001We do. You're live. >> Good morning everybody. Welcome to the August 7th Anthony Board of Education meeting. Gary, can you please call role? >> Mr. Ben? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hapcommire? >> Yes. >> Miss Mcnite? >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. Stam? >> Yes. >> Can we please rise for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance 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 right, moving on to item number two is the board of education minutes from last month. Any board members have any questions, comments, concerns, changes? If not, I need a motion. Shelley move. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. >> Lindsay seconds. Carry when
002you're ready. >> Mr. Ben, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hopkcomer, >> yes. >> Mcnite, >> yes. >> Mr. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. St. >> Yes. >> Uh, moving on to subject B is the resignation and remployee of our treasurer, Carrie. Uh, do we have any motions to allow the retire rehire? >> I will. >> All right. Shelley moves. Do I have a second? And Mike seconds. >> Carry when you're ready. >> Mr. Ben, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hakamire, >> yes. >> Miss Mcnite, >> yes. >> Mr. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Stamp. >> Yes. >> And item number three is moving on to our newly hired treasurer. >> No, newly retired. >> Newly retired. I'm sorry. >> Thank you. Um, first item on the agenda is to approve the monthly financials for the month of
003July of 2025 as presented. Under item B, I ask that you approve the donations as presented. Um, would like to highlight that we received $37,000 from Don Shaler. This will be to help us get our foundation up and off the ground that we are establishing here for Anthony Wayne. And I'm going to be sharing a little bit more about that um in my section, but um it wouldn't been possible without this donation. >> Yes, this will provide us to enter into an agreement, which I'll ask the board that they approve that next um uh to make that happen. And then we received a $4,000 donation from the AWPTA. So, the mural in the junior high has been updated and it's super nice. So um would like you know draw your attention to that sometime. So
004uh moving on to item C is the recommendation for you to approve the contract with Shift Consulting. This will be effective 8:15 through April 1st and the cost of that is $31,500. And then item D is to approve. This is an annual motion kind of somewhat new. It's our investments that took place last fiscal year. So f July 1 of 24 through June 30th of 25. These are commercial paper and banker acceptance notes. Even though we have treasury notes and all kinds of other things. Um we have to report these both to the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and to the auditor state. So once you approve them, I submit a letter and attach this and I email both of those on to those departments. So the board could approve those. Uh, next item
005on the agenda is to approve the federal program grants that we have received thus far. Um, the first one I did want to change. It's title one. That amount just got an email this morning. It's been updated to $316,32040. Um this is we haven't received our title two, title three and title four which is um our high quality education teacher um that we pay or grant that we pay one teacher out of. Um title two or excuse me title three is leap limited English profession that um that's a smaller grant. and it's like 4,500. We haven't gotten that. And then we haven't gotten title four. Those amounts or those grants amount to about $110,000. This is due to that elimination of the federal department of education and filtering down into the Ohio Department of Education.
006Um they do expect those, but we have not received allocations. At one point they did have allocations in the new grant document but um they have removed those to zero at this time. So hopefully we will get those. The title 4 um is used to pay for our security at Monlova Primary. So um you know and like I said it's around $110,000 that we would be losing but we're hopeful we're going to get those dollars. So that's why you're only improving um title one IDA in our preschool grant which is part of a consortium. And then the last item I have is to approve the disposal for Monloa Primary or excuse me Mlo Christian Academy per their letter dated July 30th. They had some additional items since we have a we hold the auxiliary funds
007they go through us. It's a zero transaction, but because those funds flow through the district and go to the ESC, um, we have to approve their letter for disposal. They you approved it last month, too, but they missed a couple items. So, then I just have a couple things I want to share. I shared a lot in my update yesterday. Um, have some relief with the bienium budget. Nothing changing there as far as our funding as of right now. we'll see a slight increase. But as far as, you know, the governor vetoing some of the things that came out of the general assembly, um, and then the house acting to override on the veto, the Senate has done nothing. So, at this point, it's kind of died. The only unsettling thing, and this is nothing
008new, but the general assembly can um override any of those vetos anytime during >> the next two years, the benium budget. So, through December of 26, basically that hangs over our heads. So, we'll just hope that, you know, stays off the radar. Um, and the the other date was a change in the five-year forecast going to a they call it a three-year forecast, but it's current year plus three, which is four years because right now it's current year plus four, but so that's a change, too. So, I shared the Moody's presentation that Kevin and I had this week um due to the refunding that we are doing on some of our bonds that um built White House Primary and renovated all the buildings and did some deferred maintenance projects. Um it's like refinancing your house.
