001All right, we're going to call the May 19th meeting to order. Roll call. Here, Mr. Carr here. Mr. Miller here. Mr. Smith here. Mrs. Keer here. This time we will do the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Okay. 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 need a motion to approve the meeting agenda as presented for the regular board meeting on May 19th. Roll call. Yes. Yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the minutes of the regular board meeting held on April
00221st, 2025. Move. Support. Roll call. Mr. Vul. Yes. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Lo. Yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Keeper, yes. Motion carries. Are there any board members with correspondence? No. Mr. Carol, Mr. Smos, I received notice of resignation from Barry Bach and Jessica Ryard. Thank you. Will you continue recognizing our guest among guests with us? Thank you for being here. Please just introduce yourself. Yep. Adria, Amber Hansel, Diane Pickering, Rab Sing, Sher Brown, Rick Schmidley, Dr. Dolores Fineberg, Brady Roofer, Taylor Johnson, Alex Jenner. Thank you everyone. Uh we will start right now with a presentation by FFA state treasurer, Miss Taylor Johnson. Thank you. Good afternoon everyone. I'm Taylor Johnson, a recent graduate from Evergreen High School. Today I'm going to be sharing my journey to Ohio FFA state office and give some insight on
003what my year will look like. So, after months of preparation, late nights of perfecting my application, mock interviews, and endless self-reflection, the moment finally came. My name was called at the Ohio FFA State Convention. And just like that, I became an Ohio FFA state officer. But before I tell you about the honor of serving, I would like to walk you through what it took for me to get here. The process to become an Ohio FFA state officer starts long before convention week. First, you must submit a detailed application. It includes everything from your FFA achievements to your leadership roles to an essay about why you desire to serve. It's your first chance to show the nominate nominating committee who you are on paper. If selected to move forward, you go through a rigorous interview process
004that includes a personal interview and a scenario interview as well. Each part each part of the interview will end with a panel of judges and it is designed to challenge your communication, teamwork, and leadership skills. And yes, it's stressful. You feel like your whole FFA career comes down to just a few hours. Then the hardest part of all was waiting. Waiting for about a month to figure out that what the rest of the next year would hold for me. But once my name was called, everything I knew was needed to happen for a reason. I I found my stress turning into purpose. Serving as a state officer is not just for the title. It's a full-time responsibility. I traded my summer break for training and traveling across Ohio and building a bond with my office
005team that will become like family. Throughout the year, I will visit chapters. So, I'll visit other schools, um, FFA and ACT programs. I will lead workshops with them, speak at conferences and different award banquetss, and I will work to represent over 30,000 Ohio FFA members. I'll put thousands of miles on the road and spend more night in in hotels and at friend's house than I will my own bed. I'll miss some of my sister's sporting events or homecoming preparation and probably a few holidays at home. But what I but what I will gain is great is far greater. I will get the chance to inspire the next generation of FFA members. I will grow into a stronger leader and experience firsthand what it means to serve something bigger than yourself. I would like to take
006over takes I would like to take a moment to sincerely thank the evergreen community for their unwavering support and everyone who has helped me become the person that I am today. Thank you. Thank you, Taylor. Very proud of you. Thank you. Um we're going to continue on to the playground committee. Hello everyone. We are the members of the playground committee and we are excited to share with you what we have been working on for our school over the last four weeks 23 24 school year. We had what might have been a record year for new kindergarteners. Along this amazing loop we had a number of students with physical needs. As we watched them on the playground, we saw how little of the playground surface they could utilize with us. We also realized that there was
007no equipment for them to access independently without adult support. Later in the year on April 17th, 2024, Mrs. Pollson with a group of students and teachers to the all-inclusive playground in Bowling Green as part of the Cleveland Cleveland College AGSU Special Olympic field trip. This trip sparked a desire in two of our kindergarten teacher sports to work towards having an inclusive playground at our school, one that all of our students would have independent access to. The idea was born in a movement towards the goal we had. Principal Brown felt it was important to gather as much information as possible before involving Ruth of district staff to help with the project. She did not want to get any hopes up and then the project would become too big and not due. Through a conversation that I
008had with principal breath, she learned about Sylvania's current efforts to create an inclusive playground. I also shared that the organization Wood County Place had been a big part of the theories for inclusive playground organiz and principal Brown then shared about her hopes to begin the same project here at Earth. We decided to reach out to Mr. Ryan Weekin from W. He and his wife run an organization would come to play. This organization also played a park in the BG inclusive playground. Principal Brown and I went to our meeting in September 25th 24th with Mr. Leman hoping that the organization might be able to help with financial contribution but unfortunately their funds are typically reserved for Wood County. We did however leave with a lot of information and resources about the process, playground companies and alternative
