001[Music] thank you all for being here at the village please join us thank you before we take the roll since we came first on the money agenda I would like to welcome everyone here tonight some of you were here earlier at our five o'clock meeting where we asked the community to come in and speak with us and share thoughts and ideas with respect to school funding I thought I was very encouraged by that Meena I know we we all were very pleased with the turnout we would like to continue to engage in that process and what we can pledge to you is that we are open to ideas and that we are committed to moving forward and finding ways to maintain the excellence in our schools and fund them in a rational manner which is
002as folks have pointed out not always easy given our state funding structure but we're going to keep our commitment to doing that the other thing I want to note tonight we have a relatively new member of the board Fred wolf who was appointed just in time for all this excitement and as some of you know there was a legal challenge that was filed locally in the courts challenging the process by which the board engaged in selecting and appointing mr. wolf to fill out the unexpired term on the board were gratified that the Court recently ruled in favor of the Board of Education and verified or validated that we had indeed follow the appropriate correct and transparent process required under the law and and so mr. Wolfe is now fully committed there's no background but I
003I wanted to make sure to note that and and and we're grateful that he stepped up in a really significant way volunteered countless number of hours already even under that cloud and so I would like to once again welcome mister wolf as a corollary to that we also want to thank the Ohio School Boards associations legal assistance fund because they contributed five thousand dollars to help offset some of the legal costs that we incurred in defending that lawsuit and and that's not an insignificant amount of money certainly we are mindful of how we spend each and every dollar in this community and in the school district and so we're extremely gratified by the actions of the Ohio School Board Association and a Legal Defense Fund to help offset some of the costs that we incurred
004in defending that lawsuit thank you to those folks with that mr. Sobel if you take the roll please here here commendations [Music] so for you people that are new to board meetings we typically get up and commend some of our students or teachers or faculty for tremendous work so tonight is a great representation of the arts so I am honored to honor our band orchestra and choir tonight so every year performances by our band choirs and orchestras seem to get better our student musicians showcase their skill in several ome a contests and once again came home with top ratings qualifying for state contests this year in earning superior ratings this year where all four choirs men's women's and freshman choruses and symphonic choir and both symphonic and concert bands and orchestra what a fine achievement
005by our musicians and their directors we invite our officers from the band choirs and orchestras and their directors here to present represent literally hundreds involved in these incredible programs but before you get up one of the things that I truly believe is a source of pride for this this community and the school district is our you know the balance between academics athletics and the arts and in many communities that's not a level playing field or a balanced playing field in this community it is and our students hop from one field to the stage to you know another environment and really showcase what what tremendous talent that they have and so I guess that's my way of saying they're very multi-talented and we appreciate the fact that they dedicate the amount of time energy and effort
006to perform and learn their crap that they do so let's have our representatives from symphonic band president Hayden Fry concert band president Tanner Maul symphonia and Chamber Orchestra's Emily Cromwell mary-kate Hill Rafi de Janeiro Bjorn Ludwig and Mathias young prelude Orchestra Sabrina Craig and Annabel Foster symphonic choir men's quiet men and women's chorus officers Nathan DeMint Rick Duffus get rid of that gabriella SH night Kate plugger Joey Pamir and Kieran sotloff and then freshmen women's choir president can Iraq well have I forgotten anyone all right let's have you guys come up right now [Music] okay yeah I don't know how we're going to get this picture done but [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] the next groups I'd like to highlight I'm gonna not bring up the theater department yeah and with them the Science Olympiad team
007at GM s placed third in central Ohio regional tournament and moved on to compete at this Ohio Science Olympiad state tournament last month where they place 19th out of 40 teams an improvement over 13 places from last year the team also had four top-10 finishes in Anatomy fast facts mystery architecture and towers and representing the team tonight are Isabella and Julian Rogers Joey Joey Makka Moo Makka lit McAleer thank you and Olivia Liberty and congratulations to everyone and their advisor Josh Kershaw come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] just another final remark about that team I think it's great that our social studies teacher Josh Burrell is actually the Science Olympiad advisor brought it here I really cultivated the program from the ground up so thank you very much Josh okay finally the GHS theater program has
