for a while. But with the legislature making the change, I just want you to think about that. Amen. It's gonna run because they want you to have a party affiliation, although even, say, non was it independent or whatever.
And I hope I would encourage everybody to do that so we can keep the legislature out of it. I think it's gonna cost more to run as a school board for school board. So that's that's my only concern. It's for I think on a everybody else, Kevin. I apologize. Yeah. So I think if we spend over a certain amount anyway, that we're gonna have to report differently. So there's a very small amount we're allowed to spend when it comes to running for election. But it's whatever you want.
You just gotta But then you have to do extra. Right. Right. Yeah. I don't plan on spending any extra, but, I guess that could be everybody's product, but that's handled differently than compensation. That's more about expense than for the election than it is compensation. Correct. But for most people, it comes out of their pocket. Maybe you're lucky and you get some donations, but, I usually never Not too much of that either because that's more boards. So Yeah. But I know a lot of boards just through the years, and most of them
are the 2,000, but then most of the other boards get paid per meeting and per committee meeting. Some get insurance, which we don't take any of that. So that's just a thought. I think visiting it when we visit all of the playgroups does make some sense for you guys to be able to here's what employee groups are doing, and then we can do yeah. I think that does make some sense at, at that time if you're up for it. So when does that happen again? That would be, we can't start negotiation. It'd be actually, we finalize it in October, so it'd be the October time frame.
So could we wait until after until October? Yeah. That's what I was gonna say. Just I'd rather do it down and all the teachers and everybody get it doesn't look like we're doing it ourselves. We yeah. We we can then look at, like we'll be you know, we look at what we're doing with teachers. I wouldn't even worry about that. There's percentages. Oh, I'm sorry. I mean, I wouldn't worry about the perception that we're doing it outside in cycle because I've been on the board for twenty years. It hasn't changed for twenty years. So That's true. Everybody else's salary has been adjusted many times over twenty years. So I just feel like this is a service role. It's not about Yeah.
Absolutely. Solution. It is a service. And you guys just serve each other serve each other well. I appreciate that. I don't I don't have any I mean, I'm okay with waiting, but I don't I don't I'm okay with waiting. Is everybody okay with waiting? I'm good. So I'll get that. I mean, it's not an outage. Can I make a motion? That way we say the word. Or should I make a motion? I think you essentially directed us to bring it back in October at this point when we do all compensation adjustments. Technically, we don't need a motion because our salaries aren't changed because we're still at
the 2,000. Okay. And I feel like you you now directed us to remember to do that, and we will remember to do that in October as we're doing things. We're, seeing the past. We we didn't here. We didn't vote on it. We, Doctor Humbaugh would make a suggestion that I I want you guys to take a increase. I mean, she would, sort of mandate it or that we took money from you. We're gonna give it back to you and stuff like that. But I know some other districts that are taking it, so it's just sometimes it
can be a lot of work for some districts, and they're just a bet. I mean, we'll just play it by ear and come October. So Thank you. We'd like to make a motion to adjourn. Motion to adjourn. Got a first. I'll second. Second. All in favor? Aye. Closed? Call the Motion to adjourn. Call the, let's get some southern border finance meeting to and then I'll turn over to two. Well, like I said, there's really not much reports since we're trying to report on
monthly basis anyway, but I did put on the agenda just to tell you where our funds are at and how much interest in the coming end of the year. Generally, the normal packet that you get every month except this one, basically, covers all the bases anyway. But that's just a highlight. Obviously, the it's in the checking is inflated from the, bond issue. Mhmm. So that's what makes that look a little higher. For some of the newer members right now, we the the the k eight buildings
bank at United Fidelity, and we keep some money there just as a savings just because they're one of the few local bank banks that's got a local presence. So any other discussion? Put promotion to adjourn. I like a motion to adjourn.