- 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 all very much. Please
- be seated. For those of you that may join our streaming service, we are starting a little bit late.
- We had a work session.
- If you wanted to see that, it will be posted, so you can go back and check that out. This is the regular
- November 2023 Richland Beanblast and Community School Corporation Board of Trustees meeting. And please
- let the record reflect that Mr. Tucker, Mr. Durnall, Mr. DeMoss, and Mr. Kerr are present this evening.
- And were there any visitors who wanted to make comments this evening? No? Okay. Then we'll move straight
- to the Mustang moment, and Dr. Sanders, take it away. Yes, you know, we have a lot to brag about tonight,
- so I hope the people watching, they're gonna be on the edge of their couch throughout the evening, because
- we have, just have great kids to celebrate, and you know, it's,
- I enjoy going to the band competitions. What I try to do throughout the years, the season, is I don't
- want to know what they're going to do at the state competition at the beginning of the season, because
- I get so excited to see when they, oh, they added a new part, a new piece, and new costumes. I mean,
- it's always changing.
- And then when we get to the state competition, all year long, especially this year, I heard this is
- the best performance that they've seen our band perform. And that's a band who has won several state
- championships. And so we get down to the actual competition, and I'm sitting there now in the crowd,
- and I'm watching each band perform, knowing how good our band is,
- but watching all these other bands who are all pretty good themselves. And to think that we're going
- to win another state championship, you still get nervous. You guys still get nervous? You know,
- and each one, for me personally,
- And I just get to go and enjoy. I don't do the hard work, but I get to go enjoy, but each one is more
- special than the one before. So I'm gonna bring Dirk up, and he's gonna introduce our band director.
- Yeah, it was, I told Aaron tonight, Aaron was our band director, of course.
- at a meeting that I personally thought this was the best show, but Aaron, how many times have I said
- I think this is the best show yet? I think I say that every year, so we actually have a special team,
- and I'm gonna brag not only on Aaron, but also Derek. You gotta have somebody at the top, and I think
- every, you know, you think about sports and you think about the great,
- head coaches, and Aaron is a great head coach, but boy, he put a great supporting staff around himself.
- Matt and, of course, Kurt at the junior high, and Derrick. Derrick's, the design of the show is mostly
- Derrick, and Aaron can tell you that, but it's just really, they're a great team, and they get the most
- out of students, incredibly so.
- in the way they work with the kids is just outstanding. So it was another exciting year. The bonus is
- one of my favorite rock groups of the 70 was ZZ Top. And we get a little bit of experience in Edgewood
- High School of ZZ Top. So that's just kind of a bonus of it. But no, I just want to say I can't say
- enough great things about the program, about the directors, and the team.
- the camaraderie of the entire group and the parents. They couldn't do it without the parents. But just,
- I commend them, I congratulate them and ask them to come up and talk a little bit about the show. They
- didn't know I was gonna put them on the spot. Our goal as a staff when we go to create shows
- Yes, we want it to be entertaining. Yes, we want it to be challenging. But we also want to have a lesson,
- like a lesson or a theme that they learn every season. So this year was called Transient. And it's not
- a homeless person. I had to correct Mr. Kaler. He's like, we're doing a show about unhoused people.
- Like, no. But it's about everything is not permanent. Everything is fleeting. And especially when you're
- younger and you think you're invincible and time moves.
- It's it's not permanent and trying to express that to them and let them learn that lesson throughout
- the course of the season You know the start of the season. It's it's a long seasons four and a half
- five months of hard work It seems like forever at the beginning, but then you're crying at the end of
- the season because oh my gosh it's over and teaching kids
- that it's important to stop sometimes, take a step back, be reflective in the moment, and to enjoy the
- experience, enjoy the camaraderie, enjoy being with each other because everything will move on.
- And we, you know, our activities divided, segmented, every season is different. It's a different group
- of people, it's a different team, a staff, like some of us old guys have been around forever.
- But faces change, the vibe, the energy shifts from year to year, and to really take that into account
- and enjoy the moment. And I think the kids especially resoundedly respond to that in a very big way
- this year. And our success, I think I speak for Mr. Wells in this, is it's one thing to have student
- buy-in, it's one thing to have parent buy-in, it's one thing to have administrative buy-in, but I think
- the reason we
- experience the success, it's not just the school board that we get support from, it's our entire community.
- And stuff like this is special for Ellisville Richland Bean Blossom because the community is fully bought
- in and we would not experience that success without you guys, the community, our administrators,
- our students, our parents, and we could thank, you know, business partnerships we have, sponsorships,
- We could talk for hours and hours of all the people we can thank, but I think for time-saving,
- thank you. Like, it wouldn't happen literally without every single person in this community. Thanks,
- next person. My twin brother, actually. So to kind of piggyback on that, I kind of know we've made it
- big when Starbucks opened early for us at 4 o'clock in the morning to make coffee.
- And when I heard that, I was like, it's gonna be a good day. So I was really sorry about all the people
- that had to hear us play at 4.30 in the morning, but it turned out okay. Kind of what Derek said, one
- of the things that I find really great, and I will say that and use it, is Saturday I got a chance to
- go up and present to a room full of
- music educators. And they all asked me, you know, I was at a table, and they all came around and asked
- me questions. And one of the questions was, how are you so successful? And I said, well, you got to
- have a Derek, and you got to have a Matt, and you've got to have a Kurt, and you got to have a Tim.
