001All right, we're going to call the September 15th meeting to order. Roll call. Mr. Carr here. Mr. Miller here. Mr. Smith here. >> Here. This time we will do the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. All right. Is there any board members who desire to add, delete, or separate any items on 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 September 15, 2025. >> Roll call. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. >> Mr. Par. >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller. >> Yes. Mr. Smith. >> Yes. Mrs. He >> motion carries. We have a motion to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting held on August 18th, 2025. >> Support.
002>> Roll call. >> Mr. Bul, >> yes. >> Mr. Tar, >> yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, >> Yes. Motion carries. Are there any board members of correspondence? >> Treasure and Mr. Small. Yeah. Notice of resignation from Rosie Ko and John Kobar. >> Thank you. Will you continue recognizing our guest and visitor? Mr. Small >> guest for this. If you please just introduce yourself. >> My name is Lindsay M. >> Dr. Doris going forth Jenny Amber Hansel Christy Frankolder. >> Thank you everyone. Um, at this time we're going to have Chrissy Rear from District One for State Board of Education come up and address the board. Good evening. Thank you for letting me speak tonight. I am your state board of education elected member for district 1, which goes all the way over to Indiana
003and then down to Champagne County, up around Columbus to Richland, and then back through Finley. So, I've got 23 counties in the state of Ohio. So, I'm glad to live in Swat, Ohio, right around the corner. And I wanted to stop by tonight and commend your teachers, your educators, your building staff, and you that are here every day for our kids. So, thank you for being here. I applaud them. I appreciate them. I see what they're doing. And though the state board duties are very limited to lensure and discipline, territory transfers, I'm still here fighting for education for every student every day. there's any thank you that you'd like to thank. >> Thank you. >> At this time, we will continue on uh with Mr. Carol's financial reports. >> All right. Thank you. If you
004have a couple of reports in front of you, first one is the cash reconciliation that shows that we are balanced with the banks. Second report, the financial summary by fund. This is how we are currently appropriated. So the accounting auditors, we have the cash summary. This shows the fund balance and current encumbrances for each fund. This first summary, this is the this shows the checks that we issued during the month of August. We have a general fund graph. At the end of August, we are 17% of the way through the fiscal year and everything looks good according to revenues and expenditures, according to the forecast. You see the percentage there in that last column broken down by payroll benefits. Again, 15% of our payroll budget has been spent, 15% of our benefits budget has been
005spent. Last one, uh, state of Ohio has changed when our forecast is due. So, it is technically due on October 15th, but I needed to submit it this meeting so it can be approved by then, do our board meeting date in October. So this is our forecast. Um there's nothing crazy on this forecast. What I would like to point out the it does look like we are running out of cash in fiscal year 28 but that is because we do have some tax levy renewals on. I have to include that down on 11.01. So, um that is our forecast and I will submit this to the state um by the deadline. A couple other items on the financial agenda. We do have three grants. Um our SOS grant with students for our students. U we
006have our wellness grant and our Perkins grant which we have each year. A couple other items that I wanted to end uh for the budget increases or appropriation modifications. We do have uh one of our bonds. That's the transfer of $54,000. Last year we paid off one of our buildings and there was remaining funds in that bond account and I just wanted to document on here to move it to our other bond account. So it's a fund of fund transfer. Uh that'll go towards our bond payment coming up here for the remaining building that we have. Uh the other item obviously is the forecast and then um every five years we have to renew our depository agreements with each bank. So that is on here as well. Uh one thing I did want to bring
007up is we have a 4% income tax that is expiring at the end of 27th and we have the opportunity to throw that on next May and November if you guys would like. >> All right. Any questions for Mr. referral invention. >> Where are we standing with Nex the Nexus pipeline? So Nexus has settled. Uh Rover is in the process of uh but I don't have a number yet. So that should be coming out in probably the next couple weeks. So Rover has settled as well. Everything that I know is is true for all years. There are some people saying it might just be for 2019, but we don't know yet. car. Every time you guys ask, I feel like I >> I won't know until we actually I get a report from our >>
