001We are going to call the April 20th meeting to order. Roll call. Carr, here. Schwartz, here. Miller, here. Lawson, here. Kiefer, here. This time we're going to do the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Right. Are there any board members who desire to add, delete, or separate any items on the consent agenda as proposed? No? All right. I just need a motion to approve of the meeting agenda as presented for the regular board meeting on April 20th, 2026. So moved. Support. Roll call. Carr, yes. Schwartz, yes. >> Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. >> Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve the minutes of the regular
002board meeting held on March 23rd, 2026. Move. Support. Roll call. Carr, yes. Schwartz, yes. >> Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. At this time, is there any board members with correspondent? No? Mr. Carroll? Mr. Smola? All right. Will you continue recognizing our guests and visitors? Lucas Burkholder, Aaron Schramm. Lucas Burkholder? Ben Frank. Kirstie Schnipke. Dr. Delores Springfield. Dylan Hendricks. Brady Ruppert. Good evening. Head of Board of Education. Superintendent of Evergreen Local Thank you. All right. Seeing that no one has registered to address the board, we're going to move right into Mr. Carroll's treasurer report. Okay. Thank you. So, we do have a stack of papers in front of you. These are our monthly reports for March. First page is the cash reconciliation, which shows that our software is balanced with the books. And
003the banks. Uh second page is the financial summaries. This is showing how our funds are currently appropriated. The next packet is our cash summary. This shows the current POs and fund balance in each account. Uh this first expenditure summary shows all of the checks that we issued in the month of March. And our graph shows how our forecast aligns with our revenue and expenses so far this year. At the end of March, we are 75% of the way through our fiscal year. Everything is looking good and tracking just as it did last year. The second graph, payroll and benefits are broken down. We've spent 73% of our payroll budget and 76% of our benefits budget. On the agenda, we do have a couple um transfers and just increases there to continue getting through the rest
004of the fiscal year. And then, that is all that I have. Okay. Any questions for Mr. Carroll at this time? All right. Then, we're going to jump right into the financial section of the agenda. It is recommended by Brian Carroll, treasurer, to approve the following financial items. To approve the March 2026 financial reports we just reviewed with him. To accept the following donations, a $100 anonymous donation to the student assistance fund. To approve the following transfers, appropriation modifications, and amend resources accordingly. An increase to food services for 75,000. A transfer of $701.42 from wellness to general fund. A transfer of $173.88 from athletic fund to general fund. A transfer of $8.15 from scholarship to student assistance fund. And a transfer of 2,250 from general fund to the general activity strategic plan. We also need to
005authorize the treasurer to make the necessary account modification, appropriation modifications, and to amend resources accordingly to ensure a positive year-end balance on June 30th, 2026. At this time, I just need a motion to approve the financial reports and other financial items. So moved. Support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Yes. Schwartz, yes. Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. We'll move on to personnel. We need to have a motion to non-renew all supplemental and pupil service contracts, including coaches, club moderators, etc., for the 25-26 school year, effective at the conclusion of the current school year. We also need to offer the following teacher a one-year limited contract effective with the start of the 26-27 school year for Kelly Marroquin for E for the elementary reading specialist. Um we also need to approve Sarah Ludwig as
006a home instructor to provide special education services to a student who is currently homebound as a result of a medical condition. Instruction will be for 90 minutes per week for the 2025-2026 school year at the current hourly contracted rate. We need to offer a three-year administrative contract effective August 1st, 2026 to Lucas Burkholder for middle school principal. We also need to offer the following individual a one-year limited non-teaching, non-bargaining unit contract commencing on July 1st, 2026 and ending June 30th, 2027 to Angela Infante for technology coordinator. To offer the following individual a two-year limited non-teaching, non-bargaining unit contract commencing on July 1st, 2026 for Amy Hierman, food service director. We need to accept the resignation of Andrea one-on-one nurse that was effective March 13th, 2026. We need to add the following individuals to the approved
