Community Room, 817 South Main Street, Tipton, IN 46072
Tuesday, January 13
- 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Growing empowered, future-ready students, prepared for a lifetime of opportunity and success.
At this time, the Board of Trustees will elect officers for President, Vice President, and Secretary for 2026. Candidates must be nominated, then seconded, approved by a majority of the Board of School Trustees.
At this time, the chair will accept nominations for Board President; Do we have a second? All those in favor signify by saying aye, opposed?
At this time, the chair will accept nominations for Board Vice-President; Do we have a second? All those in favor signify by saying aye, opposed?
At this time, the chair will accept nominations for Secretary; Do we have a second? All those in favor signify by saying aye, opposed?
It is recommended that Brook Cleaver be appointed as the Treasurer, and Dawn Benefiel as the Executive Secretary of the Board.
It is recommended that we maintain our current meeting date and time of the second Tuesday of each month at 6:30 PM.
The Board will recess from the Regular Business Meeting for the purpose of conducting a brief Board of Finance Meeting. Do I have a motion for recess?
Valerie Boyd, Erica Hawkins, Madison Holloway, Josh Ireland, Mara Isenhower, Jenna Smith, NaTasha Surface, Ashley Winn-TES Kindergarten Team Praise from Indianapolis Children's Museum
Diane Mast and Missy Henry-iLearn Checkpoint 1 Opportunity 2
THS Guidance Department, Staff, and Administration-THS Class of 2025 Graduation Rate
Approval of the Agenda
Approval of Minutes
Approval of Claims
Approval of Personnel Report
Approval of Field Trips (Overnight and/or Out-of-State)
Approval to Accept Donations
The remainder of our fall property tax distribution was received on December 11th. The debt service portion totaled $304,504.74, along with the operation’s share totaling $298,156.92. The State Board of Accounts withheld the 2022-24 audit fees totaling $50,752.97 from the property tax distribution, impacting the operations fund. We received $222,857.92 for license excise taxes, which was split to debt service ($104,357) and operations (118,500.92). Financial institution taxes were received totaling $26,318 and deposited into the operations fund. Note for the future, FIT and CVET proceeds are no longer permitted to be deposited into the debt service fund per SBOA & the DLGF. For the year, we transferred $525,000 from education to operations and ended the year with the following balances:
Education - $1,023,027.99
Operations - $1,207,374.12
Debt Service - $532,748.57 (debt service payments were issued on 12/29 totaling $2,007,025)
Rainy Day - $2,035,833.41
Interest for the year totaled $268,770.62
The following policies are for second reading and adoption of Batch #10 Policies and the retirement of the corresponding NEOLA policies.
G425 Pledge of Allegiance Moments of Silence
G450 Advertising, Sponsorship, and Naming Rights
G475 Prohibition of Unmanned Aircraft
G500 Intellectual Property Ownership and Revenue
H125 Corporation Support Organizations
H150 Public Records
H175 Questioning of Students
H200 Relations with Special Interest Groups
Retired NEOLA Policies: Policy 8800, Policy 9700.01, Policy 7440.03, Policy 9211, Policy 8310, Policy 5540, and Policy 9700
As of January 1, 2026, the federal mileage rate reimbursement increased 2.5 cents to 72.5 cents a mile. This is the rate TCSC employees can use to reimburse travel related to professional development and meetings not held on the TCSC campus. The recommendation before you is to increase the TCSC mileage reimbursement to the 2026 federal rate of 72.5 cents per mile.
Indiana Code 35-44-1-1-4 requires the Board of School Trustees annually sign, approve, and submit the Uniform Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statement. It is recommended the Board of School Trustees approve the Uniform Conflict of Interest Disclosure Statements completed by Tami Brown, Andrea Campbell, Robert Cochrane, Jennifer Humrichous, Kim Fague, Beth Woelfert, and Eric Underwood.
During the our work session the board heard the recommendation of the Expense Review and Reduction Committee regarding the implementation of participation fees to cover transportation costs due to revenue lost from the implementation SEA1 2025. We are recommending two fees a Fixed Participation Fee for Co-curricular and Extra Curricular Activities effective July 1 and a Field Trip Fee for Curricular Activities effective February 1. Included in your packet is a memo outlining how fees are assessed and amounts.
With growing shortages of athletic officials at all levels, IHSAA is encouraging high schools to offer officiating classes and certifications to fill the needed positions. At the end of the fall semester, announcements were made to gauge interest in the class. The result were18 students with interested in completing the officiating course at THS beginning second semester. The course will be taught by Mr. Vester. Mr. Leach in here to answer questions regarding the class and curriculum offered by RefReps. It is recommended the board approve the class for the second semester of the 2025-2026 school year.
Expense, Reduction, and Review Committee Meeting-January 19, 2026 at Noon
January 19-MLK Day-No School
January 19-Expense, Reduction, and Review Committee Meeting-Noon
January 26-School Board Executive Session, 5:30 PM
February 9-Staff PD Day-No Students
February 10-Monthly Board Meeting
February 16-President's Day-No School