009funds. This meeting gave principal Brown the motivation to reach out to local skill companies asking them to join the collaboration to make the dream of a new playground a reality. On December 4th, 2024, Principal Brown emailed the entire staff to invite anyone interested in being a part of plan the planning process for the first playground committee meeting. At this meeting, we all felt passionate about bringing this dream to a reality and decided we had the ground running. We decided the best starting point would be to continue the research Mrs. Brown has started. Some of the topics included what are the ADA compliance standards and recommendations? What is the recommend recommended lifespan of playground equipment and how old is our current equipment? What resources and programs are available to offer guidance and resources for inclusive playground
010projects? And would there be community support? Would there be any local businesses or organizations interested in collaborating on that project? As we began researching these topics, more questions arose and more research was completed. Principal Brown met with local steel companies to learn about any ways, be it resources, ideas, or financial support that they could um help us move forward with this project. We received recommendations and suggestions from the organizations and companies leading us to new resources, ideas, and plans. March arrived and we felt we had a solid plan, a reasonable quote for the project and the start of some community school. Principal Brown had a meeting on the calendar with Mr. Small and Dr. Swinberg to discuss another topic as well as the door project. She decided to add the playground project to the meeting
011agenda. At this March 14th meeting, Principal Brown presented the playground idea, the support we had received, and ideas for ways to raise funds were discussed. At the end of the meeting, Mr. Small gave his blessing for the project to continue. At that point, we pushed forward to find a way to get the students and community excited about the upcoming plagiar project and let them feel a part of the process. We decided a plane drive would be a great way to start and were thrilled to get the idea out to families. We met to finalize a flyer then got the word out to parents through the parent square on April 12th. As the information about the playground has begun reaching more of the community, we have received questions about how this project is being funded. Everyone
012would like to know why we didn't start by asking the district to fund the project. This is a very valid question. There are actually a few reasons why we chose to start with fundraising for this project and wait to approach the district for financial support. First, historically big projects like this have not been district funded, but funded by the community through parent groups and booster organizations. Some of these projects include the original playground um was funded by MVP, formerly EPA. The shelter on the back playground was funded by EPA. The synchronized clock systems including the digital clock at the main doors of the elementary were purchased by EPA. All front playground updates, the two fence expansions, additional swings that have been funded by MVP. The sidewalk from the elementary to the high school was funded
013by EPA. um the upkeep of the baseball and softball fields by parent volunteers. MVP has also funded many technology upgrades including amplification systems, iPads, iPad projectors and charging parts, smartboards, and microphones. Two, we knew this would be an expensive project. We wanted to be able to show that raising the money would be feasible and that we were willing to put the work in to help with financial burden. Three, we wanted to show that the community would support tax dollars being used to help fund this project. Four, looking at surrounding school districts who are actively working towards or in the past have done playground projects, ask the community and local businesses to financially support their projects. As a staff, we have seen a lot of funding requests that we feel are more of a priority than
014a playground upgrade upgrade turned down. So we suspected that this project at full cost would be turned on as well. The above reasons are why we chose to start our collaborations with MVP and the community. Waiting until this point to appro approach the district to help with funding for this project. We wanted to get enough funds to show that this project is financially feasible. We also wanted to show that it is a project that is supported by the community. As of today, we have raised $9,124 through the community's donation to the small change for a big change fundraiser and through business contributions. We also have a business who is willing to donate the labor to remove the mulch from the current labor. MVP has generously contributed $19,500. In total, we have raised $28,624, which we
015feel is amazing. We recently learned that Wood County Plays has not received many requests, and so we may be able to receive support from them. The grant application has been submitted, and if approved, we could receive another $10,000. We hope to continue our fundraising efforts to continue reaching our $150,000 goal. At this time, we would like to ask the district to consider joining our collaboration to help fund this project. As we have shared, we understand that this is an expensive project and understand that you need to consider what makes the most financial sense for the district. We are happy to answer questions you may have to make the best decision. At the very least, we hope we have your full support to continue moving forward and work toward providing an amazing play space that can
016be easily utilized by all of the children. The next part of our presentation will be a slideshow and I have handouts of the visuals for each of you. show. Yes, I just can't screen long as I have it here. Good. All right. So, during our research, we've learned a lot of information. Uh, we learned that the life expectancy of most playgrounds is roughly 20 years. Um, and our current playground at the elementary will be 30 years in April of 2026. The original quote, we looked at a couple different companies and the original quote with the equipment and surfacing was just under 400,000 with 386,136.35. Like we said in our letter um that we've reduced that final cost to roughly $150,000. We also learned that no permit is needed for our representative with Gain Time, which
