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Tri Creek board elects officers, approves consent agenda, change orders and donations
Summary
The board reorganized (elected Katie president, Kyle vice president, Robert secretary, Dana treasurer and Kelly Meixella deputy treasurer), approved minutes, personnel, trips, change orders including a $125,104 water-main vault and $70,706 smart siding, and accepted donations totaling more than $118,000.
At its Jan. 9 meeting the Tri Creek School Corporation Board of Trustees completed reorganization elections and approved a slate of consent items, contracts and donations.
Why it matters: the elections set leadership for the year; the consent approvals include construction change orders and capital-related expenditures that affect project budgets and schedules; donations and student trips have direct operational and student-impact implications.
Board organization: trustees nominated and confirmed officers for 2025. Katie was nominated and approved as board president; Kyle was nominated and approved as vice president; Robert (Bobby) was nominated and approved as secretary. The board also reappointed Nate as the NYSEK board representative. Trustees nominated and approved Dana as corporation treasurer and Kelly Meixella as deputy treasurer.
Votes at a glance: the board recorded a series of motions that passed by voice vote (individual tallies were not specified in the transcript). Key approvals included:
• Approve minutes of the Dec. 12, 2024 meeting and payroll and claims — motion passed.
• Approve the personnel report dated Jan. 9, 2025 — motion passed.
• Approve the 2025 Tri Creek School Board meeting schedule (reducing regular meetings to one per month, typically the second Thursday) — motion passed.
• Authorize administration to declare specific furniture and equipment outdated and dispose of it at auction — motion passed; some items were donated to NYSEK.
• Approve overnight study trip for Lowell High School Red Devil Manufacturing students to Vincennes University Technology Center, Feb. 21–22, 2025 — motion passed.
• Approve overnight athletic trips for Lowell High School wrestling teams: ISWCA team state duels Jan. 10–11, 2025, and regional competitions Jan. 9–10, 2025 (girls inaugural team) — motions passed.
• Ratify change order for Goff Inc. to provide a water main vault to the North Star and maintenance building as required by code and law — $125,104 — ratified.
• Approve change order to provide smart siding for dugouts and a tennis platform — $70,706 — approved.
• Accept annual conflict-of-interest disclosures for multiple administrators, including Dagenot Bogathe (executive director of business operations), Jay Blackman (director of educational technology), Kevin Diehl (director of curriculum, instruction and assessment) and Lisa Stold (Lake Prairie Elementary principal) — motions passed.
• Accept 16 donations including a combined reported total of more than $118,000 in community donations and multiple smaller gifts to the Feed Them Forward fund and school PTOs — motion passed.
Several motions were made and seconded on the record; most votes were approved by voice vote with “aye” recorded and no roll-call tallies published in the minutes included in the transcript.
Trustees also heard a public comment from Marty Tuttle thanking the board for support of arts and music programming. The board adjourned and convened immediately into its Board of Finance meeting to organize that board by election of president and secretary as prescribed by Indiana statute.