007district substitute list pending the completion of any and all licensure requirements and background checks for Aaron Cheesbro for cafeteria custodian. At this time, we just need a motion to approve the listed personnel positions. Move. Support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Yes. Schwartz, yes. >> Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. We'll move on to other business. We need a motion to approve the granting of high school graduation diplomas to the members of the class of 2026 on May 17th, 2026 pending their successful completion of all graduation requirements as determined by the high school principal. Move. Support. Roll call. Carr, yes. Schwartz, yes. Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve an overnight trip for the Evergreen track team to participate in the OHSAA state track and field tournament
008in Columbus, Ohio should any team members qualify for the state tournament. Athletes will stay at the Drury Inn and Suites at 4109 Parkway Center Drive in Grove City, Ohio on June 4th and 5th. Coach Alex Lutheran will be the trip supervisor. So moved. Support. Um question or discussion? Roll call. Yes. Schwartz, yes. Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. A motion to approve an overnight trip for the Evergreen boys basketball team to attend team camp at the University of Findlay. Students will depart on June 12th and return on June 14th and stay at the Holiday Inn Express and Suites Findlay North by IHG at 1920 Expressway, Findlay, Ohio. Coach Kyle Bausser will be the trip supervisor and school vans will transport students to the camp. Costs of this trip will be covered by the
009students and the program. Move. Support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Yes. Schwartz, yes. Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. To approve an overnight trip for an Evergreen FFA officers, which is eight students, to attend an officer retreat at Orland, Indiana. Students will be trained on how to be an officer and plan for the 26-27 school year. Students will depart on July 26th and return on July 28th. They will stay at an Airbnb in Orland. A school van will transport students to the retreat. Teacher Alex Howell, Alexis Howell, will be the trip supervisor. Trip costs will be covered by the FFA account, alumni, and community sponsorships. So moved. Support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Yes. Schwartz, yes. Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve an agreement with
010Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center to provide training and support resources and handbooks to all mentor program participants for the 26-27 school year. So moved. Support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Yes. Schwartz, yes. Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. We need a motion for the Evergreen Local Board of Education to enter a day treatment purchase service agreement with ANG Educational Services LLC, a special needs education company with the sole purpose of providing educational services in accordance with placement at the Elite Program. Student placements will be at a per diem rate of $170 per student. Last year was $165 for the 26-27 school year. So moved. Support. Questions or discussion? Um do we have [clears throat] any this year? Do we have Three family. Three? Okay. I have a few more than that, but yeah.
011More than that? Okay. Okay. Perfect. Uh any other questions or discussion? Roll call. Carr, yes. Schwartz, yes. Miller, yes. Lawson, yes. Kiefer, yes. Motion carries. We need a motion for the Evergreen Local Board of Education to enter an agreement with Ohio Schools Council regarding the electricity purchase program for selecting the supplier to supply electricity to the district. So moved. Support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Clark. Yes. Fritz. Yes. Burkholder. Yes. >> Austin. Yes. Eaton. Yeah, motion carries. All right, Mr. Samala, will you carry on with discussion and information? >> Yeah, information-wise, uh we do have a levy on the ballot in May. The district has a 0.25% income tax renewal levy on the ballot in May. This is not a new tax. The funds from this levy support school operations, including but not limited to
012salaries, utilities, instructional materials, transportation, and supplies. Um continuing on, summer projects, uh just want to make you aware of the following projects are scheduled for the summer. In addition to cleaning and waxing that is done every summer at the middle school, they'll be painting the middle school gym walls, replacing the main entrance doors. That door is one that we've had ongoing issues with. And replace boiler line seals and valves. At the high school, we'll be replacing the sidewalks from door seven all the way down to the softball field, fixing and painting the drywall in the gym and the main office lobby, and then replacing the roof on the home press box at the stadium. An area of concern for the near future is the roof of the middle school is in bad shape. We've had
013some leaks, so we're going to have to look at is that worth replacing or how long can we get it to uh hold up. So, any questions on summer projects? And then a couple of transfers to note, Tammy Bonamigo uh is moving from bus driver aide to the elementary library aide effective April 6th. And Matt Sager moving from a two-hour bus aide to a four-hour elementary aide effective today. Awesome. All right. Um do we have any information going out about the May levy to Okay. Okay, you're going to send it out like next month or like the Uh it'll be in the next district update. We're going to put some things on social media. Again, it's got to be facts. Just Yeah. What it is, what it is, what it supports. So. Awesome. Thank you.