008had a busy and successful year three well attended productions include John Lennon and me check please and Annie students attend the Ohio thespian conference in won first place in the techy challenge those involved in the Ohio show kick show where Lisa ball Kelsey Mattel Kayla Braden and Claire Duncan representing all the students who contributed to this year's success on stage and at the conference were David Braden and Kayla Braden Rose Duffus Claire Duncan Sydney flora and amatuer Jernigan coming up with your directors Sarah sharp Stephanie Stanton and [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I have to tell you Rick is graduating but every time I have a meeting or a presentation he sets up south for me and many of these students have done that and they stay late they come back so I
009appreciate and Sarah thank you for choosing selections that didn't give me even more that concludes our accommodations for tonight and I know many people have a lot of places to go so feel free to leave at this time however you may want to stick around because we have cake guy me who's going to share her global scholars project with the board and it won't take more than what how many minutes four or five minutes so you might want to stick around just for that because it's fantastic I've heard it already so that concludes our accommodations all right okay Thank You Kate poni measures [Music] my name is Peggy I am a senior at and I am also a global scholar two years ago one of my closest friends began struggling with numerous mental health issues
010they stopped all of their extracurricular activities and the students stopped coming to school together depression and anxiety completely destroyed my best friend's life not only how these issues affected my own community but people struggle with mental health disorders around the world for example suicide is the leading cause of death in Japan from the ages of 10 to 19 four years ago I enrolled in the global Scholars Program at the high school as it was just starting that wasn't completely sure what all it would entail but I was excited to be given an opportunity to think globally as a high schooler the first two years required a great deal of work but I was able to learn a lot about other cultures my junior year however the program took all of its level three students and
011told them to create and implement some sort of service project there were a few guidelines except to work on something that you're truly passionate about and I had to address an issue that has a global impact when starting to research and brainstorm I global scholars project I knew immediately that I wanted to address mental health in some form after many failed attempts to settle on one specific topic I eventually chose to focus on suicide prevention this was in part inspired by my interest in advocating for the lgbtq+ community in a national study 40% of transgender adults admitted to have attempted to suicide in their lifetime 92% of these under the age of 25 well this is a massive issue for the lgbtq+ community other students are in no way immune as our own high school's
012own anonymous survey approved just last year I'm sure I don't need to remind you of the statistics but it is impossible to stand idly by when nearly one and every five students last year's graduating class had seriously considered suicide within the over the past two years I have researched and developed a suicide prevention policy based on a model that was created by five national organizations all dedicated to improving the mental health of teenagers this policy is focused on helping students mental health at all school levels and it includes three sections dedicated to suicide prevention the first component is appointing a prevention coordinator at the district level and each school level who would be responsible for all suicide prevention and policy related subjects at that level the second component is annual staff training on various prevention
013related subjects such as risk factors warning signs and response procedures so there is strength in doing that I have to tell you your leadership on that subcommittee was phenomenal and most adults would struggle to do what you did and you did it in a way that really brought light to that issue and it was a very balanced approach so thank you appreciate it Kate the board would echo those comments we're all committed to the well-being effort with a with a very high level of focus and energy devoted to it and and what you've done is incredible and what you will do in your next few years is even more incredible we know that thank you for what you've got so now now if people want to leave if they want to leave now mr. solo
014is going to present the five-year forecast [Music] Thank You mr. Silva certainly clear a room [Laughter] [Music] as mike is getting set up I will tee him up according to law mike has to present a five-year forecast two times a year in October and May it shouldn't be lost on you that you know we have a five-year projection that we are required to do but it's based off of a two-year budget at the state level so you know it's a little bit more of looking at our assumptions and developing a long-range forecast for the community so Mike I think I've teach you up thank you you're right now so Alan as Jeff said we're required to do this two times a year in Maine October a couple of things to note about this one is
015that in the forecast we are not allowed to include any levies that have not been approved by the voters so you will see no mention of here of what we may or may not do in November that is not allowed to be included anyway so it is not there and the other thing that the board does doing may is it reveals the capital budget as well as the operating budget there is no formal requirement for that but the port does do that and so we will take a quick look little budget the board is not act on the capital budget other than in the appropriations for the upcoming year this is the forecast looking at it currently I'm looking at it back in October this does incorporate the income or the impact of the reduction