009So, we were trying to upgrade our credit score, so to speak. Um, we have been downgraded. We were downgraded last year to an A1 and that is due to our cash balance in the district and we were somewhat excited to um prepare our or to share our presentation this year because I had some some great news that came out of the finally the nexus settlement has been resolved. So last year, well going back to 2020, gosh, is it 21? I have to look. Yeah, 20. We started off in Nexus receiving in fiscal year 20 receiving 1.2 million. 21 we received 1.8 million. 22 we received 2.1 million. In 23, they paid $920,000. And we had roughly 1.8 estimated in our five-year forecast. So that's kind of when things >> started to change for us. Um
010they haven't paid last year they paid one in fiscal year 24 I should say two years ago now they paid 1.3 and then last year in fiscal year 25 we got some of the payments that they started to make um that ca that resulted in the settlement. So we got um last year we got 2.1 which we accounted about $700,000 out of that from part of the settlement. Then in April they did pay roughly $2.3 million and as of today they owe zero in all three of their parcels that fall within the Anthony Wayne School District. So this year, um, we will receive from Nexus $5.5 million. Wow. >> And there's 2.3 is basically the settlement. So initially, way back when this first started, we were supposed to get like five, $6 million a year.
011You remember that? And that might be new to some people. Um, and that include included the compressor station. So, it was really hard for us to determine what we were going to get. But now, if you log on to Aries and look up any of their parcels, you can see what their value is valued at and what their taxes are. So, each year moving forward and initially when this was implemented and there will be some depreciation because that's how it works for public utility. We don't know what that is, but it it's around 200,000 a year, but we will we're received the 2.3 this year from the settlement. And then we will receive they they paid their July payment on July 31st, right when it was due of 1,590,978. We will get that again in
012January. So this is all part of the current fiscal year. And that's another$1 point almost $6 million. >> We receive that from the auditor's office. It first gets paid to the auditor's office and then when we receive our uh >> settlement that >> Yeah. It comes in like taxes due. It's part of our real estate payment. >> And so right now it's at the auditor's office. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. It's been s a lot of it's other than what they just paid the rest of it the other two million it's been sitting there since April collecting interest with them. So that's been that's settled well. But um so we'll receive 5.5 million this year and roughly 3.1 um each year thereafter. So this has a very positive impact on the five-year forecast. So it's taken
013several years um to get here, but I I we are we are to the point where it is resolved and the district is being made whole. we're receiving the money. We should supposedly it's in the agreement that they cannot contest their values for five years. Um I'm not a 100% sure that's accurate. So I'm working on that. That is what the auditor's office told me. Um I did reach out to our attorney to confirm that, but the auditor's office has been very helpful in getting to this point finally. So, um I'm very pleased to share that and um I'm looking forward to sharing the five-year forecast. Um we'll be working on that here um next month because it's due October 15th this year. So, the board will need to approve that. I'll have to look
014at our meetings, but we might have to approve that in September. So, uh, we'll be getting to that point, but we will be almost within our 60 to 90day, um, true cash days or cash balance days. We're we're not there yet, but we're going to be close. We're going to be closer to 60 days than we have been in probably eight years. Something I shared though yesterday with our administrative team is um you know we did have one of the lowest carryovers uh across the state and uh certainly weren't comfortable with the amount of carryover that we had and so we will continue um we're going to continue to be fiscally responsible. We're going to continue um to operate very conservatively and work towards building um up some of that uh carryover so that we
015can be more comfortable with with what we have. Um it certainly isn't going to answer all problems, but it but you know it's it's going to make us feel much more comfortable. >> That is all I have. So, the uh the title one um dollars, does that come from the state now as well? >> Yeah, all all of our federal programs come through the state. >> They always, >> but they're federal dollars. They come from the federal to the state and they're paid through us through ODO. >> Okay. And how has that changed uh with the department of >> Well, because they're trying to eliminate the department of education overall. Yeah. >> And they've made some changes at the federal level and it's filtering down into the the state level. >> Okay. >> So, they