017is the company that we're proposing to go through. And we've also made sure to include sensory pieces, handicap accessible equipment, and surfacing to accommodate all. We also considered slides um that are not enclosed to be sure that all students are visible at all times, which is a current concern that we have on our current playground. The proposed playground has some inclusive features that offer a level flat torque surface, a sensory wave wall, swing double rider with adaptive safety belts, a duo swing seat, Melody drones and shines, wheelchair accessible spinner, and then partial shape coverage. And then the next um slides are the pictures or the images of what we are proposing. And so you can see this is just kind of a top down aerial view. Current setup, the swing staying in the same place,
018but a few adjustments. You'll notice um you'll also notice that there are um three total slides with opportunities for multiple children to go down at the same time. I think like six kids could go down safely to slide at the same time. Um, monkey bars are another feature that is um, added that we currently do not have with another side view of the structure itself. some musical elements that are added, the sensory wave wall, and then these um standalone um structures I really think are I'm really excited about because they not only are just accessible for students um with physical disabilities, but they truly promote inclusive play with their same age peers. Um, like I said, we've got some different quotes from different companies. We looked at three different ones. Um, Landscape Structures was our
019first one, and that one was just around $400,000, just under. Then we looked at Game Time, um, and the playground structure came at $116,884.89. and then through a very generous community member um gave us a referral um and had a connection with Urban Green skates which they are um a servicing um company and they quoted us $26,543. You'll see that significant um price change um between the level servicing um and that is because of the connection that a very generous community member has timeline. Um we know that once payment is received it takes about 8 weeks to get the materials and once the materials arrive the installation takes a week and the flat surface um will be determined in the near future. Um we haven't had that discussion yet. And you questions. So there where
020it's at right now is everything that is on here would fit right where it's at right now. There be nothing. We're looking at $122,000 the goal right now. 20 20,000 in unless we get that arena. We're able to get that $10,000 to reduce the filing cost. The surface would be similar to like the track surface. Correct. It would be a turf surface like a brass flat turf surface. Gotcha. Like an artificial turf like the field or like the track. Uh I have to I guess I have to see the difference in the two. Okay. Um, but it's something that wheelchairs and travel lacrosse same as walkers. Um, because we have students with both, so it's accessible for all. Northwood has playground similar to that. Is anyone here familiar with it? Okay. I visited a few
021but not not that one. Which one? I'm sorry. Northwood. Oh, we we during wrestling tournaments between we walk around and Yeah. They have a flat surface. It's more like it's more like the running surface on the track as opposed to the football field. And I was just curious. There is a a rubber type that you can get that comes with a 5year warranty. This surfacing comes with a 20-year and it's very comparable in price. So, we thought why why do something for 5 years when we can have it for 20 um the life of the playground or longer. So, that's why we decided on the turf. Thank you. that that's the maintenance is just that every total years there besides anything but is there any other um you may have to put sand like like
022other turf surfaces but other than that um nothing else that I'm aware of. So you think 10 to 12 weeks if you're looking to do it in the summer. We would like to if we could um it would be great to have it ready for the kids when they come back. Um, but they also I did talk to the lady just recently about the tariffs that are being enacted right now. Um, she said if if it's something we're able to do, if we're able to do it just after um June, because June 1st is when their price increase goes up because of the tariffs. Um, so if we can do it even within a few weeks of that, they'll be able to wave those for us. When would you be able to know about the
023Wood County grant? Did he have a timeline? Uh August 1st is when when we find out for sure. We can they'll call back to see if they've received any because odds are if we are the only one because at the time we call there weren't any applicants. Um so if we are the only one, we're hoping that we would receive it. And Ryan Leapman also said um he would help promote it um on the news for us if that's something we're interested in. What What is the terms like if you order today? Is it 30% 10%? What needs to be down? You know, I I hadn't gotten that part, but I can find out if that's something you're interested in in knowing. Okay. um eight eight weeks and when or how long it's going to
024take Herman to come correct when I done I'm trying to start before school do before there's no ter willing to make a decision tonight is the board want to put it on the next agenda. Where is everybody set? I'm done. Are you two comfortable? You want to have discussion and put it next month or are you Thing is we do it next month. We have kind of behind you. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you may need some of those pieces of information and if you would like us to get that before you make a decision, um, we're happy to do that. Sorry, I'm talking. I would say I'll go with look and see if you could do it with yours. If it's 10 20%, you down, right? Get that going then next month. I say at
025this point the board supports Yeah. the playground completely and like Jason just said, we can get that first payment out under yours and we don't need to wait for us to go ahead and move along with them. Okay. Cool. All right. Thank you. Thank you very much. All right. We'll jump right in with Mr. Carol's financial reports. All right. Thank you. um stacks of papers in the front of you cash reconciliation form with shows that we are balanced with with the banks. We have our financial summary by fund. This is how we are appropriated and the cash summary reported showing the balance that we have in each of our funds. The dispersement summary. These are the dispersements that we checks that we issued during the month month of April. First graph graph you see are
