001Mr. President, I have 5:30. Okay. M, would you please uh call the role? Mr. Steininger here. Mrs. Milad here. Mr. Browning. Miss Landon here. Mrs. Web here. So, we all stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. The flag is there. We got a flag. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you everybody. Okay, the next thing we have to do here is approve the agenda as amended. Been moved by second. Second, please call the motion. Mrs. Malad, yes. Miss Landon, yes. Mrs. Web, yes. Mr. Steininger, yay. Next, we have to approve the minutes of the Thursday, February 1st regular meeting. Is there any motion? So moved. So moved. Is there a
002second? Second. I have a first and a second. Please call the motion, please. Mrs. Webb, yes. Miss Landon, yes. Mrs. Mad, yes. Mr. Steininger. Yay. Next we have reports for the good of the order. I'll start with Stephanie. You want to start first and we'll start work our way down. Sure. Sure. Sure. Um Bever Primary School hosted the Dayton Children's Festival for families and students. The event included summer camp information, arts, painting, food, and much more. a great opportunity for our families and schools to connect and have fun. Uh, spring sports have started, baseball, softball, track. So, if you can come out and and check out our teams. Um on March 13th, we had a uh community meeting with the uh members, mostly members from the Midman Park area uh to discuss the demo of
003Baker Middle School. They were very concerned about a couple things. The meetings were well attended. Um lots of great questions. Even Rodney couldn't answer one of them. So that was that was something. He usually knows all the answers. Um I got a lot of good feedback from the folks the next few days after that. So I want to thank Amy and the the staff that help and uh really appreciate taking the time to to do that. So thank you all. I appreciate it. Okay. Good. Katie, you go next. All right. So, April is the month of the military child, which is very important to us here in Fairborn. And uh FCS will be sharing dates and times for building and athletic events, which will honor our military families. We're so grateful for their service and
004look forward to honoring our students and families during the month of April. Information will be shared on the FCS website and district social media. And the official groundbreaking for the new Fairborn Middle School will be on Tuesday, April 29th at 4:30 p.m. at the land next to the high school. Uh rain is scheduled for May 1st at 4:30 p.m. Uh we welcome the Fairborn community to attend this special event and we thank you very much for your support of Fairborn City Schools. And lastly, um we're heading into one of the most uh exciting times for uh the end of school with all of the final concerts and um activities for the kids. So, just want to encourage everybody to go out, take a look at the calendar, choose something to attend, especially um everything we
005have going on here in the performing arts center. It's a lovely venue to come here, a concert if you've got a free Saturday night or Sunday or Wednesday afternoon. So, um, please join us for those events because they're always really, really nice to hear. So, thank you, Katie, Wendy, and we'd like to thank, well, thank you to Fairborn ASL teacher Michelle Lee and her students who visited Fairborn Primary School to teach our youngest Skyhawks about sign language. Um, this is an incredible service to our schools and a great way to build capacity for the future. So, thank you, Michelle. Um, and we also like to give a shout out to all of our Fairborn High School staff members who attended the Fairborn High School class of 2025 senior trip to New York. This is a
006great opportunity for our seniors to bond and have a great time and have fun together in the Big Apple. So, thank you to everyone that participated and we hope the kids had a great time. Um, also another note, senior banners are up in the Fairborn community. I'm sure everybody's probably seen them around town. Um, thank you to TCA Graphics for printing the banners and thank you to the city of Fairborn for partnering with Fairborn City Schools to install those banners. I would also like to note um, you know, this week we're celebrating um, or this month we have a lot of things that we're celebrating and pair of professionals appreciation day um, was yesterday. Uh, we have school librarian appreciation day which is tomorrow and um, also I think assistant principal appreciation week is coming
007up the 7th through the 11th. public school volunteer week is the 21st to the 20 um 5th. Um administration professional day. Um there's so many things that are coming up um you know for this month and like Katie said if you guys could check out the calendars to see what's going on. Um but mostly to give our staff um you know a shout out to all the great things that they do for our students. Thank you. I'd like to congratulations to the FHS AF JR O JOTC uh cadet uh Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Wle on receiving the 200 20025 deadlines flying training program scholarship from uh flight 9 uh the order the order of the data lines through the foundation successful applicants will receive the ground and flight training necessary to achieve a solo flight in
008a general aviation fixedwing aircraft so I want to congratulate him and his family and students at the Fairborn Intermediate School explored how the heart works by using a magic school brush approach and they by scooting, pulling, stepping, jumping, and crawling through their way through the chambers and valves of the heart uh in a kind of a heart obstacle course uh in the gym and it's a great way to learn about our health and our physical activity. So, I want to thank them for that opportunity. Does anybody have any else any other good of the order? Okay, we'll move on. Uh, recognition of visitors and public comments. Mr. President, I have a Joseph Lars who you'd like to speak tonight. Um, I believe he wants to talk about the intermediate end of year program. Good. Yes.
