Alright. Y'all stand for invitation of federal relations. Reese, take it away. Dear heavenly father, thank you, Lord, for bringing us together tonight and for carrying us through the month of January. I'd like to ask for guidance, wisdom, and positive direction as we continue the pathway for our school. Please protect our students, faculty, and staff, and grant patience and strength to every person. May tonight's discussion be guided by respect, communication, and understanding. May good things grow from decisions the decisions made here tonight. I pray for our community that hearts are softened in your presence.
Grace is found in your timing and unity is strengthened as we move forward together. In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. Amen. Vodgili. Jesus to the flag. Thank you so much. Thank you, Pete and Chris. Thank you. Alright. Call the regular session to order. Any additions or revisions to the agenda? I heard none. Alright. Any public comment? Service none. Next we have the consent agenda, item 2.4. It's all blue sky. Anyone has any questions? Let's take a motion in a second. So moved. Motion made by Dave. Second.
Second made by Sam. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed. Motion carries six zero. Superintendent's report. Under 3.1, recommendation of personnel, we have a handful of items. Under three one one, Tim Abel has, notified us of his resignation as a high school phys ed teacher. And then under three one five, we have two ECA resignations. Mr. Abel has, notifies that he is resigning as the high school head football coach. Tim's going to retire from both coaching and teaching.
And then, Brent Hite has submitted a resignation as assistant high school softball coach under 03/16. Oops. 03/16. Andrew Collins, recommendation to hire's assistant softball coach. Macy Spies, recommendation to hire's assistant softball coach at the high school investment department. Recommendation is volunteer coach for the baseball team. Andy Ernestas is a volunteer with the EB Grand Prix team. And, mister Kegley, Tim Kegley, as you guys know, is assistant principal at our high school. Recommendation to hire as a high school head football coach.
And I know mister Graham, he wanted to introduce coach and his family to the board. So I'm gonna give you the floor, sir. Yeah. And believe it or not, I'm gonna I already know. Yeah. There you go. Is it brand new? You know, it's it's always interesting when you try to replace someone like Coach Abel. And and, we felt like we were very blessed in the conversations that mister Chandler and I had, having someone already here in the building with the reputation that he has with all of the, relationships that he's built with the FTA, with the middle
school, and then, of course, with the high school. And and we just felt like it was just the right timing for, coach Kenley to step into this role, and we're just very blessed to have him. And we're very excited to look to see the future with the the path that we're gonna take with, his leadership leading with our, football all the way from the ground up. So, congratulations. Thank you. So you guys can ask a question. So let me through these last two and then fire away. Anything would be appropriate here. Jason Bass, a recommendation to hire volunteer boys call coach and then there are a
number of rehire spring coaches, on the ECN schedule that's attached to the other Scott. I'm happy to answer any questions or if you have anything you would like to say to greet coach Kegelen formally and officially before we take action. What are you most excited about? Do you have thick skin? No. Coaching is not the faint of heart. Yeah. No. I've been coaching for twenty five years and, been around a lot of really good coaches. Coach Abel included, my time previously, you know, at, Warren Central, Grand Meridian, Indian Creek
for a little about. Trying to find ways to challenge them, toughen them, and have them maintain and and learn qualities are gonna help them long after football's over. Yeah.
And make them stronger. Yeah. I'm really happy to see that you were here as a student playing football. I don't know if it's the same football field, but in the same area and Same location. And turf. It's just We had a lot of Yeah. I'd be happy to to see that full circle. Yeah. I appreciate the time that, you know, you guys spend on keeping the football team, you know, together and teaching them what it is to be a team or those
kinds of things. So thank you. Thank you. What's your first order of business? Resetting expectations, for our off season with the kids at high school. Strengthen the bridge between the middle school and the high school and sort of rebuild it from FTA to the middle school. Yeah. Very good. I think I feel like we were very blessed to have you as a coach and I look forward to working with you from and build and continuing to build that Yeah. Bridge. Thank you. Mister Miller, what's the, back to the, is there gonna be a gap between, phys
ed and teacher? Or what's your what's the plan? Coach Ed was retiring at the end of the academic year. So he'll finish out this school year. Okay. And then, we'll conduct a a search. We'll post and we'll look to, to reenvision to a degree that program. I think there's some opportunity effort. Okay. K. It does require a motion and a second.
I move that we accept the recommendations of personnel. I second. Motion made by Travis, second made by Karen. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? Motion carries six zero. Zero. Congratulations. Okay. Okay, guys. 3.2 is a recommendation to accept donations. There are three. From the Nintra family, $240 to Triton Central Archery. Kroger rewards program, $696.96. Let's do that. I have to take one down fast enough. To the elementary school and then to have the FFA threatened $750 from Shelby County
Act. I would recommend that we graciously accept all three. I would live to accept. Second second made by Shay. All those in favor, signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed, motion carries six zero. 3.3 is a request to authorize, voiding two year old checks and when it defer to Mrs. Auchenbaugh or she's going to provide a warning check. Yes. Every year, when we close-up the calendar year, we look at any checks that did not clear two years. We either we try to find out if, check was lost, we reissue, but there
is a procedure after it's approved by the Board for the ACA treasurers to put that money back into the accounts that they came out of. So, all three schools, they just had a couple, at the admin administrative office. We didn't have any but I put a letter in there just because I wanted that noted that he didn't have any. So, with the board's approval, I can we can move forward in putting those funds back into the ECA, where they came out of.
