001All right, we are going to call the February 17th meeting to order. Roll call. >> Carr >> here. Schmidz >> here. >> Miller >> here. Mossing >> Here. This time we will do 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. >> All right. At this time, is there any board members who desire to add, delete, or separate any items of the consent agenda as proposed? >> Nope. All right. I just need a motion to approve the meeting agenda as presented for the regular board meeting on February 17th, 2026. >> Move to support. >> Roll call. >> R. >> Yes. >> Vince, >> yes. Yes. >> Miller. >>
002Yes. >> Fossing. >> Yes. >> Keeper. >> Yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve the minutes of the organizational and regular board meetings held on January 12th, 2026 and the special board meeting held on January 22nd, 2026. >> Roll call. >> Bar. >> Yes. >> Schmidz. >> Yes. >> Miller. Mos. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. At this time, is there any board members with correspondence? Mr. Carol, >> no. >> And Mr. Small. >> Yes. I received two notices of resignation from Rita Brand and Diane Pther. >> Thank you. Will you continue recognizing our guests and visitors? >> Guest with us. Can you please just introduce yourself? >> Tom Wolf, Tony Doctor, OSP, >> Angela, Elizabeth, Amanda Bry, Dr. Wford, Jenny Conrad, Amber Hansel, >> Brian Hansel, Lucas Burgold Frank. >> Thank you everyone.
003Um, we do have two presentations for the board tonight. Our first one is um, Mr. Jan Best from OSBA. >> You want me to stand up? >> Yes, please. >> All right. Good evening everybody. Um, I am Jan Busher from the Ohio School Board Association. I am president of the Northwest region and I'm also president of the Woodmore local school district uh board of education uh which is over by Sunduski in Ottawa County. Um tonight though for the OSB we do have a recognition. One thing that we give out at our spring and fall conferences is a veteran board members uh certificate for number of years that a board member spends on the board. And tonight I am pleased to give a 10-year award uh certificate to Nora Kefir. >> Thank you. Did you get
004it? Thank you very >> um if I could for two minutes >> I would just like to uh mentioned about some upcoming events that the Northwest region is doing. Um on March 19th we are having our spring conference and that is at Liberty Benton Elementary School in Finley. Uh registration is currently open which is on the OSBA website. Uh on March 24th we have a state legislative conference that is held in Seduski, Ohio at the Seduski Yacht Club and that is free. Um they do have a meal but you pay for the meal. You order off the menu and you pay for the meal but the actual conference itself is free. um and that they bring up uh OSBA's legislative team. They talk about what's happening at the state level and we all know that
005there's a lot happening that there and so you can ask questions and find out what's what is actually going on. Um there is a legislative open house with the northeast and central that's the that's the yak club that we go in with the northeast region and the central region. Um on October 8th uh is the Northwest Region Fall event uh conference and that's going to be held at North Baltimore High School. Um and on November 15th through the 17th is capital conference again for for this year held in Columbus Convention Center. Um, one of the things that we try to do at these conferences is recognize awards with people within school districts that that support your school district. And and I know every school district has somebody, an individual, an organization, a company, a group
006that does a lot for your school district. And at these conferences, we have that uh we have those awards. Um it's an excellence in community service award, humanitarian award, excellent award for outstanding leadership, and I have some information about those. I'm going to leave with you. And there's an application on the back. Um, it's too late now for the spring conference, but you know, for the fall conference, if you have anybody that you would like to recognize, this is an opportunity and a great time to do that. Um there are some other awards that for school districts, the Purple Star uh recognition, which is for a school district that supports military families, uh either uh students that have uh parents in the military or maybe your staff or parents that are in the military and
007you support that, that also information on how to do that is on the OSBA website. Uh we have a Bonnie Eddie educational supply book grant. Um we give out at the spring conference we give five $500 uh scholarships to high school seniors who are going into the education field field and uh those are being on that committee to select those. We had uh we had I think 60 applicants this year and we had to narrow it down to five. And you talk about something that's really tough because these these kids are really something else and it's just amazing uh what they their involvement and why they want to go into education. So as president of the region I have set a couple goals this year and one of the goals is I totally enjoy coming
