001Roll call, please. Mr. Here, Mrs. Mad >> here. >> Mr. Brownie, >> Miss Landon >> here, >> Mrs. Web >> here. >> Thank you. Can we stand for the pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Thank you. Uh we have an agenda tonight as presented. Do I have a motion to accept >> please? >> Yes. >> Mrs. West. >> Yes. >> The agenda has been approved. Uh I need approval for the minutes of the Thursday meeting September 4th. Do I have a motion? >> So move. >> Second. Second call >> yes >> next we have the board report would you like to start high school
002host a community day for students uh to learn about different businesses in our community and career opportunities postgraduation students also have the opportunity visit local colleges and universities to ask questions and have the opportunity to receive information. Uh, this event highlights strong community partnerships and provides opportunities for our students to learn from local leaders and to interact with businesses and organizations which can help them plan for the future. Also, fast night will be held on October the 13th um from 5:30 to 7:30 um p.m. in the Pear High School Performing Arts Center. Uh, students who will meet need information about the federal student aid program to attend colleges and universities are encouraged to attend. Um we'd also like to thank the Fairmore High School um Air Force Junior ROC um Fairmore High School student ambassadors,
003the Fairorn High School Leo Club for your volunteer and support at the Air Force and the Right Air Force uh base honor flight. Um I'd also like to mention that um I get to participate in the mom sale at the primary school. I think about 700 moms this year. So that that sale went extremely well. So thanks to all the volunteers that came out, uh teachers, staff, and um you know, other community members that helped distribute and semi truck. Um and also this Saturday is a band competition at Spring High School. Um the band will be performing at 800 p.m. at High School. So, if anybody wants to come out and cheer on the band, um, we'll be here. >> All right. So, uh, congratulations to the Fairborn girls doubles tennis team on advancing to
004the OSAA districts. Shout out to Ari Mullen and Addison Secker. We wish them the best of luck. The girls tennis team is also the MBL division champions, so congratulations to them. Uh Carson Majors of FHS golf team won second place for the tournament. So congratulations to Carson. The Fairorn Intermediate School celebrated their 4.5 stars on the state report card with a special bunch of staff members. So we uh wish them congratulations and thank you very much for their hard work on all of their testing efforts. The intermediate school also recently started a culture club to help students explore different countries, cultures, and foods. They've also hosted their first STEM club meeting focused on kinetic energy and the building blocks and nutrition. >> I just want to give a little um plug for this weekend is
005the uh football for food drive at Kroger um that benefits our fair fish pantry. So, if you're out and about doing your grocery shopping and feel so inclined to donate to them, that would be wonderful. There's a lot of need in our community um particularly with all of the political events that are happening right now. Um and to know tomorrow, Saturday morning at Abiding Christ Church from 10 to 1, is there health there? So, um any community members that are in need of health services would like to encourage you to come to that. Fair Middle School hosted a state of win assembly for eighth graders who had the opportunity to hear from right state university men's basketball team about successes they have had on and off. Players focused on the importance of academics, making good
006choices, discipline, and goal setting. Students also had the opportunity to questions and hear about experiences in high school. Thank you to the middle school leadership staff will reach future club leaders are incredible students who work to welcome incoming sixth grade students. These student leaders provide a role model and mentor throughout the school year for sixth grade students as well. October 20th through 24th, we're going to have a book fair at the middle school. Very exciting. We're going to have on Monday the 20th, we're going to have after school hours, so parents and grandparents can come. Um, should be very exciting. We are also going to do a book tasting I think the 28th at the middle school, which will be a lot of fun. Um, we are really busy at the middle school and many
007things going on. We have a lot of help with staff as well. to thank the football team and coach Cox and the girls soccer team and coach and boys soccer team for coming to the senior center serving with us free lunch that we serve there every every fourth Wednesday very well we appate Thank you. I'd like to have a shout out to the Fairborn Primary School. They continue to do great work and highlight celebrating classes with perfect attendance and they share this great news on Sky Way Facebook page to encourage all the youngest ones to be in school on time and ready to learn. Many classes also have Apple Taste parties and then the students write and paint about their favorite apples. see that class also I >> yeah actually I wanted to also mention