There's no further questions, I'll move to approve. Second. Second made by Travis. All those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All those opposed? Yes. This is, fund report for January. Start of the year, not much activity as far as carrying over from the previous month. We did have a three payroll cycle that's why the expenditures are higher. We're still on our benchmark. We expected that. We planned that. The of course debt we had no activity. Operations three payroll cycle.
The next one's August, I believe. So, usually twice a year we have that. As far as the expenditures and operations, we had it's the time for insurance and our portion for Blue River and Fuel. So that that took a hit this month. But it hits usually it hits in December but I pushed it off to January. Ready day, no activity and lunch you see our state reimbursement came in a little higher than our expenditures. With that's kind of carry over from, like the December to January and you know
we had Christmas two weeks off, we had snow days. So, next month I anticipate it to be a little different. Mhmm. But I'll entertain any questions. Okay. From the board. Alright. I already told Shay she gets to start. Oh, goodness. I'm gonna I'm gonna reflect and give a shout out back to the think out game, that was not too long ago. So I know mister Thompson's not here, but to watch that young man stand up there and give that wonderful speech, just made me even more happy to be a
part of this community and see the kinds of kids that we're raising here. So I do not know the amount of courage that he had to have, but clearly everything that, that his wonderful mother taught him, is shining through. So, really loved seeing that. I just wanted to say thank you for the donations And, I noticed that they had the exit conference today. I wanted to congratulate Jamie that there was no No federal findings.
I needed you guys there to hear that. It's a No. Mister was there. Mister Turner was there. Yeah. We were really pleased with the Falcom. You know, they're gonna find something and it was all minor and correctable. So very pleased pleased to hear. And I have to give kudos to Blake because the federal part was the cafeteria. And, we have really worked hard to clean that up from where it was because that's usually where our findings were. So, yeah. I was really pleased. So thank you, you. Good. Thank you.
That's all I have. Fifth grade boys won their first county. Just shout out to them. Great season coach. Good one. Pushed it all later to the end. Coach Granite for the girls. Thank you. Coach Kegelick, I'm excited. I'm excited. Thanks, Sam. Yeah. Congrats to, fifth and sixth grade middle school. Boys bring home, county trophies. Thank you coach Abel for your tenure here in a very respectable thirteen years. And then, really appreciate mister coach Keighley, moving the tire train, down the field.
Looking forward to it, especially all three of our boys. It's gonna be coming up through the ranks soon. So looking forward to it. Thank you. Thank you. I wanna congratulate our we had three wrestlers advance to regional. I wanna I was listening to the radio on Saturday night, the girls basketball game, and I heard that coach Graham had his three hundred fiftieth win Friday night. So congratulations to you. Coach Kegel, Yeah. Just echo, what everyone else has said.
And then also, yes, thank you for the donations. Congrats to our cheerleaders for traveling to, Florida and competing at nationals. I hear they had a wonderful, magical time. And, extending my thanks again to coach Abel, for his tenure here and, the work with with the boys and excited to see the future for all of our sports, specifically football. But, I think if the fall had anything to say about where we're headed, I think there's a lot more happening. So, I'm excited to see, what we can do for our athletes moving forward.
And then I just wanna thank everyone from Terry's crew to you guys. I'm pretty sure you were handling a shovel in the snow. And, I mean, it was just unprecedented. And, we have eyes. We see. Yeah. But, I just wanna thank everyone for all of their help with all the snow removal and the temps and the chaos with the middle school and the restroom. I mean, it just there's a lot of facility related things happening with the last snow days and just thankful for everyone's work and, patience with each other. And we get patience for keeping our kids home. Absolutely.
Just saying. Absolutely. It's been on day three you're ready for. Day three was interesting. Yeah. Yeah. I I would echo, the comments about coach Abel. I know Tim isn't here, and we'll have an opportunity to honor him later in the year. He always represented our place with class and decorum. You never had to worry about being on the front page of the Indianapolis star for something, regrettable with Tim. Coached a long time. I've been around sports a long time. He's one of those rare guys that he knew his system so well.
I I've seen coaches lose a lot of games. It's not often you'll see a coach win one, frankly. Players win games, not coaches. I saw Tim Abel win some games with halftime adjustments at times. So super, grateful for what he did here, and he set this place on a really good foundation for a guy that is as one of the highest character guys that I've ever been around. And I'm really excited for for our kids to play for you. I'm excited about the direction you're gonna take this thing. Winners promote from within and we win, and it's it's your time. It's really cool to have one of our own back to lead this thing.
So I can't wait for the fall, bud. I'm glad you're with us. Thank you. Alright. Who is that? Who wants the honors of a motion to adjourn? So moved. Thanks. I'm a motion