008out to this part of the state. Um, I have a grand uh I'm sorry, a godson who goes to Brian High School. Um, there's some friends that live in Pioneer, you know, that go to North Central. And I I totally enjoy coming out this and and this way. And when I come to schools like this and meet uh individuals, one of the things I hear is about the distance, the drive. You know, we have a legislative uh open house going at Suduski. That's quite a drive, you know, and I understand that. I get that. So, one of the goals that I set this year is instead of setting these places, you know, these uh conferences or the events so far away, I want to bring it to this way. And so on uh on April
00929th from 5 to 7, we're having a region open house and that's going to be at the Northwest Ohio uh ESC at Archold. Um, so it's a little closer, you know, so if you're interested, uh, also on the OSBA website, uh, this information is on there. So we're going to be doing that. And also on September 29th, uh, from 5 to 7:00, we're going to the Mercer County EST. That's quite a ways south. That's at the very end of our region, uh, in Mercer County. So, it's quite a distance, but it's again the same thing trying to bring OSBA toward you. Uh, we're going to have people from OSBA that's going to talk about legislative issues and also about OSB in general on what they're doing and what's going on. So, those are just a
010couple things that uh are going on with around the region. And if there anything I can you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer them if I can. sounds. >> Any questions for Mr. Dickens? >> No. Thanks, Phil. >> Thank you very much, sir. >> Thank you. >> Have a safe trip back. >> Yeah. Well, >> all right. Our next presenter is Elizabeth O'Connell. >> Hi, I'm Angela Plant. Um, I'm also with TNG Group with Elizabeth. Uh, she has been training me. I've been with TNG since September and on campus since September. Um, we just wanted to come here to introduce ourselves and um, mainly tell you a little bit about TNG and our son. So, I have been in food service before. I come from University of Toledo. So I did work for
011a food service management company on campus there. So I'm familiar with food service companies and while I've been here I have been in children. >> Okay. >> My name is Elizabeth Okonnell. Um I have been with the nutrition group about two years. Um I served out at Mason uh schools went to Somefield and Whiteford and now here. So I've been working to learn all of the um states. So, being in Michigan and now in Ohio, um the nutrition group is really uh happy to partner with Evergreen Schools and um we brought you a little gift which um we've been here for about a year now. We came in emergency basis in 2024 and then uh on this school year. So, we brought you a little packet of of information about things that are happening in
012our organization and things that we can bring to the table here. Um, there's a handy calendar in there and a bookmark and a couple of other pieces of literature in there. Um, and we made you a little treat, too, to let you know how much we appreciate you. We wanted to, um, let you know that our contact information is at the top of the menu. So, our email and phone numbers are available at the top of the menus. Um, I'm not sure if it's been changed on the website or not or information still. We should check that. But um feel free to reach out if you have any questions or concerns. Um one of our goals with um partnering with Evergreen Local Schools is to become part of the Evergreen family. We're working on gaining
013the trust of the staff. Um we really have some great ideas, some great things that we can incorporate into our programs and we're looking forward to doing that as we go forward and we get them trained, we get them used to doing some things. We have some uh goals of doing more and more homemade uh items. So um but all these things are going to come with time as we get familiar. We get to be a welloiled machine back there together. So we just want to introduce ourselves and let you know we're here and and uh we're welcome questions or anything that you have. >> Any questions for >> appreciate it. >> Thank you very much ladies. All right, Mr. Carol, would you like to go over your report? >> Great. Thank you. Stack of
014papers that you have our monthly financials for January. The first document you have is our cash reconciliation. Now, this shows that our software is balanced by all of our banks. The second page, the financial summary. This is how we are currently appropriated in our software. The cash summary. This shows each of our funds with fund balance and what we have spent so far this fiscal year. The dispersement summary. These are the checks that we issued in the month of January. And then the first graph you have is the revenue and expenses of January compared to last last January and then compared to the forecast. So far at the end of January, we are 58% of the way through the fiscal year. And the second graph is the payroll and benefits broken down. Again, we're 58
01558% of the way through the year. We have spent 57% of our payroll budget and 61% of our benefits budget. And the last graph, we did receive at the end of January our third income tax collection with that payment was up slightly. It does put us up 12% over last year. Couple other items on financial consent agenda. We did receive uh multiple donations mainly for um our student assistance fund and then for uh FFA conference coming up. We have two transfers from I'm sorry, one transfer from athletic fund to tournament fund and then an advance of $100,000 from general fund to food service. We have three grants that we need to add funds to. And then the tax rate. This gets submitted to uh the budget commission for next year. Then the forecast that you
