001April 21st meeting to order. Roll call. Mr. Carr here. Mr. Miller here. Mr. Smith here. Mr. Vul here. Mrs. Ste here. We'll stand to do the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with all. Mayor, there are any board members who desire to add, delete, or separate any items of the agenda as proposed? No. All right. This time, I just need a motion to approve the meeting agenda as presented for the regular board meeting on April 21st. Roll call. Yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Yes. Mr. Bullet, yes. Mrs. Keer, yes. Motion carries. I need a motion to approve the minutes of the special and regular board meetings held on March 24th, 2025. Move board. Roll call. Mr.
002Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Vullet. Yes. Mrs. Keeper. Yes. Motion carries. Are there any board members to correspondence? Mr. Carroll. Mr. Simone. Yeah. I received a letter addressed to me in the board thanking us for the community newsletter that we do. Mr. Barick said he enjoys it very much and appreciates us sending that out. That's very nice. Nice. Thank you. Would you continue recognizing our guests and visitors guest with us? Thank you for being here. If you please just introduce yourself Sherry Brown Amber Hansel Dr. Dolores Dylan Henrix Brady Rerber. Thank you everyone. thing that no one has uh registered to address the board. We will continue on with Mr. Carol's financial reports. All right. Thank you. Um stack of papers you have in front of you are our March financials.
003First page you see is our cash reconciliation. This is how we are are showing that we are reconciled with the banks. Next page is our financial summary. This is how all of our funds are appropriated. Have the cash summary report. This shows the fund balances including incumbrances for each fund. The dispersement summary, these are all the checks that we issued during the month of March. And the first graph you see is the general fund revenue and expenses uh compared to our forecast. Uh according to this graph, at the end of March, we are 75% of the way through our fiscal year. So we are wrapping that up. And then on the second graph, payroll and benefits are broken down. Uh we have spent 75% of our payroll budget and 75% of our benefits budget. Couple
004other items on on the financial agenda. We do have two donations and a couple of increases to funds. Uh typically for these increases, it's it's a reallocation or um for the IDAB. We did receive a reallocation for federal funds and then just a couple transfers to include in there and that would wrap up March. That's all I have. Any questions for Mr. Carol at this point? All right, we're going to jump right into the financial section of the agenda. We need a motion to approve the March 2025 financial report we just reviewed with Mr. Carol. We also need to accept the following donations. $100 anonymous donation to the students assistance fund and a $250 donation from from the Andersons to the FFA. We also need to approve the following appropriations, modifications, and amend resources accordingly.
005An increase to the data communications for $5,97342 increase to IDAB of $21,96412. Also a transfer of $5,9742 to reallocate some grant funds. Transfer of 750 to strategic plan. Another transfer 750 to to a strategic plan. Each one of those are different items because they're different buildings. Um and 750 to the last building there for strategic plan. Transfer of three I'm sorry I missed a whole set of zeros there. 3 million to capital permits transfer of 200 from student assistance to outdoor education and a transfer of 50,000 from general fund to food services. This time I just need a motion to approve the financial reports and other financial items support questions or discussion the transfer from food services. How are we doing on food services recently? So we are we are still trying to uh finish
006up variety from the beginning of the year. uh that did put us in a little bit of a hole. Um so we are trying to wrap that up. Um portion of this is just timing. We're waiting waiting for reimbursement from the state. Um and then we can uh see where we'll end up for the year here. Okay. Trending in the right direction perhaps. Okay. See. Okay. Thank you. Any further questions? All right. Roll call. Car. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes, Mr. Smith. Yes, Mr. Bullet. Yes, Mrs. Keeper. Yes. Motion carries. We'll move on to personnel. We'll need a motion to non-renewal all supplemental and pupable service contracts including coaches club moderators for the 2425 school year effective at the conclusion of the current school year. We also need to offer the following teacher a one-year limited