016have not at the federal level released >> those dollars for those other grants, which there are smaller grants. So, I'm grateful. Um overall just within the grants that you're approving today um we pay about 15 teaching positions through those >> through the title one >> through title one and IDEIDA. So those aren't you know we would hate to lose that money. >> Yeah. >> So >> um how much can you give an estimate of the total money for the title two three and four? It's around 110,000 between it's total to >> total like title 2 is around 79,000 leap title three is 4500 this is based on last year's numbers and then uh title 4 was 27,000. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions for Carrie? If not, I need a motion to approve. >>
017I will move. >> Mike moves. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. carry when you're ready. >> Mr. Ben, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hapcommayer, >> yes. >> Miss Mcnite, >> yes. >> Mr. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Sam, >> yes. >> All right. Item number four, superintendent's education report. >> Um, something that we do not have on uh the agenda, but I want to share is yesterday we did have our administrative retreat. Um, we had all of the administrators um attend. Uh, we went to the 180th. Um, it was a it was a great opportunity for everyone. um we really focused on the goals that the administrators um will be you know focusing on this year and and to work to build team uh and so forth. But we also then had the opportunity
018uh to tour um the facilities. Uh we got to see some jets take off. uh we had the opportunity to have uh Colonel Vultz uh share with us kind of what goes into a day um and the importance of every team member in or you know in order to make every mission successful and so forth. And so um it was a great day I believe um and uh we worked uh well together. We had a great day. We um you know learned you know about different things, different topics. We had a presentation on the parent bill of rights um that was presented uh by an attorney. Uh we talked about again what our goals are going to be and and you know how to move forward in the year and I believe that it was
019uh valuable to everyone and uh so we appreciate having that day for all of us to get together to be able to do that. So I next wanted to um introduce uh Brad. Oh, one other thing that I will share about that because we have built a partnership with the 180th, they are actually going to uh use our facilities in either late October or November uh for some training that they need to do. They're going to use the auditorium and so we're able to reciprocate and uh very happy about the opportunity and the partnership that we're kind of building with them. So, next I'd like to introduce Brad Kat, director of human resources. He is going to introduce our new staff members. >> Yep. >> I've got them. >> Well, as he pulls this up,
020you know, obviously I would like to start off, you know, part of our mission is to make sure we have individuals that are high quality in front of our students and working in our district on a daily basis. Um, and to get to this, thank you. get to this point today. It takes a lot of time and effort from a lot of people uh just to get to today to get people up and running. So, I al also like to thank the administrators, the teachers, uh Jill, everybody who's involved through this hiring process. It's quite a bit. Um so, yeah, just want to say thank you to everybody. So, we'll get moving here quickly. Um you can move to the next one for some of our new Welcome to Anthony Wayne. um some of our
021new certified staff. If we want to go to the next slide first, we'll start off with Waterville. Jessica Gast. Jessica wants to stand up. Jessica um first year teacher, really excited to have her. She uh is coming from the University of Finley and is from Parisburg, Ohio, and she will be an intervention specialist at Waterville. So, welcome to Jessica. Cayanne Batanian. Cayanne is here with us. Um, she'll be teaching sixth grade science and social studies at Fallen Timbers. She went to Ohio University and hails from Cleveland, Ohio. She has 10 plus years of experience and was most recently um at Swanton Middle School. All right, Lee Pankost, also at Fallen Timber. She's the new assistant principal. Um, Lee originally went to the University of Toledo and is from Swatan, Ohio. She has 20 plus years