009Basically, Intermediate has an event to celebrate the school year. It's called I think it's called a run and it consists of the teachers are throwing chalk powder at the kids. No eye protection, no mask. If it they ask right into their system, it could cause problems, especially if they have a head as if it gets into their eyes, it could cause problem with their eyes. And I think the event should be stopped and changed to something else that's not detrimental to their health. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you. Any other further comments from Mr. Treasur? Do we have any other comments? That is all. Okay, then we'll move on uh to school district presentations. Thank you. At this time, we would invite Andrea Evans Edmonds to the um to come up and talk. She
010is one of our right Patterson Air Force Base schools on officers and she is going to share some information about April being month of the military child. Absolutely. Can you all hear me? All right. Okay. Using my teacher voice. I was a teacher for 22 years. So this does not I don't think I need a microphone. So I am Andrea Edmmonds and I am one of the two school leaison at Bright Patterson Air Force Base and I have the honor of of representing and supporting our military connected students um that go here to Fairborn and all of the 35 surrounding school districts. Um I'd like to begin by expressing my gratitude to the board to Dr. Ghart and to Fairborn City Schools for giving me the chance to come here and speak as we gather
011this month. I would like to take a moment to recognize as you said that April is the month of the military child. And during this month we celebrate the resilience, the strength and the perseverance of military children and the unique challenges that they face due to their parents' service. These children often navigate frequent moves, deployments, and constant changes that comes come with military life. Yet they do so with remarkable courage and resiliency. Fairborn City Schools, as many of you know, is, as I said before, one of the 35 school districts that immediately surround Wright Patterson Air Force Base. According to data from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Fairborn has the third largest population of military connected students in Ohio with approximately 12% of the students having ties to the military. This includes children
012of active duty families, service members, guard and reserve, civilian employees, and contractors who work at the base. I'm also proud to share that Fairborn City Schools is a Purple Star School District. For those unfamiliar with the Purple Star Award, it recognizes schools that demonstrate a strong commitment to supporting military connected students and their families. Fairborn City Schools exemplifies this commitment every day through their dedication to providing a supportive environment for those students and ensuring that they have the resources they need to thrive. The school leazison program of which I am a part of is focused on outreach, advocacy, and partnership initiatives designed to address the unique challenges facing our military connected students, especially when it comes to educational transitions. Through collaboration and real-time solutions, we can better support our military families. I am confident that
013Fairborn City Schools will continue to be a valued community partner, serving as a strong and supportive resource for military families now and in the future. Thank you again for letting me speak here today. Thank you to the board. Thank you, Dr. Ghart. Um, and for your ongoing commitment to our military connected students and families. Thank you. We certainly value our partnership with Right Patterson Air Force Base. So, thank you again for being here. If I can add two quick things not on the agenda, I do want to um point out that momentarily you will vote on some personnel issues and that we do have PJ Barnamis with us who you will be voting on um to approve as high school principal as well as Brian Snder who you will be voting to approve for the
014director of student services position. We welcome them and thank you for being here tonight along with your family. Okay. And then just to follow up, I think uh Miss Landon mentioned the New York trip. I did have the honor of chaperoning again this year and I can assure you that our kids were um very good representatives of Fairborn High School and that it was a great trip and I'm sure they came back with some really really fun memories. And that's all I've got. Thank you. And thank you for joining them. Absolutely. My privilege taking for the team. Okay. Uh, next on our agenda is the treasuring report. Before we go there, do we shall we have a motion to accept the uh approve the uh receipts? So move. First, a second. Second. Second. Okay. Before
015we call the motion, Mr. Pho, would you like to uh state anything about the treasury report? Usual monthly financial report that you'll find everything is pretty much in line. Uh, property taxes and income taxes are right on target. I think property taxes were accelerated a little bit this month, but the final settlement comes out this month. Very good. Thank you. Thank you. With that, I'll call the motion. Welcome. Mrs. Webb, yes. Mrs. Mad, yes. Miss Landon, yes. Mr. Steininger, yay. Okay. Uh the next is this administrative reports. Is there anything you want to add Amy or Kevin before we put the motions together for this section? Just to make sure that the addendum uh is included in this that is uh uh H uh 123 on the addendum will be included in this motion and
016vote. Thank you. Uh there's also a recognition here. There's several of them that we need to make call outs here. I do. Go. You want to do it? No, I'm I just want to do You want to do? I'm going to do you do. I got to do. Okay. That's a big one. That's a big one. Yeah. Kyle Hutchinson for 44 years has worked for Fairland City Schools. He's probably, in my opinion, the best custodian Baker Middle School could have ever had. He kept that school together with duct tape and spit and whatever else he could find to hold it all together. Um, asked Kyle for anything and if he could figure out how to do it, he did it. Am I wrong, Lori? No. No. Um, just a good good man, a great custodian.