008that next week um high school the marching band will be participating in the goodwill drive victory um so bring your donations I think there's going to be a semi truck parked at the high school if I remember correctly from the 6th to the 10th I think >> one last thing I've had the privilege to attend some of our football games and one thing I've noticed very very much is our students are very very well behaved number one. Number two, there are a lot of them that attend and when we go, I think we sometimes embarrass the teams that we visit because we've got a crowd and they're cherry and participating. It's really fun to watch and I think our team our team very well this year was in the concession stand there um Monday night
009at soccer game. We had 15 lot of kids, >> a whole lot of kids from Fair >> Union Soccer Association and it was really cool and they were so excited when they went out on the field led by Coach Marty to run around and get get picture. It was really really cool. Marty said, "Are you are you excited to be here for soccer?" the little ones, >> I get to stay up late. >> Good reason. >> But it it was very cool and I commend them for for doing that. The kids had a really good time. >> And now Oh, no. Mr. Burr, are you safe for the whole meeting? Are you just a visitor? >> Now I'm done. >> Coach Cox back here. You missed our comments about the great football team. Thank you
010to you and that your players are doing a great job. They're good to see. Good to watch. >> Kids are doing a great job. I scored a touchdown. >> That's it for up to district presentations. start. >> Thank you. We would like to invite our child nutrition supervisor, Emmy Brown, who is going to update you on our summer lunch program. >> Hello everyone. So, I'm going to do two updates this evening. One about our summer food service program this past summer and then one about our CDL's international school lunch and school breakfast programs as well. [Music] Reposition Jerry. All right. So, we served at 10 locations this summer. Nine of those being in Fairborn, one being in Zenia at Z Station Park on Detroit. Um, we served through June from June 9th through August 1st.
011We served 11,96 meals this summer. So, that's an average of about 302 meals per day. It's a little lower than we did last year, but with the extreme heat and all of the rain we got this summer, that number absolutely blows my mind. So, I'm so grateful for all of our employees that participated in that program. We had four bus drivers, give or take, two full-time, and a few subs. Um, those buses carried our teams, two of our teams to their sites. We absolutely could not do it without transportation. So, big thank you to them. And then we had a bunch of subs 10 full-time employees and a bunch of stuff from our nutrition services department as well and they no matter what just made it work. Um so grateful to them. It was a
012very successful summer. We have a picture of some little happy kids that's actually at one of the churches in Fairborn on Old Springs Road. >> Um but really great turn off this year. huge huge thank you to transportation to all the nutrition that help um quick update on C. So last year as most of you know was the first year that we were C districtwide. C is the community eligibility provision which allows us to serve a free breakfast and a free lunch to every student in the district. Um in addition to that this year we have added preschool to that program which is amazing. So now we are serving every child pre-K through 12 um a free meal while they're at school. 56% of our student population is identified as qualifying for free or reduced
013meals based on the direct certification that we get from the state of Ohio. That number is pretty significant. Um we are about at 72% participation which 72% of the kids in the district are participating in the national school lunch program every day which is amazing but we want that number as high as we can possibly get it of course um and with all of our students that are in need. We want to make sure that we're reaching every student that we possibly can. Um properly nourished students have better vision have better behaviors in the classroom. They perform better academically. they're able to perform better in space and after school activities if they're able to eat at school. So, we really want to encourage every student to participate in the program as we can. So, some
014things we've been working on are increasing our positive interactions with students and staff outside of the kitchen. Um, rotating menu items and eliminating and adding items that are the kids favorites, eliminating items that are not their favorite, adding new ones that we think they'll like, and increasing the quality of the food we serve. So the last slide here is just some pictures um that I put together just to show how hard our teams are working. So we've been focusing on serving a lot more fresh fruits and vegetables and even putting them in different trays. So you can see the fruits and veggies in the white tray versus in the black. The black trays really help the colors pop. Makes the food look really delicious. We eat with our eyes before we eat with our bellies.