007teaching contract effective with the start of 2526 school year. Eric Cooper for the high school middle school band teacher. We also need to approve Mr. Jeff Utzi as a summer custodial worker as needed from May 1st, 2025 till September 30th, 2025. Compensation is set at $17 per hour at a maximum of 40 hours per week. The superintendent or the superintendent's designate will coordinate hours and make all work assignments. You also need to add the following individuals to the approved district substitute list pending completion of any and all lensure requirements in background checks. Ronald Woods custodian, Chase Cernin, custodian, Steve McDow, bus driver, and Ryan Lamb, van driver. At this time, I just need a motion to approve the above listed personnel position. So move support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Mr. Carter, yes. Mr. Miller,
008yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mr. Aculous. Yes. Mr. D. Yes. Motion carries. We'll move on to other business. This time we need a motion to approve a three-year negotiated agreement between the Evergreen Local Board of Education and the Ohio Association of Public School Employees as recommended by the board's negotiation team and ratified by the association. This agreement includes a 4% increase on the base salary in years 25-26, a 3 and a4% increase on the base salary in 2627, and a 3% increase on the ba base salary in 2728. Questions or discussion? Roll just a negotiation for Rajley. Uh it was nice to have a a good negotiating sess session with all of them. That's it. Thank you. Um roll call. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller? Yes. Mr. Smith? Yes. Mr. Bullet? Yes. Mrs. Keer? Yes. Motion
009carried. We need a motion to approve the granting of high school graduation diplomas to the members of the class of 2025 on May 18th, 2025 pending their successful completion of all graduation requirements as determined by the high school principal. So moved for questions or discussion roll call. Mr. Carr, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mr. Bula, yes. Mrs. Keeper, yes. Motion carries. We need to approve an overnight trip for evergreen FFA students. There's seven of them, to attend Ohio FFA camp. Students will depart on July 7th, 2025 and return on July 11th, 2025. They will be staying at the Ohio FFA camp in Carolton, Ohio. Teacher Alexis Howell will be the trip supervisor and a school van will transport students to the camp. Estimated cost is $1,960 and will be covered by the students
010or FFA alumni if needed. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Bullet. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. We need to approve another overnight trip for the evergreen track team to participate in the OSAA state track and field tournament in Columbus, Ohio should any team members qualify for the state tournament. Athletes will say at the jury and in suites in Grove City, Ohio on June 5th and 6th. Coach Alex Luther will be the trip supervisor. Move support. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries. We another overnight trip for the Evergreen boys basketball team to attend team camp at the University of Finley. Students will depart on June 26, 2025 and return on June 27th, 2025 and stay at the Holiday and
011Express and Suites in Finley, Ohio. Coach Kyle Boset Bosetter will be the trip supervisor and the school bands will transport students to the camp. Cost of the trip will be covered by the students and the program. So moved forward. Questions or discussion? Roll call. Mr. Carter. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries to approve an overnight trip for Evergreen FFA students to attend the National FFA Convention. Students will depart on October 28th, 2025 and return on November 1st, 2025. They will stay at the Home Tooth Suites in Fisers, Indiana. Teacher Alexis Howell will be the trip supervisor and school vans and parent drivers will transport students to the convention. Estimated trip cost is $8,000. That's 400 per student and will be covered by the students. [Music] Question or discussion? Roll call.
012Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mr. Bula, yes. Mr. Keeper, yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve the Evergreen Local Board of Education to enter a day treatment purchase service agreement with AMG Educational Services LLC, a special needs education company for the sole purpose of providing educational services in accordance with placement at the LEAP program. Students placements will be at a perdeium rate of $165 per student. Last year was 160. So moved. Question or discussion? How often do we use this? Uh we had three students attend there this year. Thank you. How many days about three students? It's at 165. That's a daily rate. 165 a day per student. Gotcha. And they entered at different times. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Roll call. Mr. Car? Yes. Mr. Miller? Yes. Mr. Smith?