016in force that the board is planning in that and the insurance changes that were made as part of the negotiations are the big differences in where the forecast is right now and where it was back in October what you can see and you have to be little careful because of the federal law change with deductibility of property taxes we have taxpayers pay about $600,000 of property taxes early before January 1st of this year to take advantage of the deductibility which pulled the money forward a year which distorts the first two years of it so but if you take a look and you really need to look at the fiscal 19 to physical 19 the current fund balance is expected to be about $700,000 higher than it was in October we are still spending more than
017we are taking in but in reality these two numbers here not for the $600,000 it was pulled forward would have been sweat switched around and so in reality this year we're spending much more like it was back you have like $650,000 more than we're taking in with the reduction in of course and the other changes that are being proposed next year if it were not for that six hundred thousand dollars walk would have been about a flat spending with revenues you can see going forward we are still expected to spend expecting to spend more than we're taking any care the cash balance at the end of the five years is obviously significantly better than it was back in October again because of the cumulative effect of the reduction in force and the long-term impact of
018the interns changes monkey before you move on can you just highlight the revenue surplus or deficit versus the ending cash balance and a little bit about that cash balance and what that point in time is yeah you're going to talk about it better but but the different the red in the second line from the bottom that is our operating income essentially net operating income for the year if you'll get into business sense that is our spending again each year in excess of the amount of money that we're taking in and revenue for that year the bottom line in each case case is the cash that we have on hand on June 30th of each year so it's the cash that is on hand on that one day that we are measured by by the state
019the issue and this is the monthly cash flow and you can see the number here then the June number the four point three million dollars that was on the previous graph but that is not our low point of the year as far as cash because of the would because we are depending on property taxes for probably 75% of our revenue most of our revenue comes in in four months during the year comes in in July and August and then in February and March when we get to the end of January before we start getting our new property taxes our cash balances are about three million dollars lower than they are on June 30th and that's always a number that we need to keep in mind because if we get to a point like we saw
020in the previous graph where we have a million and a half dollars left on June 30th well think about it if there's a three million dollar swing between you thirtieth and then the following January 31st January 31st we are essentially at a negative cash situation and so you need to look at the cash more than at just one point in time the budget reductions that and changes that we are doing about three hundred thousand dollars of salary changes about fifty thousand dollars of health insurance changes we are proposing the moving the convenience fee from pay for it right the last few years the board has been absorbing that we are going to move the convenience fee back on to the parents and the users and so those in total you see about $400,000 of change
021over 442 it's something that goes over two years because of timing we are also looking at we will not be posing tonight we're like you'll be proposing at the June meeting a pay to participate we're still working on sizing that and how that will look we're anticipating they will raise about one hundred and seventy five thousand dollars a year above what we are currently getting from the middle this is the capital budget and it's kind of a simplified version just for next year and it's actually a capital budget had the levy passed and a capital budget as we are now proposing because the the levy proposal included an attempt to pick some of our capital needs we are expecting actually going to spend considerably less than we would have happily passed on our capital needs
022all of the lines that are highlighted in red are where we have made reductions beyond what we would have previously done big ones being you see we were planning on $150,000 of flooring replacements as those are starting to wear out we're now projecting not to spend anything on flooring changes this year you see we did the same with furniture we have a couple of vehicles that are in need of replacement we're one of them rather than two of them anytime for purposes that we're planning we are not going to do and then also about $100,000 reduction in some of our computer replacements not not the direct classroom like a Chromebook but in other parts of our technology and so those were all changes that we had to make relative to what we would have been
023spending because the levy did not pass [Music] taking a look at ending again just a comparison of the current year from where we were in October to right now the revenue side everything is very close to where it was in October with the exception of the real property taxes again reflecting the $600,000 that was received this year that we weren't expecting to receive until next year on the spending side there really is not much difference between where we were in October and where we are right now there's a couple lines where we're spending a little more than we anticipate there's a food a little bit less these are well within budgeting tolerances as far as [Music] enrollment enrollment is important in an r8 from the state and also for our staffing you can take a