008Thank you. All right. So, we're going to jump into the financial section of the consent agenda. We need a motion to approve the August 2025 financial reports that we just reviewed with Mr. Carol. We need to accept the following donations. $100 anonymous donation to the student assistance fund as well as well as 3,000 from the 180th officer club for the land and kers memorial fund. We also need to approve the following grants into modified appropriations and amend resources accordingly. Uh 7,500 for SOS and then the NBHP wellness for 2,600 and the Carl Perkins grant for a thousand. We also need to establish the district in tuition rate for the 2526 school year at $12,5759 and the outofstate tuition rate at $12,598.69 as established by the five department of education. We need to approve the following
009transfer appropriations and modifications to amend resources accordingly. There's a short list there at the end of that page as well as the ones Mr. Carol reviews with us on the second page. Last thing is we need to approve I'm sorry it's not the last thing it's that approve the financial forecast to the submitted to Ohio Department of Education for the workforce that we just reviewed with Mr. Carol by October 15 2025 and lastly to approve the following depository agreements for July 31st 2025 through July 31st 2030 for Metamora State Bank. At this time I just need a motion to approve the financial reports and other financial items. >> Move it. >> Questions or discussion? You know, I'm going to ask about cafeteria, right? >> I figured he might. Um, so the 100,000 of this is
010to get us going for the year. It's It's starting off pretty advance for the year. Correct. Uh, the other 100,000 is to finalize our invoice from the previous company. So, he's just settled. So, how's it been? Any indication of how it's been so far this year? I know it's hard to tell. was a pretty short sale. >> Okay. It's it's a slow start. >> Okay. Thank you. >> May I add one one? >> The $3,000 from the 180 that is a group of co-workers from Mr. that they pulled together, came together and raised these funds. Um they hand delivered that check out here a while back. It was pretty easy. >> That's awesome. >> That goes. >> Thank you. Uh, we'll continue with roll call. Mr. Gross. >> Mr. Bul. >> Yes. Mr. Har. Yes.
011Mr. Miller. >> Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. >> Yes. Motion carries. We'll continue on to personnel. We need to accept the resignations of the following. Um, Loosey Cop for bus driver effective August 22nd, 2025. John Alvarter, technology coordinator effective September 15, 2025. We need to offer the following individuals a non-eing one-year limited contract for Lydia Jones 4-hour aid position and Katie Daniels transportation aid for six hours. You need to offer the following supplemental contract for the 2526 school year pending the completion of any and all certification and lure requirements for Amanda Brain mentor teacher Sher Call mentor teacher and Andrea Hassen for mentor teacher. We need to offer the following supplemental contracts for 2526 school year pending the completion of all pupil activity permits. Sarah Fest for head uh softball coach. Chris Owens, head baseball coach.
012Alex Lutheran for head track coach. This time we just need a motion to approve the above listed personnel positions. >> So moved. >> Questions or discussion? Roll call. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Cars. >> Yes. Mr. Miller, >> yes. Mr. Smith, >> yes. Miss Heer, please. >> Yes. Motion carries. We'll move on to other business. Need a motion to allow Evergreen High School student athletes to participate in the 2526 indoor track and field season using the Evergreen High School need. Athletes will be under the supervision of adult volunteers that have people activity people permit and all participation will cease before the beginning of the outdoor track and field season. If approved, the Evergrian local school district will assume no cost or liability for for the indoor track participants and coach and volunteers. >> Questions
013or discussion? >> Roll call. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. Mr. Tar. >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller. >> Yes. Mr. Smith. >> Yes. Mrs. Steven. >> Yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve an Evergreen High School gymnastics club for the 2526 school year. The district will assume no costs associated with the club. All costs including but not limited to transportation, uniforms, entry fees, coaching fees, and participation fees are assumed by the club members. The EHS gymnastics club will be permitted to operate using the Evergreen High School name and board of education logo approved. >> Questions, discussion. >> How many students we have interested in this one? She did last year as well. >> Thank you. Roll call. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Mr. Carr. >> Yes. >> Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. >> Yes. Motion
014carries. >> Need a motion to approve the following cell phone policy to comply with the House Phil. Use of cell phones to support school environments in which students can fully engage with their classmates, their teachers, and instruction. The board of education of Evergreen Local Schools has determined that the use of cell phones by students during school hours should be limited. Students will not possess their cell phones. smart watches or earbuds in the building on school days from 8:00 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. Cell phones remain in student locks or the office during the school day. Students will not access their cell phones, smartwatches, or any at any time from 8 to 250. Upon their request, students can obtain a lock for their lockers in the main office. >> Roll call. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Next question.