013Yes. Mr. Bullet? Yes. Mrs. Keeper? Yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve an agreement with Julian Groove for Medicaid school program reporting at a cost of $1,900 for the 2526 school year and $1,900 for the 2627 school year. So move support. Question or discussion? Roll call. Mr. Carr, yes. Mr. Miller, yes. Mr. Smith, yes. Mr. Bula, yes. Mrs. Kefir, yes. Motion carries. We need a motion to approve an agreement the building and group of a cash basis financial statement preparation for the auditor of state annual financial report at a cost of $3,400 for fiscal year 25, $3,400 for fiscal year 26, and $3,400 for fiscal year 27. Move forward. Questions or discussion? Something we've done in the past. Yeah. Every year we we do this. This is required by the auditor of state.
014Thank you. Roll call. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Vullet. Yes. Mr. Keith. Yes. Motion carried. We a motion to approve a revised auxiliary service agreement with the educational service centers of Lake Erie West for 2024 2025 school year in the amount of $88,558 auxilary services personnel the benefit of county schools and to amend resources and modify appropriations accordingly we support questions and discussion roll call yes Mr. Miller yes Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Bullet, yes. Keeper, yes. Motion carries. Need a motion to authorize a treasurer, Brian Carroll, to advertise for bids and set the day and time for bid opening regarding the resurfacing of district parking lot. So moved. Questions and discussion. Roll call. Is it a big chunk we're doing? Yeah, we're we're looking at doing the elementary lot and
015then uh the bus lot back there. And they're going to patch the strip in the middle school where it's broken up between the first two lanes of parking spaces. All right. How old is that? Are those strips that need to be fixed? Old enough. Look like some of the newer stuff is breaking up. It is the newer stuff. It's like four years old. Do we have any recourse to the person that put it down? Probably not. I pro I don't know, but probably not. Look at that to figure out who's going to take care of it properly. Roll call. Mr. Carr. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Mr. Bula? Yes. Mr. Peter? Yes. Motion carries. Mr. Small, would you like to take over discussion and information? Yeah. Um, Print Williams has shared a plan
016with us to improve campus aesthetics. He identified numerous areas for cleaning, organization, and organizing to improve appearances. Uh this includes the maintenance building, the athletic storage garage out by the back pond. Uh doing some landscaping, and then parking lots, as I had just mentioned, planning to resurface the elementary school front lot, the bus lot, and patch the strip in the middle school. Also looking to add a concrete pad near the bus garage for maintenance storage to the building to go in in the future. Along with the internal cleaning and waxing, the elementary office floor tile and the entryway tile that have cracked is all getting removed and replaced with a epoxy coated concrete because it was cracking. We can't get the tile. It's been an ongoing issue. So he has a plan to have that
017totally redone here this summer. Nice. Those are our main summer projects along with the stripping, waxing the floors and cleaning of rooms that happen every year. Any questions? Awesome. Thank you, Mr. Small. Mrs. Brown. Good evening, everyone. I first want to start off with a huge shout out to Mrs. Ford and Mrs. wise for all their efforts um putting together the Viking Voyage tutoring this school year. They did an amazing job um collaborating with all the teachers um and allowing our children to receive tutoring services. We did have 40 tutors come over from grades 8 through 12 um allowing 50 of our students to be serviced with their help in grades 1 through six. Um our last day was April 10th. Um and it it turned out great. So um they did a lot of
018tweaks from previous years. Um, so it was nice to see the change and see it restructured and um, it just ran very smoothly. Very smooth. Um, another huge shout out to Sharon Leitzky putting together and creating a plan for state testing for our third and fourth graders. It's a lot of work. She had 28 of our students in small group settings um, along with nine one-on ones. That's a lot to organize and make sure they have all their accommodations. Um so she did that very well with the help of all of our teachers. So um things ran very smooth for our first two days of testing at the elementary. Um our teachers are now currently working on class lists for next year. It's a really in-depth process. U so I've been meeting um with each
019grade level to talk about um special education students and how those are going to fit in with our gened students, making sure they have appropriate placements. So we're getting that all taken care of. Um, our kindergarten team also just finished up with kindergarten screening where we currently have 86 incoming kindergarten students and we have 16 kindergart students for a total of 102 incoming kindergarten students. So, we're looking at around 22 students per classroom, which is a nice size to have. Um, pending how many we get in the summer, we can get usually anywhere up to 10 in the summer. So, we'll kind of keep a close eye on that to see what happens. Um, several though we have a lot of open enrolled students. So, I know we had talked about as a district we're