- And they're like, well, how do we find those people? And I'm like, you just become friends with them,
- like in your early 20s, and just hope that something great like this happens.
- That's really what has happened. Derek and Kurt and Tim and Matt and I have been together forever. Just
- the process of us being together forever, working here with Mr. Ackerman and being able to say, I have
- a principal that I've worked with with 20 years. Almost didn't happen if Brad didn't decide that.
- that one day, he's like, I don't want to work with this new band director, so I'm going to go sell insurance.
- So I'm glad you went that route. It seemed like it worked out for everybody in the room. But it's been
- a great 20 years building this thing. And to say that we've done it four times in a row now, let alone
- just say we've done it once, is extremely impressive. And on behalf of myself, Mr. Kaler, who's right
- now getting ready
- fire up a great rendition of Hot Cross Buns at a sixth grade concert. He wished he could be here, but
- on behalf of myself and the team, we'd like to tell everyone in here, and everyone who's watching, it's
- great for us to bring it back, bring the state championship back for the school, but it's also great
- to bring it back for the city and the town of Ellsville, because like that,
- That's a lot, to see all the signs and all the people hanging out on the streets as we drive home and
- get police escort to bring us back. And the kids, I think they're kind of like me. I don't think they've
- really realized what they've done. It's been a week, and I'm still like, I was in Lucas Oil Saturday
- going, hey, I remember I was here last week. What happened? I'm like, oh, yeah, that's right. And so
- I wanted to just take a second on behalf of myself and the team, just say thank you. So thank you.
- Yeah, well, he's right. We have a wonderful community, and that's what makes being a part of the school
- system honestly so easy, because we're all here for the kids, we're all here for the community, and
- so we just really appreciate those who hang around with us and stick with us and help take us to really
- cool places.
- Okay, we'll move to the consent agenda. Back to business. We have approval of minutes. On October 21st,
- 2025 was the collective bargaining public hearing. Then on October 21st, 2025 was our regular school
- board meeting, which followed. And then October 29th, 2025 was our special meeting.
- In financial, we have the treasure report in our packet for October of 2025. And Mr. Durnall, the claims
- please. Thank you, sir. Present gross wages on October the 10th, 2025 for $880,298.75. Gross wages on
- October 24th, 2025, $740,567.71 for a total of $1,620,866.45.
- 46 cents for vouchers October 1st to October 31st 1 million two hundred twenty thousand eight hundred
- twenty four dollars and 42 cents for claims and vouchers for November the 18th for ninety nine hundred
- forty nine thousand one hundred seventy six dollars and forty eight cents for a total of two million
- one hundred seventy thousand dollars and ninety cents for a grand total of three million seven hundred
- ninety thousand eight hundred sixty seven dollars and thirty six cents. Thank you, sir. Thank you
- And we also have personnel resignations, retirements, non-renewals, leaves, and terminations, C-1 through
- 23, and personnel appointments and transfers, D-1 through 16. We are excited to report that we have
- two donations. One is $100 to Ready Schools Initiative from Robert and Natalie Krueger?
- I'm sorry? Okay, and sorry. And we also have supplies to Mrs. Truax's classroom from Donors Choose.
- Do we have a motion on the consent agenda? I move approval of the consent agenda. I'll second. Moved
- and seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.
- And next, there is one supplemental personnel report, and we'll turn to Dr. Sanders for that. Yes, this
- is something that the board's familiar with. We do background checks on each and every employee that
- we hire in the school corporation. And when we get those background checks back, if there's something
- on there that we feel like the board needs to be aware of,
- make sure that you know the situation, that you have a copy of the background check, and we're required
- by law to hire that person through a supplemental personnel report such as this tonight, so. Do we have
- a motion? I move approval of the supplemental personnel report. I second. Moved and seconded. Any discussion?
- All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?
- motion carries. Now we have our construction report. And so Martin truth down and come up. Are you going
- to go together? Okay. Rick just handed me this. Let me make sure I'm able to move through it. Okay.
- This is our November school board meeting construction update.
- We've got quite a few balls in the air right now. Dale did such a wonderful job getting the early childhood
- center together on time. And we're trying to close out as well as we started on that. So I'll start
- real quickly with early childhood. And I did that just because I love that picture. That's looking out
- of the lunchroom at the early childhood.
- Heather has done some punch on her own. She's gotten a list to Dale, which is real helpful. We're trying
- to get all the punch list stuff closed out as quickly as possible. Again, I think she brought that in
- maybe a week or two ago. So we'll get that incorporated.
- And Dr. Sanders has admonished us that we need to move quickly with the punch, and so we're gonna do
- everything we can to get that. The field house, right now we have finished the logo in mid-court in
- the field house, and I've got a picture of that as we get in here. We're pushing to get that one done also,
- Talk to the general trades contractor today. They've got the logo, then they've gotta put a color coat
- in the three-point line. I think they've finished that. And then they've gotta put a couple clear coats
- on it. A couple clear coats should be done by Thursday. We don't want anybody out there Thursday, but
- by Monday it'll be,
- Sad enough for people to be on not sure Rick that we want people in there at that time But as soon as
- Dale's up in a tree right now In his tree stand trying to get some deer and he so said he'd bring me
- some jerky so I let him do it But we're pushing on that we should have everything Rick's been
- Jamming out there, getting the technology pieces and cameras. And I think you're coming pretty close
- on all that stuff at this point. So I'm thinking next week is Thanksgiving. By the time we get back
- from Thanksgiving, we ought to be able to let Dirk get in there. We think.