022of uh experience and was most recently the principal at Swanton Middle School. At our junior high, we have Tom Berzine. He will be teaching PE and health. Um was uh at the University of Toledo and hails from Long Island, New York, played football at UT. Um he has 10 plus years of experience and most recently was teaching at Genanoa Middle School. Emily Guywitz. Um she will be teaching eighth grade science, went to Bowling Green, is originally from Mommy, Ohio. She has five plus years of experience. Was most recently at Tucker Creek Middle School in North Carolina. However, previous to that was with us at Fallen Timbers Middle School. Um was transferred to North Carolina um due to a military transfer with her new husband. Um and we're lucky to have her back here at the
023district. And as I always like to note, um Emily is an Anthony Wayne alum. Um, so it's always a great pride for us to have somebody who's come through our district and wants to stay with us and be an educator. So we're excited to have her back with us. And John Burke, he is our new high school principal. Um, he went to Xavier University and is from St. Mary's, Ohio. Uh, he has over 15 years of experience and most recently was the superintendent at Pike Delta York. We're really excited. I know you had a coffee chat this morning. We were >> walking those openings with some staff. Oh, awesome. Good. >> No, it's all great. I'm glad. Um, and then Megan Rowan, don't believe Megan was able to make it the this morning, but she's
024an intervention specialist at the uh high school and she went to Bowling Green State University, was originally from Parisburg, Ohio. Um, she has four years of experience and most recently was in South Carolina at Paul Knox Middle School. Um, so yeah, we'd like to welcome all of our our new certified staff members this year. here. If you want to give him a round of applause, welcome you to Anthony Wayne. We're excited to have you. If we can grab you all very quickly for a quick snapshot, that'd be fantastic. You got to head over to the wall with uh Rebecca. She's going to grab a picture of everybody. [Laughter] And I would have just like to welcome you as well. We're very excited to have you as part of our family and uh look forward to
025uh interacting with you throughout the year. Next, I'd like to share a little bit um about uh the donation that we received and what we're going to be able to do through it. Um, I do want to say we have Lisa Sheller here representing Don. Um, and want to publicly thank them for for the donation and the opportunity uh to begin uh creating a foundation and and the purpose of a foundation is basically to raise and manage private donations uh to help support projects, programs uh and opportunities that otherwise would not be possible. And that's due to uh limited funding that we that we have. Uh we're working uh to also uh promote those alumni members and individuals that have a love for the district and uh kind of build uh relationships with them and
026and networking with them to become uh more involved as an alumni and to be able to uh you know kind of think for some of the things that they've uh see what they've been able to accomplish throughout the years um in their careers and so forth. So, we're looking forward to uh being able to do these things uh through this. Uh again, we're at the point right now we did receive I want to make it clear that we received those funds in order to enter into um the contract in order to have a consultant work with us. Uh that is in order to create the uh 501c3. that is in order to create the bylaws and start to get the the board um on you know on board. Uh we are working to right now
027to talk to individuals that have shown interest but this but this will be a separate entity from the school. um the money that goes into the foundation again uh that once they have a board and they have a treasurer and so forth there will be a separate account uh set up and um the reason that this donation is going through the board is because the board has agreed to move forward with this and to allow um a foundation to be created. Uh we are calling it at this time um because we do have education foundations, we have so many support organizations. Uh at this time we are calling it uh generals for generations uh because we believe that it's a way of connecting um our students that we currently have in the schools and the
028and the um students that we'll have in the future along with those that have gone through uh for generations. And so it's just a way to take pride in this community and and in this school district. Through that uh we are working to establish as I said areas in the academics uh the arts, athletics and then an endowment. Uh and we will have people that represent all those areas on the board. We at this time um have been meeting with individuals as I shared. I do believe that uh we're working toward um getting a person that would be president of the first board and uh we're getting close to having um him agree to do that. Um and then other members and then other members uh that would we were going to start connecting with