020going to be talking about um those in open enrollments and what we need to do as far as um how many we're going to accept, how many if we can accept them all because we do have several. Mr. Pichek, I started working on plans for our field day. We and Miss Ziggler have been working together. Um, it's been a really nice transition because Miss Igler uh really did a lot of the leg work last year so Mr. Pulich could watch and he's now kind of taking the reigns on which is really nice to see. He's very organized. Um he's been going to all of our uh parent meetings and um our events. He kind of sees how things operate and he I think I know he's going to make it a really great event this
021year for our kids. He always has lots of great um equipment out, activities, and he makes it fun and changes it up all the time. Mr. Torrance is also planning our Viking our Viking choir spring program that's set for May 7th at 6:30 p.m. So, we're looking to looking forward to that. And we are going to wind down lifewise on Friday, May 9th. That will be our last day. Um I did share with you that we had 64 students total that attended this year with approximately 13 per grade level. Our um playground project is underway. Um I know there were a few questions so I did share some things with you. We currently have approximately seven companies and MVP helping to put that together. Just starting out with the funding process. So that's what we
022have so far. Um the surface area is the major concern. Um because we can't have some of our students down in that mulch area. They can't even access the equipment. Um it does pose a safety hazard not only for the kids, but I don't know if you've ever tried to go in there and try to run. Uh it's pretty tricky. Um especially on the ankles. So um that that's the main concern. Um I did look into a little more information as far as the equipment. It will be 30 years old as of April next year. Uh it was put in in 1996 to my understanding. Someone at the elementary had the original um sheet that shared all the information, the total cost of the project and everything. They still had it after 30 years, which
023was pretty amazing to see. Um so we did get several quotes. We started off they someone quoted us $380,000 to put in a playground which I felt was outrageous. Went back to the table. Um $250,000 is what they came down to. And then we decided we needed to move into a whole new direction where we're looking at for everything complete. $147,000 which is still a lot of money but we're getting more equipment. We're getting the surfacing um and it's going to be accessible to our students. there's any questions about any and all of that information. The old playground equipment, what will what's the plan there? That is something I'll have to talk with Mr. Carol about regarding what um we have to do as a district, whether it's something that someone has to purchase, whether
024it's something we donate. I'm not sure, but that would be a discussion we'd have to have with him. Okay. And is all of this funded, the 147? Currently, it is not all funded. We just started. Okay. Um so we're working on we know it's going to take time. Um but I have been in um contact MPP and I have been in contact with some other PTO's PTAs that have done this type of thing. They their projects are massive compared to ours. One of the places it was $650,000 in Sylvania where they're putting together a new playground. Um so ours is nothing near that. Um but they have the space and theirs is more of a community area. So, does MVP plan to like come to the board and ask for approval for the playground or
025is it kind of balls rolling? We can do whatever we need to. I did sit down with Mr. Smalla and Dr. Schwinford and did talk with them about it. Um, I was given the pay at that time. Um, but I'm glad to submit something if that's what you need in writing. Um, do you want it in writing or do you want like just like we do in the board and accept the donation or do you want would you prefer a presentation? we get things formalized. Um, we definitely would need to accept any donations that come in for it, but it would be nice to have the final Yeah. plan when the details are put together. I do know that MVP in the past, and I don't know that it was called MVP in the past,
026but it was the parent club. The parent club is the one that sponsored it and actually did it. Okay. Um, for that playground 30 years ago, that's why they still had that receipt. So, a parent that was on that committee had the receipt um and shared that with me. So, it's something that um MVP was working with us as a parent club to to make that happen. Sher, will the company come in and do it or are we going to be responsible for I mean putting it up or the company comes in and they take care of all of it? They rip everything out and then put everything. Okay. Yes. Because I know that was one of the concerns is do we need people to put it together? Um the first company, yes, the one
027that wanted to charge us the 380 and then the 250 and I was thinking, wait a second, this is a whole lot of money. um for us to be putting it together. I want to make sure it's done right and well. Um so with this company, this new incoming company, they actually recommend that they put it together um because of the way it's put together. So um I think it's best that they do it and then that way our warranty is intact. It does come with a 20 to 25 year warranty, which is what most playgrounds come with. So that was their recommendation is that they put it together, but if you would like um something in writing from me, I'm happy to do that. It's completely up to you. Okay. I like I said,