016have in front of you. Um two items that I wanted to uh shed some light on. Um there is a lot of uncertainty with uh property taxes right now and it has been recommended to us to flatline our revenue. So the very top line you will see property taxes have been flatlined for the next uh for this year and then three years moving forward. That is rare. Uh this is the first time that we've submitted an forecast this early in the year. Typically it's in May and then we would only have one month left of the fiscal year. So this is pretty early but uh that was recommended. So we did flatline the revenue uh real estate revenue. And then on line 6.010, that's the B a big blue line. Uh you do see in
017fiscal year 28 and 29 that those are red. That is because we can't include our income tax renewals in there until they're approved. Uh but they are included at the bottom under uh income tax renewals. And then at the very bottom, we are in good shape uh moving forward because those income tax renewals are calculated in. So I just wanted to bring those to your attention. Outside of that, that is all that I have. >> Perfect. Any questions for Mr. Frell before we jump into the financial section of the agenda? >> Okay. Then we are going to start with the consent agenda and financials. Need a motion um to approve the January 2026 financial reports we just reviewed with Mr. Carol to accept the following donations. $100 anonymous donation to the students assistance fund and
018the and $500 from the Knights of Columbus to the students assistance fund. The rest of these um donations are all going to go to FFA. So, I'm just going to read off our donators. $100 from Cell King International, 200 from Holland Farms, 80 from Berky Farm Center, 50 from Robert Nash, 50 from Rele Farms, 250 from Bill Elvie, 50 from Anna Bast, a thousand from the Fulton County Dairy Association, 100 from Anthony Zuk, and 200 from Valerie Yearly. We also need to approve the following transfers, appropriations, modifications, and amended resources accordingly. a transfer of $25.90 from the athletic fund to the tournament fund in advance of a h 100,000 from the general fund to food services. We need to approve the following grants, modify appropriations, and amend resources accordingly. The title one grant for 76
019$765.80, the school safety grant for $5,26.85 and the career awareness for $3,188.14. to accept the amount and rates determined by the budget commission and authorize the necessary tax levies and certify them with the county auditor. We also need to approve the financial forecasts to be submitted to the Ohio Department of Education and workforce by February 28th, 2026. At this time, I just need a motion to approve those financial reports and other financial items. >> Move. >> Supported. >> Any question at this time or discussion? Roll call. >> R. Yes. Schmidz. >> Yes. Yes. >> Miller. >> Yes. Mossing. >> Yes. >> Kefir. >> Yes. Motion carries. We'll move on to personnel. We need to accept the resignation of Rita Brand, bus driver, effective February 4th, 2026. And to accept the resignation of Diane Pickering, a
020reading specialist for the purpose of retirement effective May 29th, 2026. We need to terminate the employment contract with Marcen Smith, library aid, effective February 17th, 2026. need to offer the following supplemental contract for the 2526 school year pending the completion of all pupil activity permit requirements. Ethan Vanluki for the JV um baseball coach. We need to add the following individual to the approved district substitute list pending the completion of any and all lensure requirements and background checks for Rita Brand for cafeteria custodian aid. And at this time, we just need a motion to approve those above listed personnel positions. Solo >> deported. Questions or discussion? Roll call? >> R. >> Yes. Schmidz? >> Yes. >> Miller? >> Yes. Mossing? >> Yes. >> Kefir? >> Yes. Motion carries. We'll move on to other business. We have
021a motion to approve the granting of an Evergreen High School diploma to the following students that have met all graduation requirements as determined by the high school principal. Cormick Goodlet, Maline Hireman, and Jacob Loren. So move questions or discussion. Roll cop. >> Yes. Schz. >> Yes. >> Miller. >> Yes. Dawson. >> Yes. >> Keeper. >> Yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to authorize membership to the Ohio High School Athletic Association for the Evergreen High School and Evergreen Middle School for the 2627 school year. The board agrees to conduct Evergreen's athletic programs in accordance with the constitution, bylaws, regulations, interpretations, and decisions of the OSAA. >> So move forward. >> Questions or discussion? >> Roll call. >> Bar, yes. >> Schmidz, >> yes. >> Miller, >> Yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to approve the