026the our revenue and expenses compared to our forecast. End of April we are 83% of the way through our fiscal year which wraps up here June 30th. Next graph is our payroll and benefits broken down. Uh compared to our forecast, we are we have spent 83% of our payroll budget and 83% of our benefits budget. We received our final income tax collection puts us up 13% um over last year. Then the five-year forecast two items that I wanted to kind of touch on here. Um the third line down you see the income tax for fiscal year 28 and 29 those numbers decrease because it is up for renewal. So you will see that down at the bottom um line 11 you'll see those added in there. So they are broken out because they're it's not
027guaranteed money. Uh the other item under capital outlay under expenditures uh for fiscal year 25 we do have a significant increase. That's because we uh purchased an extra bus that I wasn't planning on um for insurance purposes. And then next year um later in the agenda, we will be voting on purchasing a bus with a lift, but that won't be ready to pay until next fiscal year. So, it is kind of odd. So, there's a little bit of a jump there. Um on the agenda, we do have two donations, which we're very grateful for. Then we have a bunch of appropriation modifications. These are just um switching our budget as we approach the end of the year and kind of finalizing our numbers. That is all that I have. Any questions for Mr. Carol right
028now? All right. Thank you. So, we're going to jump right into the financial section recommended by Brian Carroll, treasurer to approve the following financial items. To approve the April 2025 financial reports we just reviewed. to accept the following donations. $100 anonymous donation to the student assistance fund, $334.36 from Fton County Porks Producers to FFA. Also to approve the following appropriations modifications and amend resources accordingly. Increase the general activity elementary for 6,000. Increase the capital projects for $37,799.98. Increased athletic department for 47,000. FFA for 22,000. Increase the yearbook for 5,000. Increase outdoor education for 5,000. Increase the food services for 75,000. Increase the title four for $24629. Title one $1,73.94. Title 2 $596.84. Decrease to the ARP homeless for $46941. A transfer of $3 million from general fund to capital improvement. transfer of $37,799.98 from general
029fund to the athletic department for wrestling math and a transfer of $200 from student assistance to outdoor education and also to approve the five-year forecasts to be submitted to the private department of education by May 31st, 2025. This time I just need a motion to approve the financial reports and other financial items. Questions or discussion? Rest match finally committ uh they came in last month. We find the paid forms. Now I just have to move on to where we originally are in. Yes. Service 75,000. Still running that. I mean significantly behind still. Yes. Um and partially is because the budget was set low. So I'm just having to add money increase the budget. But then yes, we are having to move money from the general fund. is once the fiscal year is over, we'll have
030a better number for the year. Um, yes. And I mean, we have an RFP out right now. Um, if they get next year's um think they'll have a full year under their belt after a full year. Yes. May I interject real quick? Um, but the playground because of the number the high number if evergreen as far as paying for it. We have a whole list of rules that we have to abide by. So this would have to go out to bid um to give you guys folks and everything from multiple companies and all that paperwork that maybe we could look at that okay just trying to process while going through my financials about how this is going to look since we haven't collected any money. So it's just there's some rules that we have that
031we all have to follow. Just trying to think out loud a little bit, but um I will ahead. All right. Uh roll call. Mr. Bullet, yes. Mr. Carr, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. And we'll move on to personnel. We need to approve John Herdman as a summer custodial worker as needed from June 1st, 2025 until September 30th, 2025. Compensation is set at $13 per hour at a maximum of 40 hours per week. Superintendent or the superintendent said the me will coordinate hours to make all work assignments. Also to approve Ronnie Woods as a summer custodial worker as needed from May 19th, 2025 until September 30th, 2025. Compensation is set at $15 per hour at a maximum of 40 hours per week. Superintendent or the superintendent's design will coordinate hours and make all
032work assignments. We also need to approve an unpaid leave for Roslin coach effective May 1st, 2025. We need to approve the following high school and middle school paid volunteer event workers for 2425 school year. Chris Doerty. We need to accept the resignations of Barry Bach, effective August 30th, 2025, and Jessica Regard, effective May 30th, 2025. Need to offer the following teacher a one-year limited teaching contract effective with the start of the 2526 school year. Tracy Green for high school business teacher. We need to offer the following teachers a one-year limited teaching contract effective with the start of the 2526 school year. Bryce Bailey, Danielle Boger, Sarah Fest, Jennifer Hoffman, Sarah Lewig, Michelle Pollson, Diane Pickering, Eleanor Sutter, Katrina Spect, Amber Hansel, Brian Lamb, Martin Nichols, Thomas Pelagic, Moira Reper, Lindseay Scowin, Emily Turner to offer
033the following teachers a two-year limited contract effective with the start of the 2526 school year. Nicole Bondant, Alex Lutheran, Maline Stewart, Alexis Howell, and Lauren, I'm sorry, Lori Schmidt to offer the following teachers a three-year limited teaching contract effectively the start of the 2526 school year. Sharon Leinsky to offer the following individuals a one-year limited non-eing non-bargaining unit contract commencing on July 1st, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2026. Tess Sutter for district nurse. Andrea Donnu, a one-on-one nurse. John Echelarger, technology coordinator to offer the following individuals a two-year limited non-eing non-bargaining unit contract commencing on July 1st, 2025 and ending June 30th, 2027. Ashley Ferner, assistant treasurer. Trent Williams, the maintenance director, need to offer the following individuals a three-year limited non-eing non-bargaining unit contract commencing on July 1st, 2025, ending June 30th, 2028. Jennifer