024look we are right now at twenty four hundred and eighty students across the district last year we finished at twenty four hundred and fifty five so we are up twenty five kids from where we were last year the important thing to note is this when we have this chart in October this number instead of being plus twenty five was minus three we have gained twenty eight students across the district since the october forecast and so you see almost every year we are projecting increases in enrollment all in one year the only year we are not is out in the twenty twenty one school year and that's because we have going out from the year before probably the largest class that we have ever had two hundred thirty two kids and so we're actually expecting based
025on birth data one of our smaller kindergarten classes that we've had over the last five years with only one hundred and forty two and so we're gonna lose 90 kids just from that with our move-ins which are generally that positive don't quite as get us back to where we were the prior year but other than that we're projecting by the end of the five year period that we will have about sixty five more kids in the district right now take a look at the sources of our revenue take a look at it now ten we're projecting if you look at the real estate plus the property tax allocation which comes from the state but it's based on real estate so essentially 70% of the revenue that we get is from real property taxpayers we get
026a little bit of what to pump there is public utility property is a little bit and that is actually growing a little that's been growing at a pretty rapid rate we actually that's one area where we do get revenue when it grows because there's never adopted rates on that the rest of it state aid it's listed to different its unrestricted 23% of our total budget we're expecting you have to drop to 22% I'll show that here in just a minute as to why we are losing revenue if you take a look at the property tax last year in 2017 was reappraisal here in Lincoln County across the district our residential rate values went up by 14% our AG values would you complete work in with residential to determine tax rates actually went down a little
027bit because of some changes in state law but the agricultural part of that is only about percent so it doesn't have much impact on the overall but even with that 14% increase in residential values and that represents them through year growth that's because this property has recessed area three years we got about a one and a half percent growth in property tax revenue so essentially a half percent per year for three years obviously not keeping up with the rate of inflation and what is our largest revenue source at the state level a little bit about the state funding formula with the form with the way the formula works we can have one of three outcomes with the with the funding formula we can be formula funded we can be capped in our funding or we
028can be guaranteed in your fund in our funding and you will see over this six year period we managed to hit all of them at least once so we have been bouncing all over the place this year we actually started being formed as a formula funded district meaning what the formula said we should get is what we got however when we added 28 students from the beginning in the year to now it took us off the formula and we don't have capped and you see we're capped by about 23 students so what that means is the first five or six students that we added from where we started the year we got an additional revenue from the state the last 23 kids that we've added we have gotten no additional money from the state next
029year were anticipating actually being formula funded without much chance of reach either the cat or the guarantee began we're projecting we'd have to add 54 kids above what we're already forecasting yes for growth to get as far as the caption so said that the good news out of that means that for each additional student we get above above what we're projecting we're going to get an additional about $2,000 from the span for each kid now that also means if we end up with fewer kids and we're projecting we will get $2,000 less for each one we essentially each one we don't get that we forecasted that we will when we get out to the 2020 i'm yusuke our guarantee district that is primarily driven by the 14% increase in our residential values that occurred last
030year that is making us in the eyes of the state formula much wealthier relative to all the other districts in the state and so now what it says is if the formula to calculate what the formula says we should get it's actually less than we got in the year before and we're assuming the guarantee has generally been either guaranteed at least the amount you got the year before and so what we're saying is based on our current projections we would have to add an additional 35 students above where we're projecting to be just to get off the guarantee so if you think what that means is based on the funding level we're projecting for that year the first 35 students above our current projection that we have get no additional money from the state or
031essentially the stating said is telling us no Yuri funding for that and so once you get past thirty-five then we would start if we got three classes start getting additional money you can see the last two years on the guarantee much closer to the formula like what is the can you share the state based funding amount yeah versus what we receive the basin the base they emailed this year's these six thousand and ten dollars you see we have a stationary next this year of about thirty three percent so in essence of the six thousand dollars and that's a kind of a base cost when you're talking about the students who don't have any kind of special needs funding kids who don't have disabilities are gifted aren't economically disadvantaged the state is saying it should cost