022proposed policy revisions and new policies to every local school board's policy. The following policy revisions and additions are recommended for approval. I'm going to let you guys read through that quick list from Yola and I'll take a motion. >> Questions or discussion? >> Roll call. >> Yes. >> Fence. >> Yes. >> Miller. >> Yes. Fing. >> Yes. >> Keeper. >> Yes. Motion carries. Mr. Samoa, would you like to take over discussion and information? >> Yes. going to slide over here if that's okay. I show you some slides. I also put a copy of the slides in your packet. So, looking strategically at where we want to go with our academic programming at the high school that could then move down into our middle school. I wanted to talk about what we've look been looking at
023administratively. um think we do a really good job for our students who are collegebound between our AP courses and CCP classes. There's a lot of opportunity for those students and figuring out the pathway that they want to go. We've been challenged by uh Steve Dan, the director of ODU to kind of rethink high school programming and what we're offering our students. And that comes directly in line with our strategic plan. We're two parts under our academic goal. forward to expand and promote academic programs and correlation to career prep and to prioritize authentic academic experiences such as service learning, real life learning opportunities and personalized pathways. So looking at where do we want to go with our academic programming? What do we want to offer? How do we adapt what we're offering so we meet the
024needs of our students and the community? Um there's money money that goes along with this from the state. we can challenge our students. We can keep students on campus hopefully and provide them with some skills and credentials more than just a diploma. What we're looking So if we redo uh academic programming or what are the benefits? So again, a program that hopefully allows students to explore careers while they're here at Evergreen and leave Evergreen with competitive advantage over students graduating from other schools. I would love to see Evergreen become a magnet school where we're bringing in students from the surrounding schools, Swanon, Delta, Springfield, uh Sennsylvania, because we're offering something that they can't get in their home district. So we become a magnet. We're bringing students in because we've got some unique programming that they
025can't get anywhere else. And then again, funding tied to creating new programs is a motivating factor of what can we offer for our students? And then there's a way to help offset the cost of these new programs. What's in it for our students? Well, goals for them, participation in internships or apprenticeships, work-based learning, coming out of Evergreen with strong employable skills, and potentially industry recognized certifications. All that tying together with new programs. We also looked at student data. So, our students did the current students in the high school uh call did a career assessment looking at areas of interest for when they leave Evergreen after they graduate. and students selected their top three career favorite fields and and the information is there of what they came up with and some of the highest scoring potential
026career areas were the health sciences, construction and architecture, uh transportation, logistics, distribution, business management, law and public safety. So looking at what our students are interested in and what we don't have currently that we're offering, what pathways would become potential options. So on one of the snow days, the administrative team met and we came up with five programming pathways that we think are worth exploring. industrial and skilled trades, business and entrepreneurship, engineering and technology, health and human services, logistics and transportation, and then a little philosophy statement which would go with each of those areas. So, what does that look like practically in in the high school setting, what courses or programs would fall under those broad headings? and we came up with a bunch again and this is what we came up with administratively. I'm
027not going to read all of them to you, but these are some that we came up with and thought, boy, it'd be nice to be able to offer a little bit more to our students. How about a student, you know, looking at logistics and transportation, they graduate and they have a CDL upon graduation. or you're looking at business and entrepreneurship and you've got your real estate license as you're graduating believe from Every. Just a couple of examples, but I'd ask you, you know, stop. What is missing from that list? And I presented this information at all three of our buildings and and asked staff, what are we missing? So, this is an administrative brainstorming session, but are there other pathways that we should be looking at or are there other opportunities under these five? So,
028I sent a survey out to district staff. Give us more information so we can continue to explore what are we not looking at because right now it's all an opportunity. Can we do all of these things and offer all these programs? No, we're simply not large enough. But to exclude something from consideration at this point, I think it's premature to do. Let's look at everything and you know what do we want to offer the students. So that's essentially the next step in in the process for this. I've met with faculty and sent them the survey. I want to get in front of students. I want to get in front of parents and then community members and hear throughout this semester look at what we should be narrowing down our programming options too. I believe all