015Yeah, >> teachers follow say >> um it's not in the teacher handbook, but they're not expected to use it unless they're on the period. I we had this in place last year. It's just we have to have it on the books for house bill to meet their requirement. So that's why it's on the agenda, but it was in the handbook that we've already approved. >> But I think even for our teachers, it's in their handbook as well that we approved, I believe. So >> all right, roll call. >> Mr. Beck, >> yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. Mr. Miller. >> Yes. Mr. Smith, >> yes. Sad. >> Yes. Motion carries. Leaning a motion to approve a school service contract with Grow Your Mind LLC in Brian, Ohio to provide speech language services to Evergreen students
016attending LEAP during the 2526 school year at a cost of $80 per hour. Last year was 70. An approximate time of one hour per week is recommended at this time. >> So support >> questions or discussion? Roll call. Yes. >> Mr. Carr, >> yes. >> Mr. Miller, >> Yes. Mrs. >> Yes. Motion carried. Mr. At this time, we need a motion to approve the payment of $90,000 to AI learning solutions for a three-hour professional development session on artificial intelligence and education for 45 staff members. Upon completion of professional development session, the staff members will receive their AI and education cert certification. The AI and education certification is fully reimbured for Ohio Tech credit. So moved support >> questions or discussion. >> This was the one that was done a week or two ago. >> Yep.
017This was our PD that he quite successful and well wellreceived. >> Yes, it was. Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Roll call. >> Mr. B. >> Yes. Mr. Car. >> Yes. >> Mr. Miller. >> Yes. Mr. Smith. >> Yes. Motion carries. Mr. Samoa, will you continue with discussion and information? >> Yeah. For documentation purposes, we have listed some teachers who continued their education and moved a column on our pay scale. So, congratulations to them. Just wanted that to be on the record that they're here. So, we have a few teachers there listed. >> All right. Uh, Mr. Frank. >> All right. So, I'm happy to report that things have started off well at the elementary school. We had our open house on the 18th and 19th. We split it up again this year so the
018younger kids would be able to explore the school and not feel so overwhelmed with older kids there as well. Um we had a really good turnout and I wanted to thank our MVP for providing dinner for the staff. Um I'd also like to thank Trent Williams for his hard work and along with the custodial staff as they have our building looking really nice and ready for the school year. Um, one new thing that we're starting, the building leadership team decided to implement a shout out program. So, our students will receive shoutouts from the teachers uh for for exemplifying uh specific traits that we're looking for for respect, being on task, being safe, being good friends, being good helpers. Uh, so that's a really neat way our students will be announced on Fridays and come down
019to the office and receive those shout outs. So, anything we can do to recognize our kids for help for that. Uh our parent teacher conference scheduling went out this past Friday. So parents are encouraged to sign up uh via parent square. Each teacher sent out those lists to their to the parents and the kids in their class. Uh one thing that we'd like to get community involvement with is our Viking Succeed mentoring program. So we're looking for community members who are willing to come in and be mentors for some of our students. and these would be uh mainly coming into tutor and reading and math. So there's a in the board notes there's a link where people could sign up for that. It's also uh Jenny is also sending that out in the district newsletter.