015So just making sure all of our food looks fantastic. Um, we have a display there of the guys at the middle school. So, all of the salads and additional sandwiches that are offered every day. We have combination ovens in each of our buildings. So, those allow us to kind of like air fry. So, we've been playing around with that a lot, which is the picture of the French fries there. Um, playing around a lot with seasonings and then just being really interactive. So, the top left picture there is the last day of school. The staff at the middle school did like a send off to summer and it was uh glow like glow stick themed. So they had disco balls and glow sticks and it was really they turned all the lights off so everything
016was dark and all the disco ball was shining all over the place. It was really fun. They played music. The kids loved it. Um we participated in the July 4th parade for the first time in a very long time this year. We had a one of our summer lunch teams did that. So that was amazing. And then we actually had two teams of um staff that were open during open house at the beginning of the year so that parents and kids could come through. They had some free snacks for the kids which is are all items that we serve during the school year. So again, just to increase engagement, increase those positive interactions with our kiddos. So high five and to all the nutrition staff have been working really hard and our participation is up
017significantly and I hope it continues to go up. >> Great job. Does anyone have any questions? >> Thank you, Annie, for what you do and what your department does for our students every day. >> Oh, yes. >> Next, we would like to invite Dr. Brackenhof, who is going to um circle back to some OST and EOC perfect score recognitions and also walk you through the district scoreard. Before we start our recognition, I want to make sure I have one name highlighted. Are there any other students besides Maverick? Okay, good. So, last month we um began recognition of students that um scored a perfect score on the spring achievement test. And we wanted to give anyone who couldn't come last month a chance to come this month. But we will have one more opportunity and that
018will be in the Fourth of July parade. So we're going to invite these students to walk and they're going to have a sign or shirt or something significant that uh shows their academic success. So as I reported last month, we had 35 students districtwide that scored a perfect score. We give over 6,000 tests a year. And um tonight we are going to recognize Maverick Raber. He is was in third grade last year and scored a perfect score in math with a score perfect score of 818. So, if you could join me in congratulating Maverick, his nice certificate [Applause] is in the school office. We're going to come down and All right. Congratulations to Maverick and thank you Maverick's family for tonight. >> I'm going to move around to the other side. He was it. That's
019>> But our good report card is because of students like Maverick. >> That's >> Thank you all. >> Thank you for coming. >> So now I'm going to talk a little bit about our school district report card which came out last month and give you a little overview. Now you can see this is why I'm standing close. So one of the things that you will notice in this year's report card is as in has frequently happened over the years is the um the components or the ratings have changed. So from last year to this year um last year we had five different components and each of those components represents a different percentage of our final report card score. This year we have a total of six competitive. So for example um last year our achievement
020counted 28.6% this year counts 25%. So we have two measures that count 25% achievement and then progress and then the rest of the measures now count 12.5%. So again, a new component was added. So it did change the configuration of our report cards. So our reports are fourst star overall rating which is um what we did last year and maintaining that rating again since there was change in components as well as maintaining those high standards is not an easy task as um gayart said we have arrived four is is our new normal and we are going to continue with our goal on the prize of a score of five stars. So our four star rating um was calculated by achievement three stars progress four stars gap closing five stars our um graduation rate four stars
021early literacy too and college career workforce readiness um which is the new component four stars. So this is just an explanation possibly possibly not we'll move on of what each of the components achievement this is derived from all of those tests that we take over 6,000 tests and the performance level that each student gets progress takes those tests and looks at where students were and where they have grown. Our gap closing looks at many different measures which I'll show and looks at our subgroup performance with um goals set for each of those subgroups. Our graduation rate looks at both our four and fiveyear graduates and determines an overall grading. And then early literacy looks at three different measures and it is a measure of reading improvement from kindergarten through third grade. Okay. So, some celebrations
022again the overall strong rating of four which means we have exceeded the um state expectations. Our gap closing of five stars is showing significant evidence that we have exceeded those expectations. We moved graduation rate from three stars to four stars. So, from 91.1 graduates to 94.5. the new um CCWMR rating of four stars from the very first um and then our progress remained at four which is a significant rating and then achievement although it remained at three we are growing within that um component. So we moved our performance index up from 79.78 to 81.23. So making that progress, we also saw an increase in the number of students who performed at the advanced or the advanced plus level and this is directly um in relationship to the opportunities we are providing our students and then