034Conrad, communications director. Tony Doble, technology director. Jason Lou, groundskeeper. Melissa Ngi, accounts payable and emis director. Don Bradlin, transportation director, to offer the following individuals a non-eing two-year limited contract effective at the start of 2526 school year. Julie Deval, Cheryl Macintosh, Scott Westbrook, Christine Williams, Jamie God, Michelle Morren, and Brent Wilder to offer the following individuals a non-eing contract continuing contract effective at the start of the 2526 school year. Rita Bran, Vanessa Martinez, Don Kundik, and Tana Mugler. to offer the following supplemental contract for 2526 pending the completion of all peaceful activity permit requirements. Kyle Bosetter head boys basketball coach, John Meyers, head bowling coach. Or Keller, head cheerleading coach. Steve McDow, head cross country coach. Hunter Nolles, head football coach. Matt Gleckler, head girls golf coach. Jake Dawson, head boys golf coach. Jacob Bot,
035head girls soccer coach. David Scozen the second head boys soccer coach, Kelsey Wolf, head volleyball coach, Kyle Keller, head wrestling coach, Don Sprradlin, assistant athletic director, Darcy Feedback, ticket manager, and Santana Verera, athletic trainer. We need to also offer the following supplemental contract for 2526 school year pending completion of all and any certifi certifications and licens requirements. I am not going to read all those. I am sorry. Give you a second to look at enough. We also need to approve the following additional extended days for the 2526 school year. Ashley Ricker, high school secretary for 5 days. Sharon Leinsky, elementary guidance for 5 days. Lindseay Scowin, middle school guidance for 10 days. Manda Bream, high school guidance for 20 days. And Alexis Howell, vocational education for 30 days. We also need to approve the classified
036and certified substitute list provided and maintained by the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center throughout the 2526 school year. Assignments will be made by the superintendent and or the superintendent's designate. We also need to approve the substitute teacher and classified substitute reasonable assurance of employment list for the school year 2526. At this time, I just need a motion to approve the above personnel positions. So move support questions or discussion. All right. Roll call. Mr. Bulan. Yes. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Ste? Yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to offer Joshua Williams a supplemental contract to serve as a head girls basketball coach the 2526 school year pending the completion of all people activity permit requirements. Move. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Mr. Yes. Mr. Carr, no. Mr. Miller, yes. Yes.
037Mrs. Steven, yes. Motion carries. We'll move on to other business. Need a motion to approve a salary increase for all district employees of 4% in the 2526 school year, 3.25% increase from the 2627, a 3% increase in 2728. and update the board employee compensation ranges accordingly. So moved forward. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Mr. Bullet. Yes. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Sus. Yes. Motion carries. A motion to approve an agreement with the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center to provide training support resources and handbooks to all mentor program participants for the 2526 school year. Move. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Mr. Yes. Mr. Park. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to set the cost of preschool tuition to $1,000 for the 2526 school year. Provide a discounted
038price of $950 for families utilizing a one-time payment and a late payment fee of $50, making that $1,000 total for 24 to 25 school year. Smooth support. Is that supposed to be 2526 there? No, it's saying last year. Okay. Last year's awesome. Okay. Any other questions, comments? Mr. Yes. Mr. Car? Yes. Mr. Miller? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve an overnight trip for the high school volleyball team to attend volleyball camp at Hisdale College. Students will depart on July 10th and return July 12th, 2025. Students will stay in dorms on campus. Coach Kelsey Wolf will be the trip supervisor and parents will transport students to the camp. Cost of the trip will be covered by the students and the program. Spork. Question discussion. Roll call. Yes. Sar. Yes,
039Mr. Yes, Mr. Yes, Mr. Keeper. Yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to accept the lowest best bid for repaving portions of campus parking lots and to add a concrete pad to the bus lot from Henry Bergman in Genoa, Ohio at the cost of $179,9151. So move forward. Question discussion. Roll call. Yes. Mr. Bar? Yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Yes. Motion carries. Need to approve an agreement with Secure Tech out of Columbia Station, Ohio to upgrade campus network wiring to accommodate new access control systems and integrate the 911 informed system at a cost of $57,300. Questions, discussion. Roll call. Yes. car. Yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Yes. Motion carries. You need a motion to approve an agreement with Safe Harbor Security and Fire from Vermillion, Ohio to upgrade campus access control
040systems at a cost of $28,745. Question discussion. Roll call. Mr. Mr. Carr, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. M. Yes. Motion carries. Need to authorize a superintendent and treasurer to purchase a diesel bus with an accessibility lift from Cardinal Bus Service and Sales and Service in Limo, Ohio at a discounted price of $135,555. Sports questions, discussion, roll call. Mr. B. Yes. Mr. Tar, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Yes. Mrs. Bever, yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to authorize a superintendent and treasurer to purchase a utility tractor from Hartland Energy USA LLC from Striker, Ohio at a cost of $35,362. Question discussion roll. Yes. Sir, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Yes. Motion carries. We need to authorize Earl Mechanical Services out of Wasan, Ohio to remove and replace the high school hot water boiler
041and the elementary hot water boiler at a total cost of $137,886. Move to board. Questions, discussion, a lot of hot water. Any idea how old the other ones were? original. [Laughter] That's all I had. Call. Yes. Mr. Car? Yes. Mr. Hillary? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mrs. Ke? Yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to approve an agreement with the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center to cooperatively participate in special education services for fiscal years 25 and 26 at a cost of1,271,36.81. The board and Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center agreed that 1,196,36.81 of this amount shall be paid pursuant to the Ohio Revised Code 3313.845 845 for applicable law by having this amount deducted from the board state foundation payment with any remaining balance being invoiced and paid directly to the Northwest Ohio Educational Service Center. So move