020Uh last thing uh the EES first graders just welcomed their grandparents to school this past Friday and we had a huge turnout. We had to set up extra tables and chairs. Uh last year there were five different classes of first graders and this year we only have four classes of first graders and uh we've even had more people here this year with only four classes. So the we're seeing the numbers growable by the sounds of this. So uh next year we're excited to have to set up an expanded area for that. So thank you very >> Thank you Mr. Frank. >> Any questions for Mr. Frank? >> Awesome Mr. >> Good evening. Uh quick middle school update for you. Uh we have our first people's champs of the year. I say champs because we actually
021awarded two for the first month of school. Remember these are teacher recommendations. So peers or staff recognizing each other. Kelsey Wolf uh was recognized for her dedication to our building. Um if you haven't seen her lately, it's because she's extremely busy coaching a volleyball team, helping lead our steam program, and just you know being a sixth grade on top of all that. Um the other one that we want to recognize is Brent Wilder. He's on the go with our district for about nine months now on the custodial staff. Uh Brent's been an awesome breath of fresh air to have in building as far as somebody who doesn't complain, does whatever's asked him and he does everything with a positive attitude around our building. So the whole staff in general is pleased with how the middle
022school plan look. Um started the year with a lot of the same things we did last year. We did an orientation night on the 18th. We did a little bit different this year where we just had the uh fifth graders in for the first hour kind of giving them the biggest amount of space and most attention and then we had all the returning kids six through eight come to the second half the orientation and overall that went pretty good this year. Uh made a couple few improvements to make everything streamlined for families. Uh we want to thank MVP because they fed us at night. They do this four or five times a year for us which is always really much appreciated by the staff. We did a stagger start as well to start this year.
023Uh based on last year's feedback it was really popular. not just with uh students. Obviously, they don't mind the stagger start, but the teachers and the parents enjoyed it. Um year two, same idea. It went really well. We had fit for seventh grade for the first day and sixth and eighth for the second day and then everybody on that Friday together. So, it's a good start to the year. Kind of allowed us the flow of the building happening in a way that doesn't cause the stress stress or anxiety for the kids. Um we're continuing our house program um with our six houses. Uh I want to just kind of bring up uh we did the coin drive challenge for the cure kind of associated with the FFA to ask us if we'd participate and the
024middle school middle school did really good with this. Uh our house competed against each other and uh but collectively we raised over $210 as a building um for that. So Miss Sal was pretty stoked to see how much that kids would bring in. Um we're going to have our first amazing shake practices next week. We had our first lesson last Friday. So, our sixth and seventh graders are going to continue that program. Um, we'll have a lot of people from the district working that first practice for us, but we're excited to continue that. And last but not least, I wanted to give recognition to um Cindy Williams and Designex and also uh Tom Wolf and Union Bank. Both of them have made donations to our amazing shake program so we can continue doing what we're
025doing. They've both been part of it in the past as far as helping as a volunteer, but also seeing what our kids are growing and doing in and so they're both more than willing to to donate right away. So, any questions? >> Mr. Riffer, >> good evening. Not to sound redundant, but we got off to a great start at the high school. I met with almost every individual staff member. I had a chance to talk to him. The transition to seven periods has been smooth. Um, it's been helpful to have enrichment every day. Um, I want to thank you guys for approving and Mr. Dole for the uh camera system. It is money well spent. It is awesome. Very helpful. Um it's a good way to keep an eye on building and security. So, thank
026you for that. That's been um very helpful. Uh we do have our homecoming big ticket item coming up October 3rd is Friday. So, we usually start the week before that with our Clash of the Classes. I did want to highlight this year we're uh working with the athletic boosters uh to put together a community parade. Um each grade level is going to create a float with on trucks or trailers and then the attendance will be on that and I believe they're opening it up to other community organizations EYA whoever um wants to get involved. Um and then we just got to finalize the parade route. So that'll start at 5 go around the campus and then it'll end up by the football field. So more information I know Katie Alenor's leading that so more information
027will be coming out but mark your calendars for that. Um as everything is a part of the athletic department strategic plan we are trying to improve engagement community involvement. Um we have enlisted 10 uh students who we kind of identified to be some leaders our spirit squad leaders trying to get some positive change in student sections and involvement more from the kids at sporting events and that kind of thing. So we're working with them on that. Um another example of student leadership uh our student council put on the under the lights on Friday. that was completely student driven. They organized it. They created the flyers. They did everything. I thought it was a great event. We had from 80 to 90 kids hang out afterwards. It was amazing. There was no cell phones. Kids were