029of you also received the survey. You should have received that I think either Friday or Monday. Probably didn't make a lot of sense to you at that point. But again, looking at those areas, what should we be considering for other programming options? So on our end, you know, what do we need to consider and then how do we make it a reality? But right now, we're just casting a wide net to look at all options. And there'll be groups, you know, refining our choices, looking at what other districts are doing programming wise. So we're not reinventing the wheel. Where's our interest? What does the community want? And then how do we make that a reality? And some of that becoming a reality, you know, may be changing staffing, hiring more staff. It may be some
030facilities to accommodate these programs, but I think we need to know where we want to go academically as our next step. Any questions? Seemed like I was talking real fast. That's just apologize. So, you do have questions later on, you know, let me know and I will be providing opportunities to all of you to be a part of this process. >> Can I ask a quick question? Sure. >> Is this going to be in in addition to the normal traditional education that we're providing? >> Yeah, we we have to offer all of our support. >> I just want to make sure that that high level of education is not going to be compromised by this possibility. Thank you. That's what Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right. All Mr. You ready for me to
031jump into administrative other? >> Yes. Okay. Okay. Mr. Frank, jump to you. All right, switching gears to the elementary. Um, our students wrapped up their middle of year benchmark assessments and, uh, showed us that 66% of our students are at or above grade level. So, being halfway through the year, we're well on our way to our goal, 80% at or above grade level. So, we're making good progress there. Uh, our teachers are working through grade level meetings. So the each grade level will meet with our MTSS team to look at data, kind of analyze what they're seeing from those winter benchmark tests, and then that just helps us with our tier one instruction and our interventions that we put in place. Um, next thing, a group of uh teachers met last Friday to look at
032some ELA curriculum options for our new reading curriculum that we're going to adopt. Um, the team did a really good job. They used a intensive rubric from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, worked through and rated the different curriculums and then came away with two of the top choices and then they took that back to their grade level teams um and are going through that with the rest of the teachers. And they're also using a not quite as extensive of a rubric, but a smaller rubric with their team to kind of weed out the the top one. So, we're looking forward to getting to the final stages of that. Our family steam night was a big success. That was really awesome to see the students. The one thing I noticed most was how engaged
033they were in all the activities. So, it's it's neat to see when we bring learning to life how the students really do stay engaged because obviously we hear trends of kids not wanting to pay attention or not being engaged, but it it shows that when you put the right things in front of them, they're they're all in and soaking it up. So, that was a great reminder for me and the other staff there to see that. The Daddy Daughter dance was last week as well. So, shout out to MVP for putting on that awesome event. It's neat. As a dad, it's neat to see see all the girls walking in and just beaming with pride and excitement walking in with their uh father figures. Um, so that was neat to see as well. And then
034lastly, our uh staff spotlight this past month was Mrs. Monica Anderson. She's a kindergarten teacher. She's been a staple here at Evergreen. I'm sure most of you know her. Um, she has been here for 32 years and she said she's especially enjoyed working with her sister, Mrs. Tracy Kennedy. Um, so I want to give her a shout out and thank her for all she does for some of our youngesties. >> Any questions? >> No. Thanks. So, thank you, Mr. Frankie. >> Thank you. >> Mr. Buller. >> Good evening to you guys. >> Sorry, my voice is a little bit under the weather, so I'll I'll try not to squeak on you. Um, sat like three times in there for the kids. Uh, middle school people champ. Um, I got two individuals that I'll throw out
035their names yet. I don't know if we'll know them all yet. One of them is newer to our district, Mr. Cooper. Um, if you haven't met him yet, he is in his first year as part of our band team with Mr. Steerman. um he's actually familiar with our district because he was here about seven years ago student teaching. Um so he came right in, hit the ground running right away and he's done an awesome job helping us um kind of even grow our our musical program. So he's a huge asset for us in that department especially for the middle school. And then Tammy Ninger, any of you don't know, she is a bedroom teacher for our district. Um she's actually the district teacher of the year I believe two years ago. I'm remembering it right