- As far as the finishes on the floor and that type of thing, it'll be ready. It'll be usable as of Monday.
- Yeah, next Monday. While I'm in there, I'll go ahead and I haven't been reading through these at the
- board, so I'll let you guys take a look at it. It says started the logo. We've finished the logo.
- Dr. Sanders, I think you looked at that and told Dale move forward with it. So we'll get that finished
- up. Again, I'm not going to read all the individual things. There's your new casework, your storage
- cabinets, the bleachers, which are on the west side of the gym. That's your red track. The red has some
- modeling to it.
- We're gonna go ahead and let you use it, some discoloration to it. We'll go ahead and let you use it
- and then we'll come back probably at Christmas and put another coat of red down. But it's usable now.
- There's your darker tone in your three-point line. There's the logo as it looked when Tanisha took pictures
- a couple days ago.
- That's been peeled off and Dr. Sanders, I think it's, I think it looks good. Looks good. Toilet rooms
- for the field house are pretty well finished up. So I said complete gym floor logo, really what we've
- got to do is complete the finishes and then turn over for use. And again, Rick's been pushing to get
- his technology stuff together out there.
- the Mustangs on the wall, the herd of Mustangs. Yes, one of them got much darker in the last, since
- we met last. Yeah, looks good. High school renovations, we're working on phase nine drywall.
- Like I say, Dale's up in a tree this week, so he's a little bit out of touch. Tanisha, my right-hand
- person has been out here
- taking care of the trailer and she'll be out here all this week. She feels pretty good about phase nine
- being done the end of this week. We'll talk about that a little more as we get into the week. We did
- get some furniture delivered and we're working around that right now. We've gotta get the flooring done.
- Kitchen. Vicki's not here either tonight. Vicki met with the Board of Health. The Board of Health has
- given their go ahead. We do have a glitch at the dishwasher machine, but the Board of Health said we
- can use it using the three compartment sink for washing. I'm sure Vicki's not gonna wanna do that, but
- we do already have the Board of Health approval on it.
- That's been sent over to the town of Ellisville. The indication we got from them was as soon as they
- got the Board of Health, we'd get the occupancy. So they got that I think yesterday. So we should have
- our occupancy pretty soon. Rick's been also out there trying to get his point of sale and some other
- things going. So I'm again hoping right after Thanksgiving we ought to be able to get that turned over.
- This is your phase nine, the new conference room, which has two great east-facing windows in it. Tanisha
- took a picture of the drywall, which I included. I'm not really sure why. Here's your new kitchen, so
- you can see it's substantially complete. There's still, I don't think it shows here, there's still a
- front piece that needs to go on one of the stoves. There's a valve.
- a pressure-reducing valve for the stove, which should have gotten installed today. And there's, again,
- as I said, there's actually a valve in the dishwasher. They have the valve, we gotta get it installed.
- Oh. Okay, thank you.
- It's a nice big space. I was back in the kitchen. I couldn't figure out where I was. No, we didn't have
- the conference room in the kitchen. So phase nine, we've got to finish it and turn it over for use.
- We've got to complete the kitchen turnover for use. We are ready. We've got our general contractor ready
- to start doing demo.
- on the old kitchen, but we wanna make sure Vicki's comfortable and has moved in and is comfortable serving
- out of the new one. We had tentatively scheduled that for this coming Monday, but it will be pushed
- back at least a week from that. Once we start the conversion, hopefully we'll knock that out in about
- a month, converting the existing kitchen.
- Primary school's complete. We have the lion's share of the punch list. There may be a couple things,
- but we're honing in on those as hard as we can. Same thing with the intermediate school. It's complete
- and in use. Early childhood center, the playground. You all approved that, the bids last meeting.
- We've sent the contractor, the contractor, they have it, and they're starting to compile their submittals.
- We did a pre-construction meeting out on site with the contractor and walked the site so they know what's
- going on. We expect to see submittals before too long. The schedule for the playground is gonna be very
- weather dependent. We've got a couple things that are going on there, the asphalt,
- There's an asphalt track around the playground. We've gotta wait for the asphalt plants to be open.
- And the other thing is the surfacing, the soft surface on the playground. I believe it's gotta be 40
- and rising or something to that effect to install that. So we've got a couple weather-dependent things.
- Again, I met with Crider and Crider as the contractor, and they indicated they'd like to get it going
- as quick as they can.
- Before they do anything we've got to fence it all in because we're right up against the existing playground
- And I guess this is the stuff I just talked about the next 30 days Corporate wide roof replacement Arnold's
- left to Arnold and Misha and Russ who's our our
- Testing guy, he's doing cores and he's gonna moisture test it. Walked the roof three weeks ago. Russ
- has been out, he's done cores. We actually core all the different areas to see what the existing construction
- is. We need to know that for a couple reasons. One is are we running into any kind of issues that we
- need to pick up?