028just there and they were playing games and hanging out. So, that was good to see some students put that together all on their own. But other than that, that's all I have. If you have any other questions, >> Mr. Mrs. Bradland >> um transportation department had their spotting inspections for the buses August 6th and August 7th um to start off the school year. All 31 buses passed New York inspections um thanks to our mechanic Jeff Abrams. The bus drivers had their annual 4-hour inservice um August 4th. It was the second part of a two-part series. The first part was last year in Archbold. It was a start training and it stands for school transportation active threat response training. So we had the in-class portion last year in art um which was was provided by the
029NWC and this year we had some grants available that Dr. Dolores Schwinberg helped us get um and pay for the second part which was an on the bus training. Um, we literally got on the bus. We were uh had a pretend handcap gun and they fired it off and we were doing some maneuverability um trying to throw them off and it was really good to have some um you know on the bus training with with that sort of scenario. Um so our team has been trained to identify suspicious items left on or near a bus. Um we they helped us build tr learn how to build trust with the students and the parents. Recognize early warning signs of potential threats. Like I said, we also practice the safe safe evasive maneuvers to help disrupt any
030active threat situations that would possibly happen on a bus. Um, most of our drivers, and I say we'll I say most because I think there's one or two that are new drivers that are possibly not certified for CPR and first aid, but most of our drivers are now CPR and first aid certified um, thanks to the training that they had completed last year. Um, and just so we know, as school buses serve as mobile classrooms, our drivers are prepared to act as first responders in the event of a crisis. This school year we started off with 20 bus drivers. So all of our routes are currently filled. We had last year we had one driver that was not available put in there. Whatever. Anyways, we didn't have we were down one driver. We had to
031disperse that route. This year we have um all 20 routes that are moving and we have three substitute bus drivers with one being trained at this time. So we're pretty good. Um, lastly, we no longer have uh students enrolled in IEC. We are currently using the Leap Center that is in Wasan. So, we now transport students to and from five schools, not six. Um, we have Evergreen, we have the Leap School, we have New Horizons out in Wasan, the four county career center, and Holy Trinity. Um, we currently transport 969 students out of 1,278 that I have listed in my easy routing software. Any questions? >> No question. Thank you. And this is >> students. >> Dr. Swinford. >> Today was pretty exciting. Um the state released the local report cards for schools and districts.
032Um I am happy to share that our district did include overall rating. So in front of you, you have a packet. Um in that packet, I'm going to kind of go through it pretty quickly. Um but first of all I wanted to share we are a 4.5 star of fivear district. Downfall is if we would have improved either our um college career workforce military component to two stars to three stars or our literacy early literacy from three stars to four stars meaning would have been a five star district. So we are that close that close. Okay, the first sheet um just kind of talks a little bit overall. Um it has slightly changed because they have added that sixth component of the career um college career workforce and military readiness component. So now there are
033six components instead of five. And if you look at the bottom, this is directly from the state um and you can see where we fall as far as overall rating at as a district level. We are one of 95 um schools in the state of Ohio that have made four and a half stars. On the next page in your packet, it actually breaks it down by achievement by the different components achievement, progress, gap closing, early literacy, graduation, and that college career workforce and military readiness. So when I go through that, if um underneath it, you can see overall as a district for achievement, we were five stars. Everything that is highlighted in green is an improvement from last year. And if you actually want to look at the page three, that is um looking at
034last year's report card. So you can actually see both of them in front of you. So we went from four stars to five stars for the progress component. And right now I'm just talking district-wide. I'm not talking individual buildings. for the progress which is looking at how our students grow from year to year growth expectations. Um in education terms it's value added. So both of those components are tied to state testing. We went from three stars to four stars. The next one is early literacy. So it's looking at K2 literacy, K3 literacy. It's also looking at promotion of fourth grade as well as the um third grade reading um assessment state assessment but it's only looking at that reading sub it's not or not adding that writing piece in. So we did go down here