042support questions discussion. This is a general discussion for 1.2 million. They provide us with support services aids all of our special needs. Thank you. Yes. Mr. Bar, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mrs. Keeper, yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to approve a memorandum of understanding of the F County Health Department, Board of Health, and every local schools concerning the use of facilities in the event of a public health emergency. Question discussion. Roll call. Yes. Mr. Carr. Yes. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. This is Yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to approve an overnight trip for the high school girls basketball team to attend team camp at Cedar Point, Sanduski, Ohio. Students will depart on June 9th and return June 11th, 2025. Bruce will stay at the Cedar Point Express Hotel in Sanduski, Ohio. Coach
043Josh Williams will be the trip supervisor. School vans and parents will transport students to the camp. Cost of trip will be covered by the program and players. Move. Support. Question or discussion? Roll call. Yes. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Yes. Motion carries. Need Okay, I'm going to read all this. So, sit tight. We need a motion to approve the following resolution in support of the fair school funding plan. Evergreen board of education's resolution in support of the fair school funding plan. Whereas the Ohio Constitution grants a thorough and efficient system of common schools throughout the state. Article 6 section two and Ohio court has repeatedly ruled that the state school funding system must be both adequate and equitable. And whereas nearly 90% of Ohio age children attend Ohio's public schools.
044And whereas a group of school superintendents and treasurers led by state representative Robert Cup and John Patterson developed the fair school funding plan that included a number of recommendations to meet the constitutional mandates. And whereas the 134th Ohio General Assembly passed into law a six-year phase in of the fair school funding plan an appropriated funding which amounted to onethird of the cost of full implementation. And whereas the fair school funding plan was developed using research-driven input to ensure that all Ohio students receive the resources necessary for a high quality education regardless of their zip code. And whereas the current state budget being debated by the state legislators for fiscal year 26 2027 contains provisions that threaten the fair school funding plan which undermine the district's ability to plan for the long term and harms our
045ability to serve our students. And whereas the budget passed by the Ohio House will short change Evergreen Local School District by approximately $140,000 compared to what would be provided by the state under the fair school funding plan. And whereas a fully implemented and regularly updated fair school funding plan benefits all Ohio students by ensuring predictability, adequacy, and fairness in school funding allocations. Whereas the board opposes a provision in substitute House Bill 96 that would cap school districts carryover funds at 30% of the prior year's operating expenses, redirecting any access to reduced property taxes. And whereas districts maintain reserves to manage uncertainty in state funding and to meet 5-year forecasting requirements, making this cap fiscally fiscally irresponsible. And whereas this proposal would undermine financial stability, force cuts to student programs, and increase reliance on local levies.
046And whereas while addressing property taxes is important, this provision should be considered separately from school funding legislation. Now therefore, it be resolved that Evergreen Local Schools Board of Education one expresses strong support for the continued implementation and full funding of the fair school funding plan, including the use of updated researchbased cost inputs that reflect current economic conditions and student needs. Two, opposes the 30% carryover fund cap provision included than substitute House Bill 96 and urges its removal from the budget plan, I'm sorry, budget bill. The board recommends that any proposals related to property tax relief be considered separately and in full cons consultation with education stakeholders. Three calls upon the Ohio general assembly and the governor to uphold their commitment to fair school funding by ensuring that future bienial budgets fully fund the fair school
047funding plan and update local calcul I'm sorry cost calculations to reflect the actual costs of educating Ohio students. Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to members of Ohio General Assembly, the Governor of Ohio, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and other relevant stakeholders to emphasize the need for continued investment in Ohio students and public schools adopted this May 19th, 2025 by the Evergreen Local Board of Education. Support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Mr. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Speaker, yes. Motion carries. Mr. SMA, would you like to take over discussion and information? Yeah. I had one item on here, our strategic plan. The initial draft is completed. It's in your packets. This is an entirely new plan from our previous two strategic plans.
048We use data collected through surveys, uh, building level, and community meetings to determine the areas of focus. We're focusing on four goals. Academics, culture, and engagement, student supports, and facilities. The overarching theme is to look at our curriculum and determine the best way to successfully deliver it to our students from content to instruction to support to facilities. We will continue to develop the plan with strategies to achieve the goals and objectives and present it to the board in June for approval. Any questions? Our last two plans had five goal areas. this when we're down to four. We've accomp accomplished a lot with the last ones and again this gives us our direction we want to go for the future. Awesome. Any questions for Mr. Small? All right, Mrs. Brown. Good evening. Wanted to thank Mr.