023once they reach that performance level we continue to get bonus points for and um our district-wide performance index from for gifted was8 away from meeting it. It's an all ornone thing and so we are within grants of the highest performing districts in the state in regards to our gifted students. One of the other things we look at with our report card is how we compare to similar districts. So the state identifies 20 other districts with similar demographics to us. Um we've identified those border on this graph um and highlighted three that are geographically close to us. So out of the 21 total because we count as the 21st, we scored in second place. The top two districts had 23 combined points. The next two which we tied with second place had 22 points. So we
024were then one point of scoring the highest within our similar um districts. And then you'll see some of our again geographical neighbors how XM river and West Carolton how they performed compared to um some of the similar district comparisons. Out of our group, there were zero um districts that had a five-star rating and there were four districts that had a four-star rating. We were one of those four along with Austin Town, Stubenville, and Strutter City. Overall, again, we tied for second place with uh 22 total stars. In chronic absenteeism, our district moved up to fifth place um in our similar districts. In our progress measure, Fairborn outperformed the top two districts in progress, scoring four stars compared to the tide for first place districts that had two stars and one star in our GA gap
025closing. Again, Fairborn was one of four districts to score the perfect five stars. Um, in the CCWMR only Fairborn, Austin Stubenville and Strutter City scored that four star rating. Um, chronic I think I have a repeat there. So, as we as we look at five stars, now I'm going to look at early literacy. Early literacy is the area where we know we have an opportunity for the most growth. But it is made up of three components. One of those components is the proficiency level of our third graders. We have moved from um various scores below 700. Now proficiency is 700 for all of our students. So that's the goal that we have and then that counts for 40% of this measure. Then 25% of the measure looks at the growth of students from year to
026year. fall of kindergarten to fall of first grade, fall of first to second, second to third, and then finally the promotion rate. Remember with the changes in third grade reading guarantee, um it used to be that students were automatically retained. Parents can now um request that their students be moved on to fourth grade. So if we don't have a hundred in here, it's because parents have requested that their child remain in third grade for various reasons, but it's something that our building, which is the intermediate, works closely with our parents. So again, the the actual percentage looks a little different because it counts different this year. In graduation, both our four and our five-year rate were 94.5. So, that's really easy to uh to get a 94.5 as the total. Four-year graduation counts 60% and
027the five-year rate counts 40%. And again, you will you'll notice on the graph how we are making progress. uh starting in 2122 um our rate was 90.1 and um we are continuing to make growth across the years. Um the new CCWMR um looks at 11 different measures. So it looks at the senior class. This would be the class of 2024 that's being reported because graduation is always looking in the rear view mirror. It looks at 11 different components and each graduate represents one point. They have to get a point in one of these 11 ways. And some of them are purely academic ways such as a remediation free score on the ACT or the SAT or an honors diploma or having a three um plus score on an A on three different AP exams and
028then others deal with that career focus and military readiness. So some of it um is military enlistment. It could be completion of apprenticeship or pre-apprenticeship programs. So this is really an opportunity for us to not only focus on the academic growth of our students, but to determine how can we help these students by meeting one of these measures and be ready after graduation to um continue with their their um progress. Um the district gap closing component has um different elements within it and there are a lot of hidden things in here. So it looks at gifted identification performance and progress. It looks at our graduation rate. So we counted again here. It looks at chronic absenteeism and our English learner progress as well as our achievement in progress. And um and uh in ELA and
029math. So they're scored in other areas, but here we are looking at the subgroups. So are we go growing all of our children at the same rate? So there are um there were goals established based on the starting point in 201516 and we each year are working towards achieving those goals and we earn points within there. and then our gifted. Again, I wanted to highlight just the remarkable job that they're doing. We are very close to um to uh to meeting that uh new uh performance index. And just pointing out that we had uh 17.2% of our students, our gift students performing in that advanced plus level. So you will notice accomplish is at 19 2% and then we go to um see advanced and then advance plus um chronic absenteeism. Even though that is
030one component in that gap closing, it's one that we really pay attention to. We monitor it. We do everything we can to um encourage students to come to school every day. we can do our jobs as educators when we have students in the classroom ready to learn. So I wanted to show um how we are this one is one you want to reduce the score versus aiming for a bigger number you're looking for a smaller number and you will see that the district is that top line in blue and the state is the red line. We are close to the state but you'll also know we're closing the gap in our reduction in chronic absenteeism and getting closer and closer to that state average. So, four out of five buildings met um that measure and