- The other is where we do demo, the contractor needs to know what he's demoing. All of the cores have
- been done at the high school, junior high school and both elementary schools. We do need to do a thermal
- scan at the high school. We're hoping that we'll get done in the next couple of days. I know Misha and
- his guys are already working on that. They're getting the plans.
- together. One thing we do need him to help us with is, or to put together, is the north area of the
- high school, the large area on the north side, which is kind of discolored in the photograph,
- is dead flat. And we're going to have to add some drains to it. And those drains are going to be interesting
- to see how we do that.
- So we completed the cores, started the moisture testing, and we're moving on the thermal scan. We also
- need to verify the existing through wall flashings we do when we walked with Arnold. He pointed out
- at the junior high school, the high bay, which is your gym, it leaks around the perimeter of the high
- bay. That's usually a sign of water coming in through the brick.
- and not getting properly flashed out before it can enter the building. So we've got some roofing to
- do. We've also probably got some flashing to do. And our guy Russ is looking at that right now. We need
- to get another estimate to you. And Misha right now and his crew are compiling the construction drawings.
- We will probably come to you and we need to
- Check this with Misha next month for a approval to send it to bid. And I think on your website, it doesn't
- show a December board meeting, but I think it's a third Tuesday. Yeah, it'll be December 16th.
- So I'll be here in four weeks to talk about getting your permission to go ahead and bid that. Went through
- that quickly. That's what I've got for now. Again, we're going to push. And Rick's pushing us. And Rick's
- got a lot going on as far as this technology to get the kitchen and the field house to you as quickly
- as we can.
- beating on the contractors for the punch as hard as we can. So that's where we are. Thank you very much.
- Any questions? Any questions on it? Thanks so much. Thank you, Michael. Thank you, Victor, for coming
- down. Thank you very much. Good report. Next is consideration to approve the classified end book update.
- And we have Susan Charlie for that this evening. Hi. We typically don't put through classified handbook
- updates until usually the spring, but there are a couple of things that we wanted to get on the agenda
- or in the handbook. And so I took advantage of that to go ahead and gather some of the other pieces
- that we had out there that were already approved, but not in the handbook and went ahead and added that
- to that. And you can see those revisions there.
- That first list in the newly proposed revisions would just be a title change for some of the child care
- workers working that aren't actually latch key. The culinary skills specialist adding language to approve
- 11 paid leave days per year. And I did notice that I have a typo on the memo there for the part-time
- central office assistant who's working 12 months out of the year. She doesn't earn
- vacation days, but we would like to get her 12 paid leave days per year, so she has one day off per
- month if she wanted to take that. So those are the revisions, and then they're all, you can see on the
- following pages, the classified handbook, and they're highlighted there. Go ahead. Thank you. Do we
- have a motion on the handbook? I move approval of the classified handbook updates. I second.
- You can second. Any discussion?
- All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now it's consideration to approve stipends
- for support staff and Dr. Sanders is going to lead us. Yes and if you remember this kind of really goes
- back to bargaining with the teachers association and looking at where we are as a school corporation
- financially.
- and what can we do to reward people for their hard work but at the same time put ourselves in a good
- position financially to give increases down the road in terms of for the teachers step on the salary
- schedule or increase the base hourly increases.
- We want to get ourselves into a position where we could do that. So starting with the teachers,
- as you know, all the teachers will get a $2,000 one-time stipend. We're going to talk about the principals
- in a minute. But really, we looked at all of our classified staff and wanted to give them a certain
- percentage of what the teachers got.
- as a one-time stipend for the 25-26 school year. And these stipends were established through a comprehensive
- review process, which considered many factors, including each position's current rate of pay, whether
- the person was full-time or part-time, number of days worked, their duties that were assigned,
- whether their position required a licensing or certification. And in some cases, you know, we did look
- at elevated certain stipends based on that reflected the nature and scope of that position's responsibilities
- and duties. And we just then took just an overall look at it and said, and we looked at each position,
- is this fair?
- Is this appropriate? And so we share with the board what the, there's all the different positions that
- are classified and the stipend that each person would get. The board was given that information. We're
- gonna pay out all these stipends, the teachers, the administrators, classified staff,
- in a special paycheck on November 28th. And so everybody would get that stipend all at one time. I'll
- just go ahead and tell you the total cost. So for classified staff, stipend plus benefits, the total
- amount was $107,971.54. The $2,000 stipend for teachers,
- Plus benefits came to $438,141. And for administrators, they'll be getting the $2,000 stipend also,
- similar to the teachers, plus benefits came to $39,831.
- for overall total cost of $585,943.54. And this will, like I said before, the purpose of going the stipend
- route this year is to put ourselves in a really good strong position financially to move forward in
- giving increases like we traditionally have in the past.
- I appreciate the long discussion that you and Susan I had going through how that that process worked
- and I I really think that you guys did a very fair. You know you look at it and so I really appreciate
- the time it took to to do that.
- I appreciate that. And it's really a testament of how we're operating now in our office. Susan Shockley
- has just been amazing. And she did a lot of that hard work. And then we had great conversations with
- Debbie Tate and Jennifer Barrett, myself, and Paul. And it just took a very careful look at everything.
- So thanks, Dana.