014Mr. Frank. All right. So, start off, on April 6th, 7th, and 8th, we had our kindergarten teachers and support staff put on our kindergarten screening. So, it was neat to meet some of the new incoming kindergartners for next year and their parents. We currently have around 85 students registered to come into kindergarten next year. And our current kindergarten kindergartners moving up to first are at about 84. So, we're very consistent with those numbers. Um the next item, we had our annual fire inspection on the 13th. And I just like to commend the teachers, staff, and Trent Williams for how we care for EES and make it a safe place for our students. Uh the inspection went very well. No violations were found. Some minor fixes that they recommended were um some of our pull alarms
015in the bathrooms had a few items in front of them, so they wanted us to declutter those areas. So, if a smaller student would need to get to that pull alarm, they could reach it easier. And then another item was some of our shelving, some of the items are stacked too close to the ceiling. So, just kind of declutter some of the areas. So, those were the two main concerns. But, overall, very good. Um Next item, Mrs. Setmire, our art teacher and our student artists would like to invite you to the district art show, and that's on April 24th. It's a Friday. That's from 4:00 to 7:00 at EHS. Um as you all know, Mrs. Setmire goes above and beyond and is a great asset for our district. So, um our students and her are
016excited for that. Our third and fourth graders are wrapping up state testing next week on the 28th and 29th. And they'll finish up with their math state tests. Uh Mr. Torrence, another one of our awesome teachers and his young Viking choir would also like to invite you to the spring choir concert, and that's on May 7th. It's a Thursday at 6:30 at the elementary school. And then lastly, as we've been doing this year, uh staff spotlight features Mrs. Felicia Ford. She's a second grade teacher. And she also has been an active part in our special events when we put on events for the kids in the evenings. Um she's played a big role in those as well. When I asked her what she enjoys about working at EES, she said the caring staff and supportive
017community make it a wonderful place to work. So, I just wanted to give Mrs. Ford a shout-out. Any questions? >> I I do have a question. So, that inspection that he's talking about, probably going to be more back to you guys. Is that the same inspection that we were struggling with last year? Yes. Okay, so now it's all taken care of. >> There's a different inspector this year who is >> That's That's all I wanted to know. Perfect. Thank you. [clears throat] She's here to work with. It went very smoothly. So, Trent and I walked around with the inspector and then just to hear from Metamora and boy. Perfect. Thank you. Awesome. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Burkholder. Good evening. I'll start out with our people's champ that we always have every month
018at the middle school. Um two names, and depending how much in your building, they're newer to Evergreen still. Um Mr. Bailey, um Bryce Bailey is one of our fifth grade teachers. He has only spent two years with us now, assuming the fifth grade up. Um he's become a big asset for our building. The kids love him. He's He really connects well with those those fifth grade students. Um and then uh Mrs. Font, you might have heard of her as Miss Coffey here last year, uh our secretary in our building. Um she's the smiling face that you see when you come in our building. She does a great job not just leading our building in that office area, but she's also quiz bowl coach, she's on our amazing shake team, and she's our yearbook coordinator. So,
019a little bit of everything from Mrs. Font. Um state testing has been started. Last week we did our ELA state testing. We had two good days of that. And then we'll have science this week, and then uh finish off with math the following week on those Thursday or Wednesdays and Thursdays. Uh shout-out to Mrs. Skyron. She's also newer to our building still, only in her third year, but she's got it down to a science now as far as make sure everybody's covered and needs to be where they need to be for those state tests. So, first two days were were were done well. Uh we celebrate third quarter with our normal celebrations. We have our all A's breakfast and our other awards. The all A's breakfast for third quarter is the hardest one to achieve