035from three star or from four stars down to three gap closing. This is looking at individual subgroups and closing those gaps. Another one tied to state testing. Um we went from four stars up to five stars this year. Chronic absenteeism also improved. Um we went down about a percent and a half here which is awesome. Graduation component. So the graduation component is made up of two cohorts, a four-year cohort and a five-year cohort. The four year the four-year cohort is the class of 24. The fiveear is the class of 23. So with that being said, we are five stars. um when I look at the individual cohorts the four or the five four year was 400 was 100% so we approved there we did go down in the five-year cohort so thinking about that those
036are students there are six students that fall in that category as non-graduates they could be they pursue a GED they could be our students that have that year 13 year 14 that maybe go to for county for that extra year okay or it's students that have dropped out so if you think about our class sizes. Um we have about 80 to 100 students and four kids can have or excuse me six students could really have a huge impact. The next piece uh gifted we um met progress but we did not meet the other two components of performance index and gifted um services and identification. Just so you know, gifted identification and services, that is one I was in a meeting just on a webinar earlier today and that is with gifted coordinators and that is
037one that across the state everyone knows about. But I'm not trying to make excuses there. Um the last one, this is that new component. Um so we only received two stars with that. If you look at the percentage though, um last year we were at it only gave us 69.8% because it was not rated as a a star rating. we went down to 60%. Um, with that being said, um, we left about 390 or 369, um, college credit, um, credits on the tape. So, what that is, that's a reporting. It looks at um, how things are put in power school. So, our CCP courses put in power school and how it's connected to reporting through EMS. Um I have reached out to NWA because this is an area that is our era our error that
038can easily be fixed. Okay. So hopefully next year we will be at least a fourst star here. So the other piece of that was the military. Um a student is enlisted in the military as well. So um those are two areas but the biggest one was that CCP. Uh the page four that you have is looking how we compare to those um Fton County districts. I was able to go into the Ohio Department of Education and workforce website and look up individual um district report cards. As you can see um we are the top one that we have. So that's pretty exciting to share. And then the next couple pages I just kind of wanted to share overall the strengths. So looking as a district, we improved um in quite a few of our components.
039We also improved in performance index. Performance index again is tied with state testing is looking at the different categories um whether they are limited, bas basic, limited, proficient um and all of those. So it's how our students are doing. I think the biggest one though is important to share is that chronic absentes. By decreasing that, that means our students are in school a lot. That which is awesome here. The elementary showed significant growth in fourth grade math for the second year in a row. They also increased their performance index as well as their overall rating. Same with the middle school. Improved overall rating to four stars. Improved their performance index. Saw significant growth for the second year in a row for seventh grade math. and they also decreased their tonic acid using high school overall
040improved even though we did not give that only had two stars for the CCW um military workforce readiness CCWR component um they still have four and a half stars uh significant growth by a large magnitude this year is algebra one for the second year government and then we also exceeded growth in American history and then you could also see the decrease in in front absenteeism. I think one thing though to keep in mind when we're looking at those graduation cohorts, I found it very interesting. So, what the state looks at is our the students that are with us from grade 9 through grade 12. So, you can see on here for the four-year cohort, we have 79.3% of our students um complete from starting in grade nine all the way through grade 12. So that's
041whether that's transfer in or out. So we do have some areas of concern. Um like I had mentioned already was the college career readiness and what we're going to be doing with that. The next one is early literacy um where we're going down. Um as well I have met with Mr. Franks already. We are looking as far as um our reading interventions and how those reading interventions are being um service to our students. The other part is this year we are up for a K through five um curriculum resource adoption with that the state has provided rubrics that we must use that is aligned to the science of reading. Our current curriculum is um but it really is going more in depth into that with that regret. So we will be doing that. I think
042one of the biggest things though that really stuck out to me is so it looks at our fall of 23 diagnostic assessments in K3 as well as our fall diagnostic assessments in 2024 and in 2023 we had 73 students not on track. We only moved 30 students being on track in 2024. So that's why we're really focusing on those interventions and supports for those foundational skills. >> See what else do we have? >> So the next thing um we really going to be meeting with the individual building principles with Mr. Samola. We're going to be reviewing that report card data kind of giving a general overview and then we'll have a deeper dive. um November 14th, we are going to be conducting our roots analysis with the support of the the Northwest Ohio State seat.