- Nothing further. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. I hope they
- all enjoy November 28th. Next is consideration to approve administrative contracts. Yes, so we chose
- to go a contract. By the way, the teachers
- They sign a status quo contract at the beginning of the school year. And since there wasn't an increase
- in the base or nobody took a step, checking with Christine, the status quo contracts cover for this
- year. Except if somebody moved a column,
- based on getting their masters, specific situations like that, but most teachers will, the status quo
- contract they signed at the beginning of the year, we'll cover for this year. The principals, we give
- them a two-year contract, so we included the stipend in their contract and then extended their contract,
- not only for 25, 26 school year, but 26, 27 school year, and so,
- The administrators will be signing new contracts. It'll be for Dirk Ackerman, Jordan Key, Jenna Clark,
- Kent Retsler, John Siglin, Andy Scholl, Katie Key, Matt Wooden, Elisa Van Dusen, Heather Kenzik,
- Jerry Bland, Sam Jones, Noah Dixon, Megan Scott, Mariah Bruce, Jordan Truax, and Jennifer Barrett.
- You had to have the total for the stipends for that. Yeah, that was, I mentioned that a minute ago.
- Total for them was benefits and everything was $39,831. Perfect. Okay. Do I have a motion? Approval
- of the administrative contracts. Yeah. I'll second. Seconded. Any discussion? Dr. Sanders, is every
- minister now in the same contract, the two-year renewal?
- So everybody, even the ones that started this year, this will start another one? Somebody was hired
- to do a position to start this school year. Does that automatically kick in another year? No, it's this
- year, 25, 26, and 26, 27. Okay. All right. Thank you. Anything further? All those in favor say aye. Aye.
- Motion carries. And now we have consideration to approve the 2026-27 and 27-28 school calendars. Oh
- my goodness. Time does fly. Dr. Sanders. Yeah, there's nothing earth shattering here. They're pretty
- much the same calendar that we do every year. I'm asking you to approve the 26-27 as our official
- calendar for next year. I'm asking you to approve the 27-28 calendar as tentative because IU has not
- released their spring, 2028 spring break dates yet, so I put them where they normally would be, but
- because there could be a change, I'm calling that as a tentative contract.
- and it's been reviewed by the teachers association and our principles. I move approval of the school
- calendar. I'll second. Any discussion? I do notice that we are cutting back to the, on the teacher work
- days. Yes. Which is kind of a step backwards, but I understand why. Yes.
- Thank you for bringing that up, Larry, because I meant to mention that. Yeah, we moved up to 185 days,
- and I thought that was a really good thing for us to do for our teachers. But with the course of state
- coming in and causing us some financial issues, we're looking for ways to cut back on our expenses.
- And so that'll save going from 185
- to 183 will save us $130,000 a year. So they get two more days off, but they lose those days in pay.
- Yeah, we added those as work days just because, you know, everybody knows how hard teachers work and
- how if you're a teacher, you just know you're working evenings, weekends,
- What's that? Part of the summer and part of the summer. And it was kind of my goal to try to address
- that. I'm disappointed that we're to this point, but it just seemed like a way that we could reduce
- some expenses without hurting people too much. Okay. Receive that waiver.
- That does help with that a little bit. When we went to 185 days, that was before we started using the
- waiver for flex days. It's still not ideal. Having both was the best case scenario there. But having
- those days built in through the year for teachers to be able to receive professional development, work
- in their PLCs, curriculum development, things like that, we still have those built in. Unfortunately,
- it's just not the two extra that are usually
- beginning and some of those other things. And we also extended delayed start Wednesdays to an hour.
- Yeah. Okay. Moved and seconded. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion
- carries. Now we're on to Surplusing Used Monitors and we have our tech director Rick Broughton.
- So this evening, I brought to you the request to surplus about 50 monitors. This is what we counted.
- They are part of our capital replacement of computers for this staff. And we usually just put them in
- the recycle bin and send them off to be recycled. But there is a fee to that that's $10 per monitor.
- I'm sort of trying to offset it a little bit this time. When it's one or two, not a big deal, but when
- you're looking
- 50 monitors, that's a pretty hefty bill, so I was gonna try to put them on our government surplus site,
- try to get some money out of them, let someone else come and pick them up, get them out of our hair,
- and this'll be in two different lots because we haven't completed our process, but lot one is ready
- to go, matter of fact, I want it out of my office, and then lot two will come as soon as we get the
- other installation completed, but I figured I could just come to you with the total number of what we're trying
- So I'm just asking for your permission to surplus 50 old used monitors. I move approval of the surplusing
- of the used monitors. Move in second. Any discussion? I'm just kind of surprised we have that many monitors
- still floating around. There's more if we just haven't for the others yet. I know. I guess I do see
- them occasionally. It's almost all laptops now.
- Okay. Nothing further. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Thank you.
- Thank you. And now we will have a public hearing on additional appropriations and I'll turn that over
- to Paul Federer to get us started. I could say I'm back. I think we did this a month ago and if you
- recall it was
- I believe 600,000, and I want to spend a little time as to why we're doing this. This is unusual to
- do it a second time. But part of the problem here is that I'm not here. And that's been a little bit
- difficult in this process. When you look at your cash flow, if you find it for just a second,
- If you look down in the lower right-hand corner, where in the second to the last line it says remaining
- appropriation, and there's a $226,000 figure there, clear on the right-hand side, that's 1% of your
- budget. That's how much appropriation you have left at this point in time. That is too close for comfort.
