Board approves consent agenda, financial summary, claims and personnel actions; one member abstains from consent vote

The Plainfield Community School Corp. board approved its consent agenda, the financial summary and fund transfers, claims and personnel recommendations at the meeting.

The consent agenda listed minutes for the Feb. 13 work session and regular meeting, donations, field trips and camps, obsolete equipment or technology, a resolution for supplemental pay for certified staff tied to an early literacy grant, a resolution for classified pay tied to an early literacy grant, an addendum to an agreement for summer school courses, and approvals tied to the Brentwood Refresh project including paint, flooring and a construction advisor. The consent agenda also included approval of a change order for the Plainfield High School pool HVAC project. A board member said they would abstain from the consent vote because they had been absent at the February meeting; the board subsequently approved the consent items.

The financial summary for the month ended Feb. 28, 2025, was presented. After two months of the fiscal year, the district reported being 16.7% of the way through the 2025 budget overall; the education fund showed 16.7% spent and the operations fund showed 15.8% spent. The district reported transferring $416,958 between the education fund and the operations fund. Cash balance at the end of the month was reported as $30,881,270 and interest income for February was reported as $81,688.

The presenter drew attention to several payments in the docket: a single SRO services payment that appears in two lines because part of the payment (the first $81,000) was covered by a school safety grant and the remainder was paid from operations funds; regular payments to Stratus Building Solutions for evening custodial coverage; a quarterly property, casualty and liability insurance payment to Epic Insurance; payments to CSO Architects and Garmon and Son tied to the pool HVAC replacement project; and a payment to Ryan Fire Protection related to an update of the high school fire alarm system and panel.

Claims numbered 68366 through 68603 were included in the packet and approved. Personnel recommendations on the meeting's personnel schedule were approved as presented.

No formal vote tallies for "yes" or "no" were recorded in the transcript beyond the stated abstention; approvals were announced by voice vote. No additional conditions or amendments to the consent items were recorded during the meeting.