031again districtwide it helped us earn all five points in within that gap closing by having students in attendance. I wanted to just very quickly highlight how important that attendance is and some of the extraordinary means that our buildings go through. So, every two weeks they have attendance data. They get it at their building leadership team meeting. They get it at our district leadership team meeting. And so we look at every building, what their goal is and where they are currently. And we compare it to how they were doing last year. So we know, are we keeping pace? Are we going to meet our goal? So by the end of the year, we have a pretty good sense if we're going to meet our chronic absenteeism rate. And again, the goals are very clearly um outlined
032for each year. And each year we meet a goal and then your next year you have to meet a lower goal because the goal is to reduce that chronic absenteeism. All right. And then to get all of this work done, what we have done is continue to work in the OIP process. We shift from working as individual teachers in classrooms to working together as a group as a purposeful intentional u process and we also really focus on um leadership function. So leadership it is in the classroom when teachers are leading students but leadership is required outside of the classroom for individual buildings and for the district to grow. So by promoting that leadership and working through our Ohio improvement process, um we continue to grow. We dig deeper into the data every single month and
033um focus on what our plan for instruction is so that we can continue to maintain that four-star rating. But hopefully we will meet that fivestar rating in the very near future. Any questions? Dr. If I could just add, several years ago, we had a conversation and we were much lower on that list. Look at the 20 similar districts and there was a pretty extensive conversation about how do we what are the districts at the top doing and how do we get ourselves further up to the top. We look now we're basically number two and we're right on the heels of stupid bill who was you know the center of that conversation. What is stupid bill doing? Can we do any of those things? I do want to say um commend really Dr. Bracken for taking
034suggestions and task and reaching out to Stevenville, leaning some information. I think that has been beneficial to us, but also really digging into what is on the report card and where are we at and how do we move that needle. So, while it's the work of a lot of individuals, it's really under Dr. Brackenhoff's guidance that that we have been able to get to where we're at. So, thank you, Dr. Brackenhoff. And it is certainly a point of pride for our district where we are at right now. Okay, next we are going to have Mr. Pho. >> Good evening. Invite Mr. Bird, your assistant treasur, to come up with me. First, before we toss money, give the treasures office great pleasure to present to the board of education three awards. The first is a certificate
035of achievement for excellence in financial reporting from the government financial officers association. This is the seventh year in a row. This is a national organization that's for reporting. The second one is from the association of school business officials certificate financial reporting. This is also the seventh year in a row that we received this. And the third is from the uh state auditors in the state of Ohio. It's a uh Ohio order of state award with distinction presented to Fairborn City School District in terms of it's presented because the financial reporting and because of result in essence we have a receive this award several years. At this time I'd invite the board to come up Mrs. Ghart to receive these awards. What? >> Did you get a hold? If you will run the uh Can you
036sit twice? You'll notice first that the format is significantly different than the past. The state of Ohio changed their five-year forecast to a three-year forecast. Uh the five-year forecast before was the current year that we're in plus four more years. Uh the new format is a three-year forecast is one with the year that we're currently in and then three on top of it. I think my math counts as a four-year forecast, but they call it a three. So um so we want to present in terms of uh the actual and I know that's hard to read. Um roughly the same format we've done before. I still go out five years. Um the first two years are more accurate. Anything after that is pure speculation. A couple of the highlights on this is you'll notice that
037our ending cash balance dropped in 24 down from 34 million down to 2025 down to 24.2 million. That reflects the $8 million transfer over the middle school project. and also the money that we >> and also the money that we lowered our ending cash balances to try to accommodate what they might do in Columbus. So um with that it changes the the outlook a little bit but in terms of overall the first line the light blue line is sort of the worst case scenario um with a levy in there projected for November 2027 a for levy um that projects it's us going down roughly several million dollars a year that is also a worst case scenario um more what I consider are more accurate. It's probably that darker blue line. That's my best guess at
038this time. So, it still shows us in a strong stable financial position for the next five years. But there are a lot more asterisks behind that now than there was a couple years ago in terms of what can happen in Columbus, what can happen in Washington. And we'll talk a little bit in work session about some of those possibilities. So, um later tonight asked to approve that. There are placeholders in there for future raises, overall symptoms of negotiations. There's subject to state budget, etc. So, this shows really without any major changes. The last line um the line in pink is the line that if a levy was not passed in November 2027, I'm projecting a small four mill levy um that's where any cash would be. So, in terms of silk, those are strong and
