Heartland Christian School Regular Board Meeting

In attendance:

Board Members: Jeremy Kersenbrock, Nate Harter, Kevin Cox

Others: Larry Gabel, Christy Sturdy, Morgan Owen, Kasey Griffith, Deena Bandy, Lona Donley

Call to Order/Opening Prayer

The meeting was called to order at 7:02 by Jeremy, who opened with a devotion from Ephesians 5:15-20 and Kevin led prayer.

Amendments to Agenda

Nate made a motion to approve the agenda as presented. Jeremy seconded the motion; with no further discussion, the motion passed unanimously.

Approval of Previous Months Minutes

Nate made a motion to accept August minutes as they were sent out. Kevin seconded the motion; with no further discussion, the motion passed unanimously.

Approval of Previous Month’s Financial Statement

Nate made a motion to approve the August Financial Statement as sent out. Kevin seconded the motion; with no further discussion, the motion passed unanimously.

Reports:

Teachers: Lona shared that they started PE today.

Families: No Report.

Kasey: Kasey shared that for Volleyball she is need 1 more official, Jr High first game is coming up, the High School has had 4 games so far and they are doing a great job so far this year playing with the homeschool group. Our first home game is with Western Plains. There was meat that was donated for the concessions, they are looking for a cheap toaster oven, and they are going to Sam’s to stock up on items for the concession stand. The league is discussing adding golf to the sports. The buttons have brought in $150 so far. She is going to pick up game balls and they are $75-$100 each. We still need coaches for Basketball. Deena shared that we have a toaster oven that will not work with our current plugs. Kasey shared that they still need a High School Scholars Bowl coach. Kasey asked if we want to proceed with purchasing new score boards with shot clocks. Next year we will have to have a shot clock to play league games for High School.

Deena: Deena shared that she sent an email to all the families with all of the upcoming activities. Spirit Wear items are selling and we get a percentage of those sells back. School Pictures are coming up in September, and we are doing our Hope meeting on September 24th. There will be a sign up sheet for sides for that meal. She is working with Cheney’s to get pumpkins for kids that night. She sent out information for the School Campout. She sent the Board a video clip on the ACSI Flourishing Families initiative.

Technology: Larry shared that he emailed Joel today because the doorbell is not working. Joel has run wires for the Art Room and is looking at getting wires to the Music Room.

Administrator: Larry shared that the Fire Alarm specialist was here today, he now has to come twice a year, and he said everything looks great. We received the bill from the city on water and electricity, and it came in higher than it has been in the past. Larry sent out a thank you in the Friday update to everyone who helped during the workdays. A lot of work was done to the school, and it is very appreciated. There is school this Friday. There has been a lot of responses to go to the Teacher Conference on the week of Thanksgiving.

Bookkeeper: Christy shared that the Thomas County Community Foundation will be having another Match Day in December. The City Bill went up by over $900 this month. The Golf Tournament with all the pledged donations, made about $12,500. She is working on getting the invoices and thank you cards sent out.

Fundraising Committee: The first BBQ is coming up fast.

Classroom Renovation Committee: Larry shared that most of the renovations are done, there is a little painting that needs to be done. The only thing that hasn’t been done is splitting the Flex Classroom and organizing the gym room.

Old Business

Summer Projects-Summary: Discussed in reports.

Golf Tournament Report: Thank you to everyone who helped and participated. It was a lot of fun.

Possibility of splitting 5th & 6th Grades: According to Board Policy, our class capacity should be 18 or less for a combined grade. There are 9 5th and 9 6th graders. Larry shared that we could split at the quarter. The base pay for salary is $23,000. He has a lead on a possibly teacher with experience that sent in an application. He asked that the Board prayerfully consider splitting this class. There are only 2 4th grade students. They might have to split different classes other years. Jeremy questions if there was space for a separate class, and Larry shared that the flex room would be able to be used for this. Deena shared that they have also talked about having 3 full time teachers teaching the 4 classes and breaking them out in groups in scheduled classes.

New Business

Dyslexia Class Offered November 5th 6:00-8:30 & November 6th 9-Noon: Lona shared flyers and information for the class for approval before it is sent out. Kasey talked to AD’s at their meeting, and they all wanted more information. Lona shared that she has had lots of responses on Facebook from parents and teachers. Lona shared that someone has volunteered to pay for this class to get it here so we can offer it free of charge to everyone. This will be the same presentation twice, so people can come to one and not the other.

Teacher Training on 11-23-26 (Wichita or Hutchinson): Many teachers have shown interest in this. Larry states that he is hoping to get the tuition covered for the teachers that want to attend.

8:20PM - Dr Tiffany Evans arrives for her presentation to follow.

Board Member Qualification Exemption: Jeremy asked that this be tabled until the next meeting. The Board tabled it.

Executive Session

The board entered the executive session to discuss non-elected personnel at 8:25 with the Board, Larry, and Dr. Tiffany Evans present.

Regular session resumed at 10:00 with no binding action

taken.

Adjourn

Nate moved to adjourn. Kevin seconded the motion. The meeting adjourned at 10:03.