029one-on-one and so forth. Um the one thing I'm very appreciative of is having the opportunity to be able to have the time to have some of these conversations and meet with these people. Um that is because of um you this year hiring uh Dr. Feffley in the assistant position. Um it's going to free up some of the time to do that. Um the goal for one of the goals for the year um is to really build those relationships in the community u make community um partnerships and connections and so forth. And uh so we're going to try to spend um a lot of my time um externally doing that along with um being able to have then Dr. Feffili uh work internally with everyone. um knowing how everything is though I will still have a
030very strong connection um in the schools and so forth because that is where uh my joy is and that is um you know supporting the great administrators and the great team and the staff and students and so forth that's that's where u the true joy is in education. So I uh do believe that we are moving along nicely. Uh we are going to be after we get some of these individuals um interested, we're going to have a time for them to be able to learn more about what we're hoping to do and would include all of you. Want you to be a part of that also to be able to um you know work in tandem and with the with the uh foundation board. Any questions that I'd be able to answer as far as
031where we are at this time? All right. Um then I will go ahead and move forward. Um the next that I would like to share is a memorandum of understanding and the SRO contract. I as we're talking about partnerships and as we're talking about um you know supporting one another and uh this community and how great it is, a group that plays a very big part in that is our uh White House Police Department. We have uh Chief Bayer and Lieutenant Baker with us uh today. Uh we've been working with them uh in order to provide the resource officers at the junior high in the high school. Um but I I would have to share even more than that. We have a uh you know understanding that if there's any time in the day that
032we're needed that they're needed. Um they contact us, we contact them, and we know that they're going to be there for us. And so I want to publicly uh thank them as well. Uh their service uh to this district is amazing. Uh and you know knowing that we can always count on them. I feel the same way uh with the Waterville uh police department. They are always right there. Um along with the sheriff's department. We do with Monlova uh falls into the sheriff's department and and we have good relationships with them also. So very thankful uh for all of these uh in order to help keep our students safe and and provide a safe environment for all that are on c you know all of our campuses. Uh see we have our overnight trips. Uh
033we just have one trip of a volleyball as we shared uh we're into that season of camps and travel and so forth. And so the volleyball um team, they will be going to an invitational tournament in Columbus. Wanted to share that with you. And then you'll notice in section D, we have several educational agreements. Uh the first one being uh interpreting services uh contract for interpreting services. So that is for uh students that come in that are limited in uh English and we're able to then uh assist them in different ways through having an interpreter work with them or uh with their families. We also have then uh transportation or educational uh contracts that all have to do with students that are on IEPs. And these contracts help us uh meet the requirements of their
034IEPs. in in section E uh supplemental text. I do want to make one correction. Uh the first supplemental text is not heroes. It is project P R OJ KT uh 1065 that is the title and then the other one is prisoner as listed. So, those are supplemental texts that um they would like to use uh in the eighth grade ELA course. Just a little bit about uh F, as you can see, um we have to every year approve all of the bus routes. The work that goes into creating those bus routes is unbelievable. And everyone believes that um we have a system that you just put your name in and then it gets routed. There is so much work that goes into it. And then when you add um you know maybe uh an individual
035three days a week is being um dropped off here and then have alternate transportation for two days a week and so forth and putting all those adjustments in. It is um a huge um undertaking especially when you have approximately 4,240 writers. Um those are the number of students that are routed into the system. Uh we do have uh 34 morning and afternoon routes. Uh we have two van routes. Uh those are routes that would go to pick up someone from special education or we do have some that are taken uh to Archable uh for uh they they have deaf uh they're deaf and they go uh for uh instruction there. And then we have eight midday routes. So we have um every day all of those out on the road and so we are very