020because third quarter is the lowest number of kids that have hit the all A's marker. 65 students still were able to achieve it. Um and they get rewarded handsomely for that because we uh get the uh the charm to cater in breakfast for that morning. So, it's like a big hit for them to be be doing third quarter. Uh one of the fun things in our building, obviously, is the amazing shake competition. So, this last month we got it started. Uh we had our first round, which had 52 volunteers from the community come in, and all 83 of our seventh graders competed in the competition. Uh we had a great uh gauntlet competition overall. The main feedback that we got from that from uh community members who have come in repeated as volunteers has been
021that this seventh grade class is our most prepared. So, that was good to hear that we're getting those kids more and more prepared as we do this. I do want to give congratulations to the 10 finalists that we had. These 10 kids moved on to our second round. So, Kaylee McGee, Reagan Mans, Jackson Jequillard, Emily Crockett, Haley Hallett, Drew Miller, Kylie Mans, Bren Hudek, Amir Broski, and Bryce Berlonga. So, those 10 all made it. Uh with that being said, there was about 20 other kids that were within just a about five or eight points of them that just missed out on having. It was very competitive this year. Uh the competition continued last uh Friday, where we went to Parker Hannifin for our second round this year. It was the first time they've hosted for
022us, and they went above and beyond what we were expecting them to do. Kids had an awesome experience. So, they they present a charity to them. Uh and and the time that one kid is presenting, the other nine are participating in games and trivia uh with two hosts that are also judging them. And then we move on uh to a building tour, and then they actually had a lunch there for us as well. The kids had a blast. The two staff members that were there for the whole time said they did an amazing job. The tour of the facility was first class. The kids got to see some pretty awesome um technology. They got to see business locally that works with government contracts for the military. Like, it was very cool for those kids to
023see. They were excited when they came back. So, uh special thank you to Kelly Allison and Nancy Buckenmyer that led that team over at Parker Hannifin. So, I believe five or six of the members are going to come out for our amazing shake final round, which is next Friday. Uh we have our amazing shake late afternoon show for our top three. So, with that being said, our top three were Kaylee uh McGee, Emily Crockett, and Kylie Mans. So, those three all have a chance to be named our champion. Uh also, we had our high school musical take place. Um we had middle schoolers participate in this year, which is pretty neat to see them get to participate in the event. Um from what I was being told, I don't know if they actually keep exact
024attendance records, but it was the most I've seen in four years that we've had it. So, that was good, and I heard everything went really, really well there. Upcoming events for us, state testing, late afternoon show, and then we'll have kids have stuff at the art show on the 24th this Friday, along with our concert is actually May 6th, the day before the elementary concert. So, any questions? Thanks, Seth. Thank you, Mr. Burkholder. Mr. Rufer. And good evening. I got a couple kids. Sophia Goodson takes the our government kids take the Americanism test in Mr. Blain's honors class, and she was uh the highest female student in our area, so she got an all-expense-paid trip to Washington, D.C. Uh so, congratulations to her, and she also participated in the Ohio history bee, so she got
025fourth in that at the state level. Um so, good work to her. And then Wastes Zablocki finished second at state in the oratorical contest, which won him $450. So, he had to give a prepared speech and practice in front of some staff and he's pretty impressive. So, congratulations to those two and just thank Mr. Blanchard who works with the Legion to put those two events on for our kids. Um Lucas had talked about it, the high school musical was last weekend, the 10th and 11th and 12th. So, we did have some staff involved as well as our students. So, it was a good performance. I We also put on your calendars this two Wednesday, our quiz team is playing for the finals in the Bowling Green State University Brain Game. So, that will air They're
026filming that on Wednesday and then we'll get a final air date, but they're playing to be the top out of 32 teams. Um and then this past Saturday, we did have prom. It went well. I'm finding that it's harder for me to stay up that late, but it all went well. Um I do want to thank some teachers. So, uh Mrs. Mondragon has been out on maternity leave and we had some staff members that just volunteered to gather everything. They showed up, they helped set up. Uh we had Mrs. Desmond, Mrs. Hennessy, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs. Dicken, uh Mrs. Ricker. Um we also had quite a few junior class parents that showed up cuz had we not had that help, I would have been there myself putting on chair covers and it wouldn't have been good.