036two or three years ago. um she's a huge leader in our building overall. Um she's an intervention specialist for the seventh grade and she just leads by example in everything she does in our building. So I want to recognize both those special people. Um update for the middle school as far as our facility dog fundraising. We've been now doing it for almost a month and the good news is we're over halfway already as far as our goal. Our goal is to raise $4,000 or over $2,100 now. And we haven't even really done our first full fundraiser. Um, so that's good to know that we're we're we're heading in the right direction for that. Um, events, things that take place over the last month for us, we did have our data days. Um, Dr. Swinford led
037that for the math, ELA, and sped departments. Um, and that's just a day in which they get to spend extra time diving into the state data, looking at how where they did, strengths and weaknesses, and kind of figuring out where we want to move forward um, with state testing data. We actually also in the report here, we had PD last Friday. Um, I do want to recognize a couple uh sessions that we had at the middle school on the afternoon. You got to have your own sessions and we had two that were specific to our building requested by our teachers. One was a wellness session where teachers learned about mental health, uh, physical health and the way to keep themselves stress free. That was led by Jenny Burkeolder, one of our teachers. She presents at
038other conferences as well. That was an excellent session for us. Um, she even got me to do a little bit of yoga. Um and then our other presenter um was Rick Leky. He came in and did some financial support and STRS education for teachers um to help them better understand a lot of the changes that are taking place and um where they could improve and make the student on their own. So uh thank you Mr. Lucky too that that was a very knowledgeable session for us to hear. Um one successful thing we had this last month is we had our DARE graduation on the actual schedule day. First time in four years. No stroll. Um, special thank you to Mike Bor, Deputy Mike Borman. It was his first time leading it and organizing it and
039we actually switched up a little bit this year. We brought the second graders down and had it as a bigger event. Um, I thought it went great. He brought in a couple other deputies. They brought in a drug dog that kind of stole the show and really entertained everybody. But all in all, it was a great event recognizing the kids and what their development as far as the DARE program and what's teaching them about decision-m. Um, I'll highlight again, uh, MVP doing what they do in our district. Uh, they hosted a skate party for us on February 8th at Wasan Roller Cave. Um, so thank you to MVP for doing that for the middle school building. Um, we really appreciate the events they put on for us throughout the year addition to what they already
040do at the elementary. And then I want to recognize uh, four students real quick that went to the uh, Pton County Spelling Bee on February 10th. Uh, we send our best spellers, one for each grade level. So in fifth grade, Jack Mans represented us. In sixth grade, we had Noah Proudfoot and then his sister in seventh grade, Leela Proudfoot. That's that family watches will. And eighth grade was Samantha Spooler. Um, they did a great job representing Evergreen. And that's uh I think we're we have somebody finishing like the top two every year for the last four years. So, they've done really good. So, any questions? >> I don't think so. Thank you, Mr. Burke. Thank you. >> Um, Mrs. Bra. Good evening. Amanda Brain, high school counselor. I'm here on behalf of the high school
041and Mr. Roofer. Uh he asked me to come and outline some of the um changes that we are implementing next year for our scheduling process. um specifically um our CCP um at home study halls. You may know them as um late arrival and early dismissal. So this time of year we start thinking about next year and making plans for schedules. Uh students will be given course request sheets um here in the near future um outlining um some of these new policies. So I wanted to share them with you. Um the first being that um the CCP study hall at home will only be available for seniors privilege for seniors only starting next year. In addition to being a senior, we are asking that um they meet a few additional criteria. One being a 3.5 cumulative
042GPA um on the weighted grade scale. Um, in addition, um, during their junior year, they cannot have any, uh, no credit, F, D, D plus, D minus, C, C++, or C minus grades on their transcript to demonstrate academic, um, responsibility. um at if at any time we receive notice, official notice from a college or university that a student is receiving any of those grades, um we will then require the student to um be in person and on campus all day in an effort to increase those grades. Um and then additionally, um our CCP at home study halls will be available for only first and seventh period. So we will have students um grades 9 through 12 in the building for periods 2 through six. There is um one small change to our work study program.