049set meer for the amazing art projects that she helped the children create through the district art show. Um, also our turnout for the tea party on April 27th was amazing. We had um, people show up for that. So, I want to thank MVP and our teacher team that all band together to help make that event amazing. Also want to recognize Mr. Dogles who goes above and beyond always to help us anytime we need it uh, for assistance at the elementary. He has been phenomenal. Um all the help and assistance he's given to us. Also wanted to let you know that and roster verification have been completed for all of our teachers. Thank goodness over um and on Friday, May 2nd, we hosted a substitute lunchon where our um staff got together, created a wonderful lunchon
050for all of our substitutes that come throughout the year. And um we had several of them attend because they were actually in our building. um they appreciated and we were able to give them gift cards um some little plants just to show our appreciation and lunch of the day. So it was it was a really nice event um that our staff created for them. Also wanted to thank MVP for a wonderful staff appreciation week. Uh they provided our staff with so many wonderful treats, gift cards, and just appreciation overall. Um they they're pretty amazing to us in school. Very appreciative. Mr. Torrance, if you were able to make it out, he had an amazing spring fire performance on May 7th for our families. Um, every family that I spoke to that evening had nothing but
051amazing things to say about him and our 107 students that are involved in um, our choir. So, he continues to go above and beyond in everything that he does for us. So, we're so fortunate to have him. We also wrapped up lifewise on May 9th. Mr. Small and I met with our Lifewise facilitators on May 13th to discuss possible teacher survey that was sent out to our staff. Um, also feedback on the program and plans for next school year. So, hoping to talk with them a little bit more about those things. Dr. Schwinford and I also met with Mrs. Ford and Mrs. Weise to discuss feedback on the Viking Voyage tutoring that took place this year. It was outstanding. We had we've had the since I've been here, we've had the most students in that
052tendering program with the help of our high school mentors and middle school mentors that came over. It was awesome to see. They had so much structure um a lot of collaboration between um the facilitators and our teachers. So, it was very a very meaningful process for our students which was nice to see. The money uh that was donated for that through the grant was very very beneficial, very much appreciated. Um, and it sounds like through the feedback um that was given, we're hoping that we receive additional funding for that um with the help of Dr. Schwinberg. Mr. Pulichek um is finishing up the final touches on field day. He is creating an awesome day um including we were hoping a dump tank, but it doesn't sound like that's going to be possible due to the
053weather and the cold temperatures. But that's going to be this Friday, May 23rd. and wanted to let all of our families in the community know we appreciate all the donations coming in because that helps make it so much more fun and easier for us to to handle that event. Egg Day was a huge success. We want to thank Miss Powell for the efforts she put in um above and beyond. Our kids came back. They were raving about the day getting to get up on those tractors and do all the activities and events. Um so they had a great time. So um Miss Powell did an amazing job. So thanks. That's right. Thank you. Um, our teachers wrapped up class lists this past weekend um for final approval. Um, we are going to get those sent
054out soon so that we can prepare letters for our families for um the 2526 school year. Also, our fourth grade students will be celebrated and recognized on May 29th. I apologize. I put in there April 29th. It is May 29th. Um, our families are more than welcome to come. We'd love to have them um to attend this event. Our students will receive awards and they'll get to take their final walk through the elementary building. So, we're excited to have them do that. We also did receive our math state test scores. Our ELA state test scores have not come in yet. So, I was hoping at the June meeting I would give you the full um full report on our state test results. Just I want to bring some start. field day will start right away.
055Um our volunteers come in at 8:00. So we'll begin shortly after that. We do have to get we're going to have screen in the gym the four different um areas I guess and so that they're either going to come Thursday after school or Friday morning. So we're hoping that get started right by Tuesday. If fourth grade awards the morning they are in the afternoon I believe it's 12:30. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Sim, do you have Mr. Boler? I do. Coler is unable to be here. Wanted me to share some items with the board. Uh, one of them being the May people's champ who is debard this month. Uh, who said is a positive leader in the building, always willing to help and lead by example. Uh the middle school Amazing Shape
056competition wrapped up on May 2nd with their final round. Congratulations to the 2025 Amazing Shape Champion and a Stern. The middle school and high school combined for their spring choir concert on May 6th. Great show for all age groups. Thank you to Mr. Rosen for such a great concert. On May 8th, the middle school hosted families for the spring middle school band concert. The event was well attended and the students did a great job. Thank you, Mr. Lions and Mr. Steerman for the efforts preparing our middle school students for the event. On May 27th, the Evergreen National Junior Honor Society will hold its induction ceremony for its new members. Thank you to Mrs. Christensen and Mrs. Schmidt for organizing the event. And to finish out the year, the middle school will be having a number
057of activities going on and events. Uh, sixth grade camp is taking place. Uh, seventh grade will hit the Mudhens for a field trip. Eighth grade will be going to Putin Bay. And the fourth quarter all A's breakfast and roll awards are yet to come here at the end of the year. So very busy in the middle school to wrap up the year. Thank you, Mr. Rick. Hey, good evening. Um, life has gotten a little easier now that Sunday is over, but first congratulate class 25. As I said yesterday, they're going to be a mess. They are a great class overall. So, congratulations to them. I do want to I know we've recognized Mr. Wagner and Mr. Lions previously, but I just want to tell you guys working with them for past years has just been