- What typically happens when you get into November and especially December, somebody forgot to submit
- an invoice, whatever, and you spend a little more money in December than you anticipated, that might
- not cover it. My best guess is we'll be okay, but it's too close to call.
- And I don't want to get into December and have to start picking and choosing what bills we pay because
- we don't have the appropriation. So we advertised back on the 5th of November, we gave a notice to the
- paper like we did a month ago that we were going to add an additional $650,000 to this appropriation.
- So this is the resolution you'll sign tonight if you approve it.
- And we've done all that. We've waited the 10 days. So this is the evening that we would have the public
- have a chance to ask questions about it if there are any questions. And I can address that with people.
- And then after that, we'll have the resolution and pass it. My apologies for doing it twice. I didn't
- plan on that. Never have done that.
- But at the same time, I've never worked one day a week. So that's kind of where I'm at with it. And
- it'll work. You have the money. This is just a process of getting more. I think I told you a month ago,
- your budget really was too small. When you looked at $23 million in revenue and a budget of $20 million,
- that's easily a million and a half too short.
- And had it been up there at 21 million someplace in there, we wouldn't be doing this at all. So that's
- kind of why we're here. Okay. After that explanation, I will open the public hearing on additional
- appropriations. Is there anyone who would like to comment at this time? Hearing none, I will close the
- public hearing on appropriations.
- And so our next item would be to approve the additional appropriation resolution. Okay, this resolution
- I do want to read to you. I think that's proper. Whereas the proper officers of the ritual and being
- blossom Community School Corporation.
- of Monroe County, Indiana, have determined that it is now necessary to appropriate more money for the
- calendar year 2025 than the amount that was fixed by the Richland Bean Blossom Community School Corporation
- and finally determined in the annual budget under Indiana Code 6-1.1. Whereas notice was duly given
- to the public in accordance with that,
- for a public hearing on the proposed additional appropriation, and a public hearing was held on November
- 18th, 2025, by RBB. Therefore, be it resolved by the Richland Beanblossom Community School Corporation
- of Monroe County, Indiana, that a need now exists for an additional appropriation out of the following
- funds and for the purposes specified, subject to laws governing the same. So, it's coming from the Education Fund,
- It is 650,000. We may have 650,000 left at the end of the year. That's OK. There's another advantage
- to that. Now you can encumber some of that into 2026. OK. I move approval of the resolution for the
- additional appropriation. I'll second. Move it. Second. Any discussion? Thank you so much for the thorough
- explanation of that. We really appreciate it.
- So all in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Now we move on to the business manager's report.
- Back to the cash flows. I don't have a lot to say about that. I think that going forward, you know the
- appropriation problem, just pointed that out. The other problem is on the right-hand side of that.
- that education fund down toward the bottom where you see the 500, I think it's 80,000. Don't have my
- reading glass. 560. 560,000, that's in the hole. That means you've spent half a million more than we
- took in. So that's the problem here. That's the problem going forward. That gets into this two days
- you just took away because we've got to find half a million dollars.
- That's what we've got to do. And I think we can do that. We've talked about it. We've met. We're going
- to talk again. But once we get that done, this will rectify itself next year, and that number will be
- zero. Anything further? Any questions for Paul? OK. And now we move on to the assistant superintendent's report.
- The first flex day we had was a huge success. We have parent teacher conferences at EPS and EIS. I think
- I heard Mr. Shoal say in a meeting something around 95% attendance. I'm not sure from EPS. I'm not gonna
- put Alisa on the spot right now.
- But that is phenomenal. I'm sure that it's right up there at EPS as well. I think it just goes to show
- that our families are so invested in our students and their well-being, their success. So a great day
- for EPS and EIS to be able to have those conferences.
- In addition to that, we had what's called SIOP training for teachers with multi-language learners at
- EJHS and EHS. We now have close to 40 students in our district who English is not the first language
- in their home. And so that can present challenges in the classroom, especially for those students who
- do not read, write, or
- verbally comprehend English, and we have students at that level across the entire district. So we're
- working with teachers just like we would if they have special education students, they have high ability
- students, a special population of students. We're working with those teachers to provide additional
- tools to help them help our students who come from those multi-language homes to be successful. In addition
- to that, our administrators at EJHS
- as well as our instructional coaches, our coordinators there, planned ghost rounds, and that's where
- our teachers went around throughout the building. They were observing other classrooms, what was happening,
- not necessarily during instruction, but just the environment that they saw. And then at EHS,
- It was a phenomenal day of learning there. They were instructional mini-lessons based around our NASOT
- elements, our new art and science of teaching instructional framework. Many of our teachers from EHS
- actually put on mini-lessons that day for other teachers, so teachers teaching teachers, which is exactly
- what we want to see. So just an awesome day all around. And we even had a comment, and I'm not proud
- of this by any means,
- but I will tell you just how busy we kept the teachers is that the high school teachers said, could
- we get more than 20 minutes for lunch on that day? So Jordan's back there shaking his head. That was
- the biggest negative that we had was we filled that day so full and a lot of really great compliments
- as well. So we will make sure next time that we get those lunches in there because we obviously went
- overboard on our planning. But a lot of great
- great feedback from our teachers that day for sure. This is one that I've been excited. We met with
- the high school earlier this week for their monthly HRS meeting, and Dirk and Amy Winkler had just sent
- out some PSAT scores. The kids actually just took this test, 9th, 10th, and 11th graders in October.