043I also wanted to highlight um work study will be 65 hours per 9 weeks uh work requirement and that's up just slightly. It was um previously worded as 120 hours a semester. So there's a slight increase there. Um and that's um related to um our report card um guidelines. And then lastly, we're going to tie the Ohio Means Job Readiness Seal into that course as well. Um so requiring students to complete that seal again for that um those report card requirements. >> I have any questions? >> Thanks, Miss Frame. Mr. Do. >> Uh good evening. I'm going to start first off um piggybacking off of Amanda with CCP changes. One of the changes that's going to happen is technology related. Um currently the way that we stand uh our CCP students, every student is given
044a Chromebook from Evergreen. Um and that is what they that is what we provide. Um, some of these classes require a normal laptop, whether it's PC or a MacBook. Um, and there's been a lot of headaches around that in the last few years. So, we are going to put it in policy that um, we are providing a Chromebook. If a CCP class requires a regular laptop of some sort, we will have them available here that students can use, but um they will now we will no longer be providing MacBooks for students. Um we did put that change into place this year, but um there was no actual policy around it. it was kind of a I think a shell shock to some of our kids that we weren't going to provide them with MacBooks. Um,
045and then so what we did this year to kind of put a band-aid on it is we we allowed our CCP students to bring in their own device if they had a MacBook. Um, we have a public Wi-Fi that's turned on that they can connect to. Um, but that is a security risk really having devices come in during the day, getting on our network. Um, we can't monitor our students as well. They're on their own device for privacy reasons. We can't access their stuff. Um, so beginning next year, we will also no longer be allowing students to bring their own device. Um, that's probably gonna be a little bit of a shell shock for uh some of our kids because I know they have MacBooks, but anything done on that they want to do on
046their device will have to be done at home. Um, our public Wi-Fi will not be available during the school day um for that reason. Uh, so Mr. Roofer wanted me to just bring that up as well along with some of the changes that they're making. Technology is a part of that. So, student data privacy, I think I talked in November about this a little bit, but we had a PD back in November for our staff. Um, there's a lot of new laws in place regarding student data privacy. Um, at the time of the training, I think we had about 35 uh privacy agreements in place with our vendors, our software vendors. We're over a hundred now. Um that is a big chunk of my day lately is privacy agreements. So um but we're making good
047progress. Like I said, over a hundred now. Uh and we'll just continue to add as we can. Um there are some vendors that refuse to sign a privacy agreement. If it's something that we really need, then we will have to go parent consent, but we are not there yet. Um we will be evaluating what what applications those are. are there alternatives that maybe they have signed a DPA. Um so we are making good progress on that. Uh there is a law in place uh beginning July 1st. School districts have to have a cyber security um program in place. I have begun researching that what that looks like. Um, I have a really good friend of mine that's in cyber security and I'm actually going to be meeting with him in a couple weeks and um,
048he actually has helped a lot of local um, towns and villages are also required for these um, this new law. They had to have it in place by January 1st. So, he has actually helped a few of these villages get theirs in place. Um, so I'm gonna piggyback off of some advice that he gives me and then hopefully by July 1st we'll have our cyber security program in place. Um, the WAKA is offering some services regarding that obviously for a fee. If it's something that I can do, I will do it. So that way then it doesn't cost our district any additional money. If it's something that I feel I I want to lean on Noaka a little bit for, then I will discuss that with um the admin team and decide the way we