058amazing to see their passion, professionalism. They're rare and one of a kind. So, uh, congratulations to them on retirement and they've served our district well. Friday, May 16th, we finished all AP testing except after I did this, we have two kids who now have to come back and make up as there is a system there. Uh I want to highlight Mrs. Albby who's come in early. Even when we've had delays, she's come in early so that way we could get kids tested. So couple more days we'll have AP testing done. Our big event was Friday, May 9th, our future Friday. Uh that was huge. We had over 58 guests in the building. Planning started back in December. We had uh people in the gym. Kids went around and met with different ones. I heard positive
059feedback from our presenters, guests, our kids. Um one nice things I heard was our they said how respectful, engaging our kids were. They were shaking hands. They were asking questions. Mr. Miller, hopefully you can attest to that that day. Um we had a bunch of different sessions they went to. We had businesses, partners come in. So it was it was a great event. Um, as you can see on the report, there are been a ton of events, choir concerts, band concerts, art shows, FFA convention, we have field trips. Um, our fun is wrapping, winding up, and now kids are just getting ready for exams next week. So, taking a deep breath and enjoying the last week and a half. Any questions? Thank you, Mr. Midland. So I wanted to give you an update. We each
060year we receive a special education profile. I think last time I presented I shared on a rating that we've received from the state. That's kind of a little snapshot of this overall rating or this profile, but it is based on the 2023 24 school year. So there are six essential questions that are part of this profile. The first one more so regarding preschool. So the question is are young children with disabilities entering kindergarten ready to learn? We did meet most of these targeted areas, one being the least restrictive environment. So, our preschool classrooms are an inclusive classroom. Um, it's called an integrated preschool classroom. So, a mix of students identified with needs and typical peers. So, we did meet that indicator. One indicator that we did not meet is in regard to social emotional development.
061And this is based on it's called a child outcome summary form. It's a process that we complete when kids enter the program. We fill out there's certain areas and criteria that we have to rate and the goal is that by the time they exit they have shown growth. Quite honestly we met with state support team at the beginning of the year trying to go through the data and see how we could improve this area. I'm not sure if I'm going to meet with them again because I don't know if this is they're just not meeting that growth rate or if it's based on maybe a reporting er error because it is reported in in EMS. So, that's something I'm going to continue to work with our team on to gather more information on that. Um,
062the second area is just the kids coming in from like help me grow services. We're we're met that target as well. So, just an area we're going to focus on with preschool. The second um essential question are children with disabilities achieving at a high at high levels. This is based on some of those state test scores. So in the area of reading, we did meet for grade four, but we do have some growth with um our ELA scores for students with disabilities in grades 8 and high school. So that's another area of focus that we will look into. As far as math proficiency rates, we met all of those areas in grade four, 8, and high school are the areas that would fund it. Um the third essential question is whether students um have access
063to general education environments. And this is something in the past that we have made some shifts on moving toward more pro-e giving kids access to the general education curriculum. We did meet those areas. The one area that we need that was slightly a little bit beyond the um targeted was children who have to um attend separate facilities. So maybe IC or those that was slightly above. So that's something we always continue but sometimes kids just need that support through this. So essential question four is whether kids are ready for work postsecary. So more high school related. We did meet our graduation rate. We met our dropout all those different areas. So we were on target with that. Um eventual question five is what meeting um timely evaluations any anything that needs like a corrective action.
064We did meet those. There were no concerns with that. And our last was question six whether we are providing equitable services and supports and that was something we met as well. So a few areas to continue exploring and you know corrective action or whatever we want to continue improvement. So um each year we use that and it's helpful information for our teams. Do you have any questions for me? Thanks. Thank you Mr. Samola. Yeah. As we wind down the school year, I want to thank the board, our administration, teachers, staff for all their efforts to make the school year a success. We're all here for the students, and it's great to see them grow during the school year. I appreciate everyone's hard work and the positive impact they have on our Vikings. So, just going
065to thank everybody that contributes to the education of our our kids here. Uh we currently have one open teaching position for next school year, which is a preschool position. Uh the position is posted publicly. We plan to fill it with the best candidate as soon as we can. And we're kind of on a time crunch now. Uh summer's always a busy time. We have a number of projects scheduled, including the big one being updating our camera and access system. So, this upgrade is needed and will improve security and manage access to our facilities. So, we talked about it before, Mr. Doel spoke about it, and so that getting that underway is going to be a big a big help and a big uh safety improvement for the campus. Any questions? I think so. All right.
066Are there any board members with questions or concerns? No. Okay. I've seen a motion to adjourn the May 19th, 2025 regular meeting of the Evergreen Local Board of Education. Roller. Yes. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. S. Yes. All right.