028I think once we get some um donations and we have a the big picture. Yes. Have something at the board. Um what is the subsurface they're thinking about if they're going to get rid of the mulch? It's going to be a turf surface, so it's flat with the concrete. Um, it's something where the students can roll out on wheelchairs, walkers, anything like that where they're not sinking down into the mulch. Um, so that is all it'll all be let level surfacing on that first section. The back section would be an additional cost. So, we we decided that we're going to hold off on that part for right now. Um, and still we're going to keep the swing set areas because they are in very good condition still. So, those are just going to get a
029coat of paint. Um, but the play the actual swing sets will stay. It's everything else that would be new, including the surfacing. Okay. Awesome. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Mr. Burke Holder. Good evening. Um, everyone wants to recognize our people champ. We actually have two this month. Every once in a while I get enough nominations from the staff, right? I'm not going to pick one. The Jenny Burkeolder and Heather Blanchard who were the people's champs. Um both of them kind of get recognized because of their ability um in our ability not just to help the kids but also help others around them co-workers. So they both have a heart for helping helping everybody out. Um we just have completed the last two rounds of our amazing competition. Uh first round I kind of gave you
030a preview. Last time I was here, we had 50 guests come in from around the community, helped run the event for us. It went really smooth. Um, the kids were even more prepared this year than the previous year with us having done two years of it now. Uh, the kids did really great and we even had really competitive scores at the top where it was tough. A lot of really high quality efforts were did not get into the top 10. But I would like to recognize our top 10 which were Henry Damaski, Braxton Hudick, Sophia Keller, Tyler Mans, uh Corin Novi, Aric Schultz, Brendan Schwin, Anna Stern, Josiah Torrance, and Noel Wolf. And then we have since also completed the second round, which we went to Warthingington Steel. They hosted us again. That's a great
031experience there for the kids because they go and they present a charity to the board. Um the kids have to you know present in front of a group which itself seems like a big part of the challenge but the whole day that the kids are there they get evaluated. So everything from the boiler room which is the waiting room to the lunch that we have with them to the tour they take us down through the facility. Um the kids are getting judged on the questions they ask the etiquette that they use. Um and then they gave us our top three which to recognize those top three uh Noel Stern sorry Noel Wolf, Anna Stern and Brennan Schwin are the top three that move on. So, they all have a chance yet. Uh, on May 20
032or be May 2nd, which is the day after state testing, we're going to have a special assembly. Um, you're all invited to attend if you'd like. It's going to be new for us this year, but hopefully very entertaining. We are doing we're calling the late afternoon show. You can think of it as like the Jimmy Balon show where these will be our three celebrities and we'll have a panel of judges judging that their ability to hold their composure, do their best. Um, it's semi uh comedic compared to the other uh competition parts, but hopefully it'll be a very entertaining afternoon for the kids to watch and for those three kids to put on their best performances. What day was that, Mr. Burkeweller? Uh, May 2nd. It'll be at 2:00. I do want to give a
033special thank you to Kelsey Kaiser and Jessica Double. They were uh the two that organized the Worththington Steel event for us. Like I said, it's it's top-notch. They do it for us and a couple other schools. So, they're very good at organizing it, but they're willing to give a lot of their time for us to be there. Uh we recently on April 9th did have a uh mental health screening for our eighth graders that'll be going into high school. Uh this is with uh Dr. Wood from the University of Toledo, the same one that's worked with the high school. Uh that went very well. Um we were able to accomplish that in a short amount of time and very streamlined process that he runs. We had a uh state test state testing pep assembly uh
034back on April 15th which is last Tuesday. Uh we had student council run this event which is also very cool because we literally let the kids run the event. Uh Lucia Abeck is our president uh 8th grade. She did a fabulous job actually leading the event. Uh we had stuff from uh musical chair basketball uh which had teachers participate and if anything their their effort throughout that game shows that they were ready for state testing. Uh they did a really good job. Uh we pied some kids in the face including uh Noel Wolf by her own mom which was a hit with the kids. So that event was a lot of fun. Uh the kids also got to learn about state testing tips, important things that they should be thinking about for the next day.