- I want you to see the 9th graders over the last three years.
- There is a lot to be excited about here. We've talked a lot about work that we're putting in at K through
- eight. We've talked a lot about our issues five through eight in math and where we're seeing deficiencies.
- What I want you to see here is that our ninth graders for the past three years have increased these
- percentages across the board. I will say there's one little dip there from 24 to 25 with our English
- reading and writing benchmark.
- But I am not concerned about that at all, considering that we are 10% above the state average. So a
- tiny little drop there, but like I said, nothing that's concerning.
- What I want you to see is the number of students, the percentage of students who have met both benchmarks
- has climbed 10% in two years. In addition to that, when we look at math, which is an area that we're
- really focusing on in those upper grades, five through eight, it's exciting to see a 9% growth. And
- we are finally above the state average for our ninth graders in math. ELA continues to knock it out
- of the water and just climbs. So this is all good news.
- is telling us that we are heading in the right direction. We're constantly looking at these different
- data points to see if they are giving us the same information, and this is confirmation for us that
- the changes that we are making, the work that we're putting in is heading in the right direction. So
- I wanted you guys to see this because it's a big celebration across our district. We don't often get
- to see high school scores other than maybe SATs, which are also positive AP scores
- things like that. But this was a big one for us. So we'll keep diving deeper into this. And I know that
- I talked to Mr. Rentschler earlier. He's going to share this with the junior high teachers because this
- is a celebration of their work as well. So not just our high school team.
- Down below, some upcoming items. We are taking another team out to the Marzano HRS Summit. This is January
- 11th through the 14th, I should say 2026. I'm not used to writing that yet, so forgive that error there.
- We are taking seven EIS staff members and seven EJHS staff members. It's their turn to go this year.
- While they're out there,
- They will be receiving some good news, which I will not spoil that. That's on Dr. Sanders' report tonight.
- We also have the teacher appreciation grant. The TAG teacher committee is meeting this Friday to create
- the application and determine next steps. So Megan Scott is leading the charge with that team. And again,
- our goal with that is for the teachers to take the lead on that. So she's kind of guiding that work
- and helping them determine what some of those decisions should be. And they're really leading the work
- as far as making sure that the decisions they make are in the best interest of the teachers
- So we're excited to see what comes out of that meeting. And then we also have the teacher appraisal
- plan that will be coming to you in December for approval.
- It's not normal for us to bring the TAP plan to you in December. We've been waiting patiently for the
- state to give us some guidance as far as when it is due, when we need to submit to them. We are still
- waiting patiently. The state still has not asked for our teacher appraisal plan, our evaluation. So
- we're not waiting on the state anymore. We'll be getting that group together here before the end of
- this second semester, one day after school. There are not big changes to the
- the teacher side of things, but we have updated all of the rubrics. And by we, I should say Megan Scott,
- I can take zero credit for any of that. Megan has worked hours upon hours on this. She has updated every
- single rubric that we have across the district that is not a teacher rubric. So school counselors, school
- psychologists, literacy coaches, any role that is outside of a teacher, we now have a rubric that is
- aligned to their professional standards and also
- is aligned with what we created with the teachers in terms of reflection, growth, development, so that
- every single person across our district, no matter what their certificate might be, and we'll follow
- the same guidelines for evaluation. So it's a big step forward for our district. We're excited about
- that. So I'll bring that to you in December, highlight some of those areas. I'll send it to you before
- then so you guys can review that as well. It's a pretty large document.
- our teachers will meet prior to that, provide any other feedback that they may have, but like I said,
- not many changes there for the teachers and everything seems to be going pretty well this semester,
- more smoothly than it did on year one rollout, which is what you anticipate and hope for. So that's
- it for my side. Thank you.
- did want to implement a new rule that if meetings went beyond two hours, that the superintendent's report
- would be cut. But we did have a 10-minute break, so he squeaked in with under a minute. So we will talk
- about that. So we'll go to the superintendent's report. Well, sure. You don't want to miss this.
- You know, we are all obviously very proud of our school corporation. But we're not just blowing smoke.
- There is some clear,
- indicators of how much of a quality school corporation we have. One of them, we heard a report tonight
- about the marching band, not just a one-time state champion, but five-time, unheard of. I got the pleasure
- last night of attending the Lilly Scholarship finalist recognition at Fountain Square over in Bloomington.
- and got to spend some time with three just wonderful young ladies, Bella Carson, Haley Patel, and Eliana
- Vagadis. And it was really a lot of fun. They had this little activity for the students. And I'll show
- the board sometime. But you kind of stood on this little pedestal, and they had this camera go around.
- and you could put props on. And I was so honored that came over and got me, invited me to be part of
- that. And got to sit beside Haley and meet her parents. And so they are our Lilly Scholarship finalists.
- And so hopefully very soon we'll find out if one of our students actually receives the Lilly Scholarship.
- and we're looking for good news on that, just special girls. If you haven't been to the Little Mermaid
- performance at the high school, it's just fabulous in every way. The students are talented, the stage,
- the props are just, costumes are just magnificent and I know a lot of work goes into that and I just wanna
- If anybody's watching live and you haven't got your ticket, Friday and Saturday night, we're gonna go
- see it again. This Friday night, see a whole different group of students. So looking forward to that.