039stable. Um, if you remember years ago, I showed a levy in 2024 and not you did not have to ask for that. Any questions? Roughly, this shows our revenues and projections pretty similar from year to year. We're total projected revenues this year of 54.4 million. It's a good balance in terms of the uh blue and the green is local. That's real estate taxes and income tax. The red and the orange and the yellow are more state of Ohio. So, it's kind of a 50/50 match right where we want to be. Not all of our eggs in one basket in terms of our total projected revenue. Next is our expenditures. Our expenditures 75 80% is blue. a salary and that benefits. We're a people, person, government. We deliver a service, a service. And so those percentages
040are roughly the same as they've been in the past. Our projected expenditures are roughly about 66 million. You'll see that we are projecting to spend more than we are bringing in. So in terms of what we have cash balances with our ending cash balances, this is the worst case scenario. You can see back to 2019. We covered in that $30 million range. We did the high in 24. We adjusted down here in 25. And this is the worst case scenario, but we're projecting then this year roughly around 223 million in that area. Normally each year I would present comparisons in terms of when we talk about value and Dr. Brackenhoff brings the results and then I show what we spend per student. What I will do is I will present that information next month. That
041way we won't bore you completely with all kind of stuff. We can spread it out over two months. So we'll show those comparisons to those same districts that we did across the state and in Green County next month and reinforce. >> Any questions? >> I'm sure we all have questions. >> Yep. >> There are many things that happen. So again, you said more than you would like to see. >> Correct. >> But we can't do anything today. >> Yep. And in work session as I will go over some of the things that are being proposed in Columbus and how it might directly affect everyone. >> Thanks. >> Thank you, Mr. Pho. And then our final presentation tonight, I will invite Jeff Madden who's going to give you an update about this conference and Is that
042wrong? >> There we go. >> Sorry. >> That's all right. Um, >> just trying to make sure you know >> I passed one test. Keep me on my toes. Couple of things. >> Blue. >> That is Is Pam still here? She'd be impressed. That is the >> Yeah, that is the exact format. Uh typing the right numbers for the colors. >> Um not sure if the board's aware or not. I I think most of the board is, but we are a federally impacted school district and have been for probably on forever. And there's been a lot of history in that. I won't go into all that history, but uh the next month or so, we're going to be passing out federal impact aid forms, asking families to complete those forms. They're important for us to
043get what uh our slice of the pie is when it comes to being fed impact. And I also want to share kind of what we do as a district to advocate for our district at NDC. So, next slide talks a little bit about, you know, what is a what is federal impact day? big picture is it it's a federal program that gives federal dollars to schools uh that are impacted for different reasons whether it be military installations Indian lands federal low income housing uh national parks and federal property uh school districts are that basically the government has said hey there is a cost to school districts if we're on your campus if you're up in your territory and this is a way to offset some of that impact and the law's been around since I
044think the 1920s 1930s it has evolved and changed and been modified but that's the overall concept is that hey being close to right path impacts fair and it impacts the other districts that have a lot of military families so that's impact data next slide is what is nus you have probably heard um people from the district for many many many years go to Washington DC and advocate for our federal dollars and and that advocacy really comes through a national organization called Napus which is the national association of federally impacted schools they've been around for 50 plus years thousand school districts a part of it and they come across from all over the country one of the benefits of is unrelated to perhaps money is the connection that Fairborn can have with an Indian land uh
045with with a territory and a different part of the country to learn about their practices, their culture, their values and things that they're doing. It's it's pretty eye opening uh for to be from Ohio to learn about that stuff. So uh you have a lot of just broad conversations about education across the country. So side note on that piece, but overall Nath their goal is to influence uh provide advocacy information about impact aid and the importance at the national level to keep it. Some school districts uh they wouldn't survive without it. So it's a big big issue for all of them. Uh we're a small piece in that pie. Um but it's important for us to be here. Next slide talks about local connection. So locally, um we have three school districts that are part
046of Napus. Uh they all receive impact aid dollars. Uh we work really collaboratively. We go to DC as a group. We meet with our representatives, at least their legislative aids, as a group and have conversations with them as a group. So, we show up in six to eight people showing up, sharing our story, sharing our connection with Right Pack, the impact that it has on our community, uh, and the support we provide our students with the dollars. Next slide. And just as a side note, Fairborn has a pretty good history of of some leadership roles within Napus, within some subgroups. So, within the organization, we have a decent amount of voice within Napus. um Capitol Hill visits, what what that looks like. We meet with our three representative, two senators in my term, representative turn.