035So, it was informational and also a good way to get some stress out right before starting the state test. We then went into state testing last week on Wednesday and Thursday. Um, this was year two for Miss Scouron, our counselor running it. Top-notch, very smooth this this time around. Not that it went poorly last year, but she definitely knew exactly how she wanted to run things. Um, for the middle school building, the best two attendance days of the year so far. We had a total of three kids missing in two days. Um, which is fabulous. So, uh we will continue say testing this week on Wednesday and Thursday for science and then the last week will be uh in two weeks where we take math on that Wednesday and Thursday. So, uh one additional thing
036I did not get on the report but I want to recognize uh the track team's been having quite a bit of success this year. Uh the boys actually won the Patrick Henry invitational over the weekend which is their second invitational they've won. And we also had Emory Schmidland break two school records this weekend for the 800 and the 1600. Uh, she ran the mile in five minutes and 36 seconds each. Thank you, Mr. Buller. Mr. Roofer, I don't know if mine's as impressive as a 5 minute 36 second mind. Um, if you look at my board report, I mainly this month want to recognize kids. We have a ton of kids doing a lot of great things. Uh, Connor Samford is going to Bowling Green for a full ride. This was a pretty extensive extensive
037process. He interviewed there's 500 applicants so he gets a full ride for that. Um I am going out on Thursday night for four counties national honor society induction. Kennedy Gerbaric and Gabby Wahburn will be inducted into that one. Um and then also congratulations to Kira Keller. The Fulton County Schools participated a design for Fton County Health Center 5K. Her shirt design was chosen. So, nice work for her and thank you to Miss Bree for giving them that opportunity. Our quiz team is headed out to nationals Friday they leave. I think this is the eighth or ninth year in a row that they qualified. Uh they were also runner up at the league tournament out of 12 teams. So, good season for them. Uh we also have four county student John Hawkins was selected as the
038student of the month. Uh his resume and what he's doing out there and in the workforce is amazing. He's got a bright future. Um, and lastly, I want to recognize the drama club. The She Loves Me musical was great. That was April 5th, 6th, and 7th. So, good job to those students and Mr. Rosen and Mrs. Yoder for their work on coordinating that. I know it was a lot of work. At the bottom of the report, you'll see some important dates. Art show is this Friday. We have prom May 3rd, and of course, graduation ceremony is Sunday, May 18th to round off to the top events. So, any questions? Thank you, Mr. Mr. Henrik. All righty. So, right now, uh, we're fully underway with our spring sports seasons with track baseball and softball in full
039swing with about a month left, which is crazy to think about the weather that we've had. And hopefully from here on out, we don't have to worry about too much of that, but probably just jinxed us. Um, just a big shout out to Scott Keller and Chris Owens, our head baseball coach. If you guys drive back the service drive, you'll notice that that field back there got a new facelift. Um they took out the fence, took out the scoreboard and added a bunch of material so it wasn't just formerly known as the JB softball field, but you know removing that fence gives you know a lot of other teams an opportunity to practice to the full potential. So just a big thank you to those guys. Um right now working on a strategic plan kind
040of in lie of what the district's doing as well. Um just finishing up gathering information from head coaches um and working with administration um just in order to set a vision for the future and continue the success of the athletic department. Um, also right now finalizing the renewal process for all of our current sponsors for our facilities kind of on the scoreboards and the gym out on all the fields. I'm hoping to have all that wrapped up end of May kind of who's going to renew kind of what we're looking at. Um, and then going to put that out there over the summer. Um, with hoping to have all those filled by August one, get ready for fall sports season. And then lastly, um, obviously you guys probably fully aware we're looking for a Headmark