- And then as you know, we've been working very hard in our school corporation last few years on high
- reliability schools. And we talked about
- the idea of earning certification at these different levels. And it was just kind of like a dream, a
- vision that we had. Well, that vision's turning into reality because three of our schools
- have earned their certification for level one. Edgewood High School, Edgewood Junior High School, and
- Edgewood Intermediate School. Edgewood Primary School is not far behind. And we said from day one that
- as each school works through these different levels of certification,
- Don't be surprised if they're at different stages They're all tackling their own needs their own Vision
- for their school their school and what they want to do in the future And so each school is given permission
- to work at their own level of course EPS had a
- brand new principal and assistant principal this year. And so they're not far behind. We were meeting
- over there today and they're just about ready to get their certification. So we'll be honoring those
- three schools, the high school, the junior high, and the intermediate school in Texas in January. Tomorrow
- is our next Edgewood Business Leaders Advisory Lunch-In Meeting.
- At 1130 right here in this room, if you have some time to stop by board, please do so. We'll have plenty
- of food and we'll have obviously a standard every business leaders luncheon and meeting. It's standard
- we have some great students who give great presentations, so please come out that
- come out to that tomorrow. And then tis the season is coming up on December 13th and 14th. And so I
- think tickets might go on sale tomorrow or very soon. So be on the lookout for that. And I hear the
- 12 panes of Christmas is making a return to the high school auditorium. And so I'm getting my jokes ready.
- So if you have any good suggestions for a dad joke, pass them my way. And I'm excited to get started
- on the winter sports season and our athletic teams have just been just knocking it out of the park.
- And so looking forward to a great season. And board, if you have time afterwards and if you don't, that's
- okay. But if you have time, we'll take you over to the field house and the kitchen.
- and take a look at it yourself. Thank you. Seeing that the 12 panes of Christmas will be back, I would
- suggest to Principal Ackerman that he gets Pepto-Bismol before the show. Maybe he'll be able to fulfill
- a little bit better. Oh, you are? Yeah, I am.
- Okay, and now we have RBBEA comments and we have Brandy Abel here tonight. Good evening. I just wanted
- to start by saying just wishing
- my best to Sarah Mobley. She's been a close colleague and friend for a long time, and I know she's going
- to continue to do great things in our profession. Sad to see her go. And then kudos to Megan Scott.
- We really appreciate the changes she's made to the teacher appraisal plan, the rubrics, just much more
- user friendly. And then again, the continuous communication she provides going along with TAG. So thanks
- to Megan for that. And then finally, just in response to the calendar, that discussion, we did requests
- because again, those work days are utilized and well spent just for administration to continue to consider
- how they structure that first day of school, thinking ahead to things that could be held off later to
- provide teachers just that time to get ready before that first day of school. So I'm sure there will
- be continued discussion on that. That's all I have. Thank you. And so board member Cummings, we'll start
- with Mr. Durnall. Thank you, sir. Just congratulations to the band again. Fantastic. Five time, four
- time straight. Unbelievable.
- Yeah, I'm excited about the basketball, girls and boys, and boys and girls wrestling, gymnastics, and
- boys and girls swimming, diving. So I was just thinking, sitting here, listening to all this stuff.
- In August of 2000, I came on the board and I was really excited about it. And I'm still excited now
- in November of 2025. So I appreciate you all. Mr. DeMoss.
- Just thinking about August 2000, it would have been a couple months after that that the Marching Mustangs
- made their first appearance in the ISMA finals. And what they've done since then is truly remarkable,
- yeah. I want to thank the folks for the donations. It's always appreciated. Yeah, the Marching Mustangs
- are just incredible.
- I'm excited about the level one HRS certification at EIS and the junior high and high school. I got
- to see kind of how that works.
- on the ground. I got to do two more field trips with our high school students, one to IU Health and
- one to Boston Scientific. And I'm continually amazed by and so impressed and so proud of our students.
- They present themselves so well and represent our school so well. And yeah, and as we go through the
- change of seasons, both weather and sports seasons, and yeah, once the
- band has gone to ISMA. Now they've got the winter percussion and all the other stuff there. It's nonstop,
- but it's just so exciting and so fun. So that's all. Awesome. Mr. Harper. Again, kudos to the marching
- band and the seniors at four straight years. That's amazing. And that anticipation, like Mr. Wells said,
- when they're waiting for that last call, that's exciting for those kids. And especially for the freshmen
- this year,
- probably the first time they've been in Luke as well, which is pretty cool. So the excitement for those
- kids. So thanks to the Teachers Association for working on the TAG grant. Hopefully that all can work
- out well and the application process goes smoothly. And kudos to the three of the four schools thus
- far getting the HRS level one. And I look forward to EPS coming up next on that. So thank you.
- Thank you. I can only just.
- echo what everybody else has said. But I wanted to focus today and say that I'm thankful for all of
- you. I'm thankful for this board. I'm thankful for our administration. I'm thankful for our families
- in this community and our students. And we've got so much to offer, and it's because
- We all work together to get it done. And so I'm just very thankful for all of you, very thankful for
- our council, very thankful to Katz and keeping us going tonight on this. So with that, wish you all
- happy Thanksgiving, and this meeting is adjourned.