047So that that's really kind of our our group that we meet with. Those are three separate meetings. We schedule those with their legislative aids. We're in their offices. Um it is rare to see a senator or a representative. Um but we do have pretty good connections with their legislative aids. Uh and those aids sometimes float across different people. So for example, the uh Mike Turner's repres uh his legislative aid went to uh Senator Houston's office. And so you he remembers us. He talked about things that he did with Representative Turner and the conversations that he's having with Senator Houston. So those things I think matter. Uh I will share last I I had not come here but last year in December I got an email from one of the legislative aids just giving an update
048to the group about impact aid and conversations that you had with Representative Turner and things that were pending. So it was a nice way to say hey we went there in the fall and you kept our contact information and you actually follow through with updating us in December. It was pretty impressive I think. Um but we also shared more than just the story of impact aid and write that we share the story of what is going on in public schools. Uh the importance of our school lunch program, the importance of mental health in schools, the changes that take place. They hear the stories that they learn more than just federal impact day. And I think it's a we talk about title funding. We have a little bit of insight about hey this is where the
049house is with this bill. This is where the senate is with this bill. we highlight, hey, we kind of like that version, we don't like that part of that version. It's just an opportunity to share information, gain some insight and keep that connection for public schools uh through a impact through an organization of NAFUS really allows us that avenue to get to that bigger level and have some dialogue with it. With that, that's that's all I have about NAS about impact day. Are there any questions? >> I just want to say like I know I personally about this having worked at some of these districts you know grown up that was one of the most concise presentations on what this all is I've ever heard. So very welcome. Thank you >> Mrs. Gart. Did you
050hear that? >> It's on report. No. >> Okay, that is it for district presentation. >> Thank you. >> Uh next we have budget and finance. Uh before we uh approve this, we have a motion second to approve the three attach attachments monthly financial report. Send it a second. Second question, please. >> Yes. >> Landon. >> Yes. >> We have the administrative distance part of this. I'm turn. >> Okay, >> sounds good. All right, so um we just want to congratulate a couple of our upcoming retirees and request a resolution of tribute. Uh, first for Sheree Evans, um, grade one FPS and this just staggers me every time I read it. 43 years of education all in fairness school. That is unreal. So that she's dedicated her whole life to us. Um and then uh as
051Stephie said, Tony Walker, science um again another another huge year crossing a resolution of tribute for 32 years in education. All of them and that just their dedication to the district is unmatched. So thank you very much to those two ladies. >> Um just want to add about Sonia Walker. She's one of those that never says no. She'll stay after with the kids that can't go to go to fun on Friday. She's up and and the kids love her. But more importantly, her contributions over all these years have been amazing. And I I wish her well in retirement and she's gonna be grandma. So she's retiring at the right time. So we'll miss you, son. >> Motion to approve. So move >> second please. >> Yes. >> Landon. >> Yes. >> Y >> would you
052do the next gift and donations? >> Sure. Board of Education would like to briefly acknowledge the following gift and donations. Um, family for boys clothing and a quote for primary students. Uh, Fairborn Education Association, $100 for student athletes. Fairborn news watch 917 backpacks with supplies for Fairborn Primary students. Fair Creek Church school supplies for Fairborn Primary School. Russell and Amanda Pinch and Curry and company 14 backpacks with supplies for one primary students and the five lounge for 40 backpacks with supplies for our primary students. Thank you for all your generous giftations to our students and our >> will now enter into a work session. After that, we'll have