043So, we're going to be spending that is going to be the focus of our professional development day on November 14th. Um we are also bringing back a mentoring program as you heard earlier at the elementary that's going to support students in math as well as reading. We are really um focusing heavily on the implementation of the MTSS process at all building levels and having meetings about that. A great asset to our team is our school psychologist Theresa Torio. She's bringing a lot of great resources as well this whole process. We'll continue to um analyze assessment data and that's all across. It's not just state testing. We're looking at diagnostics. We're looking at web exams as well. We will continue to offer professional development towards gifted for our teachers as well. And then like I said,
044one another piece is the fidelity checklist. One of the things that Mr. Frank and I spoke about was we have Wharton Gillingham and Heerty the name of awareness at the elementary and we want to just make sure everyone that's been everyone has been trained that we want to make sure those as well as being used with fidelity. um our first grade team has shared last week that they are seeing great success with the kindergarten use. So we want to make sure that's being used across we'll also continue to evaluate our procedures um as far as reporting and um what we're using as well and stuff. So one key thing though to remember is that this is only one snapshot in time and stuff. So there are a lot of great things that are going on
045in our classrooms. Are we a fivestar district? Are we number one in the state? We are not. So, we have learners, but we do have some things to be definitely proud of. And then um the last is what people see on the Ohio Department of Education and work force. >> Any questions? >> I do on the college career workforce. >> Yes. >> What's two stars? Okay. Well, the worst in the column. >> We are. >> You said you said there's there's there's a problem of not reporting. >> Are they also having trouble or is it just us? >> Um ours is a reporting piece. Ours is the one. >> Ours is the reporting. >> Absolutely. And I did um reach out to Noaka this morning to get a session set up for Mr. Refer, Mrs.
046Brain, Mrs. Naggie, and myself to go and sit down and have a small session with them to make sure that it's being reported publicly. >> Thank you. >> Any other questions? >> And we will share more with the public. Like I said, they just came out of town this had a chance to get some together. >> Thank you, Dr. >> Any further questions? >> All right, Mr. Smalla, >> couple things to add. Uh, in conjunction with our strategic plan goal, too, to promote a cohesive culture to empower our students. Uh, the administrative team has begun developing a comprehensive plan for the school year to address bullying in all of our buildings. They're working with building leadership teams and student leaders to develop that comprehensive approach. So, we hit it um at all levels and throughout
047the entire school year. So, it's not, you know, one speaker coming in and doing a presentation, but we've got continuity with what we're developing. And then Fton County superintendents are scheduled to meet with Representative Jim Hoops this Friday to discuss school funding and proposed property tax reform initiatives in Ohio. We also have a meeting scheduled for October 17th with Senator Rob McCaulay. Our goal is to have our voices heard and have our voices heard and the impact that reduced funding will have on our districts if some of these uh measures go through. We plan to continue to send school related legislative updates to our families. There are currently nine pieces of legislation proposed that would negatively impact our districts. We think it's important our communities are aware and understand how our students will be effective
048if this legislation is passed. So, the legal updates we'll be sending out will have your rights matter in the subject line. So, we get a lot of feedback on the first one we sent out and we're going to continue that. We were originally looking to do them monthly. Now, we're going to do them bi-weekly. Any questions? >> I don't think so. Thank you, Mr. Smile. Are there any board members with questions and concerns at this time? Is >> there any way we can get all the superintendent in our county to send the reps to have like a forum where they come out talk to our community? So I get what is there eight schools or whatever involved in it >> and have them answer the questions about the consolidation. >> I will see what I
049can do. Um, >> I think that's the best thing if they'll do it or not. >> I will make the request and we'll see and I will follow up. >> Not sure that will happen, but we'll see what we can do. >> Community members can ask too though, right? I mean, they can >> we can request as well. >> Yes, absolutely. >> So, if we just get a lot of requests going, >> you know, Arion, Delta, all the schools, >> we can always do a joint school board one. I can pull something together if you guys want me to and then bring >> I can talk to Representative Hoops this Friday and see if he's open to it and then propose something to Senator McCaulay as well. >> All right. >> Anything further from board
050members? All right. Then a motion to adjourn the September 15, 2025 regular meeting of the local board of education. >> Move. Roll call. Mr. >> Yes. Yes. Mr. >> Yes. Carries.