036thankful for uh the transportation department and the work they do to have us ready. Uh we try to have all of that information available to our uh parents uh by open house and so forth. they did bid on the routes and so the only thing that I will mention is that we did there are um different some of the routes have different buses assigned to them uh than in the past. What we recognized is that some of our newer buses we were get um putting a lot of miles on um and some of our older buses we weren't getting as many miles on. And so try to work all that out and to even out the mileage that all the buses um having put on them, we did adjust like what uh bus number would
037be doing what bus route. Um we're going to try to get that out to parents because what we don't want is um a bus stopping and they're like that's not my bus number. Um and it's just been changed this year. So, we'll be making sure to communicate all that, but it is important to to recognize that uh you know, the bus numbers have changed from the routes last year. And um if you do not have any questions on those sections, turn it over to Kyle. >> First, I'll welcome everybody, all the new people for for joining Anthony Wayne. We're happy to have you. Lieutenant Baker, it's good to see you. I haven't seen you since uh when I was in high school. with my SRO. So, how long have you been with AW now? I
038mean, you got a little more gray on you, but you still look good. >> Yeah, that sounds about right. That sounds about right. >> Yep. Right. Right. >> Thank you guys for keep doing what you're doing. Any questions for Mr. Herman? If not, I need a motion to approve. >> Shelley move. Do I have a second? >> I'll second. Lindsay seconds. Carry when you're ready. >> Mr. Ben, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hakamire, >> yes. >> Miss Mcnite, >> yes. >> Mr. Miller, >> yes. >> Mr. Stum, >> yes. >> All right, moving to item number five, superintendent personnel recommendations. >> Um, we have two uh resignations uh for bus drivers. We hate to see that at this time of the year, but uh we will work to continue to um fill those bus drivers uh
039positions and uh to have subs available. Next we have the um employment of uh several individuals there. You can see that you know in in different positions, special education aids, bus aids, cafeteria, playground aids. Uh those are uh positions and we're very thankful for the work that's been done to help fill all those positions. I think we are uh fairly set. Uh we may have a few custodial things to do yet, but other than that, we are looking good for the year and are excited about the individuals that have been hired and are looking forward to uh working with them this year. In section C is our substitutes. Uh you you'll recognize uh many of the names. Uh they return every year uh to help us. I believe that uh Dr. contact shared 105 sub
040>> 107. >> All right. >> So that's great. Um I would like to um have you notice the very last uh one we have. It's Curtis Walmer. Curtis is a Penn student. Um he is uh as part of a work study program um he'll be working 15 hours a week with us and um that is actually Gary Vulmer uh is his father and Gary that is how he was hired in and he is our head mechanic at this time. He was here as a Penn student and one of the strongest mechanics um we've seen. So we're looking very forward uh to being able to have this same opportunity for Curtis. >> Awesome. We have uh just a few volunteers uh there one for football, one for boys soccer and then um when um we have
041to have background checks done on any of them that are going to drive uh for the band uh you know the equipment and so forth. So those four individuals are uh banned truck drivers. Limited supplemental contract we do have and again um the limited are uh individuals that are not associated uh with the school system and uh Kevin Gaskins is being hired um to help with the boys uh basketball program as an assistant. So and you can see there it's at the 66% So that is what I have um at this time but would be happy to answer any questions that anyone may have. >> Any questions, comments if they need a motion to approve. >> A motion. >> Lindsay motions. Do I have a second? >> Second. >> We got Mr. Baiten seconding. Carry
042when you're ready. >> Mr. Ben? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hackamire? >> Yes. >> Miss Mcnite? >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. Stam? >> Yes. Perfect. All right. Item number six on our agenda is board comment. No one had mentioned anything, but does anybody have anything? >> Um, how can you just give us an update on the track? >> Yes, >> you kind of did that in the in the email, but just so >> Yep. Um, the track is behind schedule. Um, as we're aware, uh, but we are working at that every day. Uh, every, uh, morning and afternoon. I believe several of us, uh, are up there, uh, communicating with them. I would say in the past week they have made some nice progress. Uh they at this time um have put