027So, thank you to all of them that helped organize that. Um last one is on May 1st, we have our final Future Friday. It's going to be a little different this time. Um every kid 9th through 11th is going to go out and do 2 hours of community service. We're doing Metamora Lions and then we have Ronald McDonald House and some local retirement homes that they will be in and then when they're in the school, it's kind of more of relaxed. There is a career session, um but they're also going to do some activities that are just kind of more relaxed. It's the first day after state testing and then we're working on partnering with some mental health agencies to provide some resources for our kids. So, kind of a way to recharge after state
028testing and prepare for that final stretch of the school year. So, that's coming up May 1st. Any questions? Thank you. Thanks, Mr. First. Mr. Hendricks. Good evening, everybody. I just wanted to start off with a big thank you to Carter Lumber, our softball community, um and the entire program for their support in getting the material and their willingness to set up uh Piper Field um turf for a softball game. If you guys were able to make that out, that was really cool that. Not only a great experience for the kids, but I think a great community event as well. So, if Mother Nature, like it has been, is not letting us get on the field, I look forward to um utilizing what we have. Um right now in the department, working on a few projects.
029I know Mr. Smola mentioned the home press box um that Mr. Williams has been working with contractors and getting that taken care of. Um I'm also working with Tony and Torrence Sound to revamp our audio system out there at Piper Field. So, again, looking at taking down that large speaker on the home side once that roof comes down, um working on getting some new speakers out there to kind of revamp all that. So, that's something that's pretty updated. Um so, just trying to get all of that wrapped up here going into summer. And then lastly, um I believe there was discussion about it, but also looking at um revamping our banners in the gym. So, I'm sure you guys go to other schools and see sports-specific banners instead of each year championship banners. So, again,
030just kind of batting around some ideas, but that's kind of the way I'm looking at navigating this is more of a sports-specific banner. Um working with some businesses on getting some quotes and getting that taken care of. Um lastly, just wanted to thank the admin team, maintenance, coaches, especially Dawn, uh for keeping the department running smoothly while I was out on paternity leave. Um you know, Dawn went above and beyond. She She did an excellent job with organization um and just maintaining communication, which is really, really key in the springtime with a lot of cancellations, rescheduled stuff like that. So, I actually got back in today and was expecting a little bit more work to do. There's always crazy amount of work to do, but she did a flawless job. So, I just really want
031to commend her on that. So, that's it. Any questions? Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you, Dawn. Please. Uh Mr. Smola. Yeah, I would like to thank our students and parents for taking the time to complete the high school programming survey. Their feedback is valuable for us to shape the future of the district. Uh last week, the administrative team met, reviewed the survey results, and identified potential pathways moving forward. Looking at a year out for 2027-28, we're exploring the development of a business and hospitality and health and science pathway to offer our students. As for part of our long-range planning, we're looking at uh construction trades, fine arts, and pre-pre-apprenticeship pathways. So, our next step is to research coursework, begin building potential schedules to better understand what each pathway could look like. So, some other opportunities
032for our kids that would impact kids going to college and kids who are looking to go into the workforce. So, that's what we're working on. And then we have four students that who are accepted into the fifth year program. They're Haley Harman, Xavier Robinette, Thomas Baker, and Nolan Harman. The fifth year program is a 10-month experience to help students who are not sure about their plans after graduation. Uh the experience offers paid internships, professional soft skills, career shadowing, and skills to navigate life after high school. So, just This is the first year we're a part of it and four students were selected. So, congratulations to them. Excellent. Any questions? I don't think so. Thank you, Mr. Smola. Thank you. Any board members with questions or concerns? Nope. All right. I just need a motion to
033adjourn the April 20th, 2026 regular meeting of the Evergreen Local Board of Education. So moved. Second. Roll call. I. Yes. Yes. Yes. >> I. Yes. Yes. Motion carried.