041Steals basketball coach. um looking to conduct interviews early next week, maybe middle of next week. Um and we will have somebody um along with all the other varsity head coaches ready for the May board meeting for you guys. That is all I have. Any questions? I don't think so. Thank you, Mr. Henrik. Mr. Okam, a few items. I'd like to begin by thanking uh the Oaks negotiating team and their members for approving a new three-year agreement with the district. We appreciate their commitment, their cooperation to reach a new contract. as Mr. Smith said went pretty well that day. Um, we are exploring new LED school zone signs out front for County Road 6. Uh, Deputy Mike has reached out to the township as far as where they would need to go some of that. He's
042also reached out to some other schools. I know Wasan put in new signs last year, so see what they use. So, we're doing the leg work on that, but we think we need some flashing lights out there to identify when the kids are kids and buses are coming on and off campus. So, that hoping to have that all in place so we can have them for the start of the next school year. Are you just looking at six or are you thinking Sylvania here? Uh, the township put new signs up that don't have lights on them, but I don't know if we need the lights there. I'd like to at least get them here. don't have a cost yet. So, we're waiting to hear back on what does a a lighted pole cost and how
043how close to the road does it need to be. So, we want to start out here and then if we think they're having a positive impact, which we think it's needed, we can look at the other side. If they just put new signs up last week on County Road S. And as part of our strategic planning process, elementary and middle school parents have been invited to meet with me next Wednesday, April 30th at 6:00 in the film room to discuss current career pathways and exploring the best way as their kids are growing and are going to enter high school. What would they like to see offered to them? What programs do they see? So I I want the parent feedback as part of our strategic planning process so we can look at again where we
044need to go. Any question? here. I'll invite you to attend six o'clock during the film next Wednesday. You'd like to join. Any questions, Mr. Small? All right. Are there any board members with questions or concerns? Rusty, do you have the one you told me about your sign? Okay. All right. Can I speak to that position? Um, we looked at signs that what's out there is either no fishing or fish at your own risk. And I don't know if we have a preference. It has not been an issue. I know worried about the liability of someone getting hurt. Are we going to I mean, do we want to say they can't do it or we say, "Hey, do it at your own risk." Then we're kind of pointing out whether hey, there's a liability or danger
045here. I don't know if the board has a preference or we just put a signal in. We discussed it with the attorney or the insurance company. Um, what's that? No. Yeah, I think we should do that. Okay. Quite honestly, if we can let kids fish there and it has to be a liability for us, I think we should let the kids fish there. If it's a liability for us, it's a whole different ballgame. But the sign, the signs are easy to get. They're inexpensive. That that's not an issue. It's figuring out. I don't think it'd be any different than the people on the tag. Yeah. You know what I mean? It's my defer to the insurance company their judgment of whether it's the same or not. I will follow up. Any further questions or concerns?
046All right. This time I need a motion for the members of the evergreen local board of education superintendent treasurer invite a guest to go into executive session for the following reasons to consider employment of public employees. Roll call. Yes. Mr. Miller. Yes. Mr. Smith. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion carries and there will be no action in for the executive session. We