049want to go. Uh, and just in the last week, I ordered all of our devices for next year. So, 250 Chromebooks uh for our fifth grade and our ninth grade. That's when they get their new devices. And then our eighth grade devices will be moved down to the elementary school to keep that um fleet updated. Uh, and then I just purchased uh new MacBooks for our elementary teachers. Um, this was year three of a 5-year rotation. So for the next two years now we will not have any laptop purchases for our staff and then in two years we'll re we'll restart that um sequence. So that is um but we should have those hopefully in the next couple of weeks. And then the last thing that I'm working on is I'm working on getting pricing
050for new point of sale machines for our cafeterias. Um the ones that we have have been in place for a long time and it's time to get those updated um for multiple reasons. They're just old. The batteries don't last and security reasons. Um they're running Windows 10. We need to get those updated. So, I'm getting some pricing around. I'll talk to Brian and we'll make a decision on how we want to move forward with that. But that is all I have. Any questions? >> I don't think so. Thank you, Mr. Double. Thank you. Sir Samoa. Uh >> yeah, a couple items to touch on. So been an interesting year for weather. So we've missed nine days uh with the state and our hour system. All of our grade levels are in good shape except for
051seniors because they graduate on May 17th. They have I guess less time with us. So right now they are okay. There's about two day cushion for them. But if we would have another spell of bad weather and we miss multiple days, there is the potential they would need to make days up at the end of the school year. So right now, everyone else is great. I think we got about an 8day cushion. Seniors do not have that. So we will keep an eye on that. And I know that will not be a popular decision if if that happens, but that is out of our control. We got guidance from the state today uh looking at you know could we do like a blizzard bag or cannot do that. We would have had to have approved
052that as a plan uh prior to August one and we build four days into our calendar for extra days which we have not used I don't think and since the state went to ours so thought we were good. So we'll wait and see. Hopefully we uh are done with fog and snow and ice and extreme cold. Any questions on the glam days? As you're aware, earlier today, threatening message in the upstairs boy's restroom. Uh out of an abundance of caution, we went into lockdown. Uh did look at who it could potentially be. That is still under investigation. We did search the building uh lockers and locker rooms and common areas. Um happy to report we did not find anything. We did not think we would, but again, we always have to go overboard on the
053side of safety. Um, when the search was concluded, law enforcement was a part of that. They were here with us supporting us. Uh, went out of lockdown, resumed the regular day. I know a lot of parents were concerned and upset. We are limited in what we want to send out and how timely we can do it while we're in the middle of an incident. So, uh, I thought our administrative team worked very well together, addressed it, everybody communicated well. Um, we did debrief after school. There's always a few things and takeaways that we can change and do better, but, uh, overall was handled very well and we were, you know, fortunate that again it was just a unproven threat on the on the wall of the bathroom. Questions? I'm sure you have questions. >> Um,
054I've been asked if there will be extra like if we have any concern to have extra tomorrow to kind of keep an eye. >> Well, we do not have extra law enforcement scheduled to be here. I'm I know, you know, there were additional deputies today. I'm sure that is something we could make happen, but right now I don't think there's the need for it. >> Okay. Yes. Go ahead. Thank you. >> Awesome. All right. Is there any board members with questions or concerns? >> No. All right. Then I just need a motion to adjourn the February 17, 2026 regular meeting of the Evergreen Local Board of Education. >> Move. >> The board of roll call. >> R. >> Yes. Schmidz. >> Yes. >> Miller. >> Yes. Mosing. >> Yes. >> Kefir, >> yes. Motion carries.
055Thank you.