017I never asked him while I was actually still working for the schools. Never asked him for anything that I didn't get the next day. Um, I just can't say enough about how amazing he is and how hard going to be to replace him. So, uh, shout out to Kyle. We're going to miss you. um 44 years you know all the secrets. Well, yeah, there is that probably more than enough. But so big thank you to Kyle. We're going to miss you. And also uh requesting resolution of tribute for 33 years of education, 32 of which were spent here at Fairborn City Schools for Amy Whiteill who has been our orchestra director for a long long time. um she will that's another huge huge hole that will be definitely be missed. So um for both of
018those individuals we are grateful for their service to our our parents and families and children. Very good. So do I have a uh motion so move administrative section? Second. A second. We have a second. Kevin, would you like to call the role? Mrs. Web? Yes. Miss Landon? Yes. Mrs. alive. Yes, Mr. Steininger. Yay. Do you want donations? There's a lot of Do you want to split them up? Sure, I'll do them. Okay, go for it. All right. The Fairborn City Schools Board of Education would like to gratefully acknowledge the following gifts and donations. Thomas and Judy Ball for $300 for the Hawk Pantry. Ed and Sandy Gibbons, $100 for the Fairborn High School Trip Fund. $100 for the Rex Aurman Relays, $100 for the Ron McDermott scholarship fund, and then $100 for the committee for
019Afterpro. Um, let's see here. Sorry. Emanuel Ministries, $967.83 for the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. Um, Fairborn Intermediate School attendance awards. BD Mongolian Grill donated 20 $10 gift certificates. K Hope Cope and Love donated 25 gift certificates. City Barbecue 100 gift certificates for free kids meals. The Fairborn YMCA one-mon youth membership. Jubies of Fairborn 20s for free ice cream scoops. My favorite muffin 25 coupons for free bagels and cream cheese. Young Youngsary one family fun pass. Hall of Honor Ann Armstrong and Goldby is $100 for Skyhawk donor. William Arnold $100 for Skyhawk donor. Well, there is a lot on this. Do you want to split it? We'll take some time. United States Air Force retired Major General Scott Bergen, $100 Skyhawk donor. Warren Brown, $500 gold donor. Robert Carico, $100 Skyhawk donor. Jane Clifton, $100
020Skyhawk donor. Joan Dodell, $100 Skyhawk donor. Joyce Dennis, $100 Skyhawk donor. Robert Dapiro, $100 Skyhawk donor. Greg Foreman. Craig Foreman, $50 white donor. Chris and Pam Gayart, $250 silver donor. Jack and Judy Gayart, $250 silver donor. Ed and Sandy Gibbons, $100 Skyhawk donor. Major General Francis Gideon, $100 Skyhawk donor. Susie Grimes, $100 Skyhawk donor. Michael Hazley, $25 blue donor. Lieutenant Colonel James Herd, $100 for Skyhawk donor. Sharon Hanukkah Rab $50 white donor David Coker $100 Skyhawk donor Tom Cougler $250 silver donor Laurel Mayor $25 blue donor the Ron McDermott family $100 Skyhawk donor Kelly Nef Fuller $100 Skyhawk donor Alan and David Neebs $100 Skyhawk donor Norma Nicola $25 blue donor Bob Parsons, $25 blue donor. Joseph R. Richie, $100 Skyhawk donor. Michael and Kathleen Seer, $100 Skyhawk donor. Mary Spar, $50 white donor. William
021Spitler, $100 Skyhawk donor. Jane Chrom, $100 Skyhawk donor. Stephanie Webb, $100 Skyhawk donor. Steven Wolver, $100 Skyhawk donor. and Doyle Wright. $50 white donor as always. Thank you so much to all of those people who did um who generate or you know donate so generously to our district and our children, our families. Thank you. That was very huge. Lot very good donations here. So that concludes our more formal part of meeting. We'll now go into a work session here probably after a short recess. This is the time that guests uh want to leave. you're welcome to leave. If you want to stay, you're welcome to stay. After we have a work session, then we'll go into executive session. That's where um we discuss business not in the public view. And then after that, we anticipate
022only adjournment. So this time we'll just take a short threem minute break and we'll get into work session.