043the sad in. Uh we not only uh worked a little bit to uh improve um the track but due to some of the work that was being done on the track. Um the soccer field also uh you know had not been tended to as it as it should have. So, we're also doing a little bit of work on um the field to have both um ready to go because we are behind schedule a bit. We do not feel um confident uh that we want to put uh athletes on it right now. So we have arranged uh for um for the first couple weeks for uh games, scrimmages and so forth to be moved uh and so that we can make sure that we are uh when we put athletes on them that all the areas
044have been uh taken care of and that we're confident that all that you know safety is there. And so that's where we're at right now looking at some of those things. Um they did uh it the asphalt is down. um they have to let that cure and then uh they will add two top two layers of the topping and and that's about an 8-day process. However, um after that when after it goes down um people we can be on it um but you just can't uh complete you know all of it. So we are all I'm going to say is we are making progress. We are disappointed uh that it was not done by August 1st. Uh that was the goal. uh we feel that we've had the weather to um make that happen and
045so forth. So, uh we've just really been focusing on communicating uh with the contractors, having clear expectations uh with the contractors and so forth and making sure at this point that it's moving forward and as completed as soon as possible. >> They haven't given you like a target date yet though, like an end date. >> I don't know that we have an exact target date. Um we we again are hoping for the two-eek period uh to be able to uh start um utilizing it um and so forth the the field utilizing the field which involves the track. >> Uh so we're right now using hoping that is our that's our goal. Uh but again, we're not confident that uh that that's going that that's going to absolutely be completed, but because we will not put
046um students on it until we know that all the areas are safe. Have they offered any sort of like um discount or anything for like not following through with the >> I will share with you that um there has been some a little bit of additional work and so forth that we have uh discussed and when that has come up uh we have shared that we feel that that should be their responsibility um due to uh the time uh we have not gotten into any other conversations. um they recognized that uh they did not that the contract you know was not met by August 1st. Um but whenever you get into these situations there always it always happens that there's a lot of fingerpointing as to why um and so forth. So we that would
047be a process we will have to work through um and we will have um those conversations but right now our focus and our goal is to get the work completed. >> Awesome. Great question. All right, anybody else? Just just a quick welcome to our new new staff. Um, and also our existing staff, Carrie, >> our new staff member. >> No, I think we glanced over that quick, but it's kind of a win-win for the district. It doesn't really cost us anything. And I think we um we get the opportunity to uh have one more full year of uh of our treasure with all the experience and uh um honors that she receives throughout the years that she has to continue work and keep training Ry uh for our uh >> for you're always so loud.
048>> So So we appreciate that opportunity to uh to continue that service for another year. >> Yes. >> Thank you. 11 months. >> Sorry. >> Come on. Almost did. >> Not that she's counting. >> It's bitter. It's bittersweet. Trust me. >> Any other board comments >> and we're excited to have Dr. Fifer. This is >> Absolutely. First time up at the big table. We're happy to have you. >> I know he loves attention for having me. >> All right. With that, we'll move. Do we have any board or uh any public comment like that? >> I don't believe so. >> Anybody want to say anything? >> No. All right. All right. At this time, I ask board motion uh to move into executive session. Sorry, I was choking on my own spit there. um for
049the investigation of charged employment against a public employee official lency or student unless such employee official lency or student requested a public meeting. Do I have a motion? >> I'll move. >> Jeff moves. Do I have a second? Shelley seconds. Carrie, when you are ready, >> Mr. Braden? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hakamire? >> Yes. >> Miss Mcnite? >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller? >> Yes. >> Mr. Stum? >> Yes. And we'll be entering at 8:42. And you guys are all free to go. You certainly don't have to stay here. I'm sure you have much better things to do. Thanks for coming, guys.