032$6,000 to educate each one of those kids they give us $2,000 so that's you know the four thousand is assumed to come a little bit back past the other comment that I would make is from a risk standpoint every gubernatorial candidate that I've talked with has said that they don't like guarantees and that they're trying to eliminate the guarantee to get people more to the formula funded level so that is a risk for potential loss of revenue it is luckily we're not real far onto the guarantee so it is not a huge risk for us like it may be for some other districts on the expenditure side of the budget if you look upward salaries and benefits we spend eighty percent of our operating budget on salaries and benefits over the next few years the
033salaries have been supposed to actually expect it to go up a little bit those benefits down that's because of the health care changes that we made as part of the last negotiated agreement the other big area is purchase services that's fourteen percent of our budget expected to be fifty nine the fastest growing line item in our budget and most of that is spending that is beyond any control that we have it's most the biggest fortune event a state mandated spending that Facebook this thing tells us what we have to spend and we [Music] if you take a look at our expenditures going backwards over the last five year period we spent about 3000 spenders went up on happens about 3% a year you can see on floor we're projecting about 3.3 percent the two circle
034numbers in there for next year the slow growth in salaries is a direct relation to the reductions in staff that we are doing the benefit that the negative 6% of the combination of the reductions plus the change in the healthcare from the negotiated agreement we are expecting our healthcare premiums to go down in fiscal year 19 because of the changes that we made back last spring [Music] final thoughts our overall fiscal challenges have not changed they've just kind of been pushed out one year because of the reductions that we have made and the projection agenda participate participate there were anticipating doing and we still have the same problem we expressed throughout the campaign is there mic on your own I think maybe in your third slide here you're lying out of capital expenditure slides [Music]
035so I know we've talked about the fact that with the age of the buildings we're gonna start undertaking significantly greater repairs and and I know in the coming year we'll need to replace the fire suppression sprinkler system within the high school in the Middle School which is going to be north of 300 thousand maybe 350 thousand is that what's in the mechanical line-item up there line item for mechanicals yeah the only thing we are able to do this year and mechanicals is the chef we have a boiler issue if we have any other issue we've got we'll have to adjust this way you have to either adjust yeah we do we budgeted $50,000 of contingency that probably is not going to cover a boiler it will cover some of our yeah what that really is
036looking to cover is like last year one of our snow plows I think fired it and we have a reply because we had to replace that or things like that unfortunately that will not cover a boiler or a full air-conditioning unit if something like that were to happen we'd have to do some combination deferring out of other things or digging into you know we'll try and keep a cash reserve not a huge cash reserve reCAPTCHA serve in case we have some major project that we have to do something with mr. Chinese the one thing that I would highlight so we had three hundred and fifty thousand dollars allocated for replacement of mechanicals right our HVAC system are our chillers all those require annual upgrade and and so we have them on that 20-year plan or
037so we are deferring maintenance on three hundred and fifty thousand dollars of that those units that needed to be replaced according to that plan so those are getting pushed because of that critical life safety issue crying thank you for cleaning around and it might be and I hate to make you look forward again with your last or second to last slide right there [Music] previous all right so the fiscal year 18 total expenditures were at five point two two percent yes big line items there were salaries and benefits salaries under the new three-year contract that we negotiated right out of its benefits uh primarily because we had to advance fund I believe yeah you say account the advance funding the HSA the salaries part of that was up so much as we did have for
038this year we added a boil over language they had to global language positions and kindergarten position to meet enrollment so that's part of what's driving so there was an outside growth than one year that hasn't been typical over the last five correct okay and we expect that the benefits will be reduced I think you mentioned the benefits will be reduced significantly going forward based on the change in the insurance [Music] there's a hope with that some of the high increases that we have gotten in the past maybe will not be as high you know as everybody all of us trying to change our behavior and how we use health care to me okay thank you and you know that since it was a topic of conversation in the funding forum and I didn't elaborate at
039that time but for this audience we made a significant change in our benefit structure in cooperation with the Association because everybody recognizes that growing at 12% is not sustainable and so when we have a committee form at looking at insurance benefits that is a joint administration Association committee to look at how to best manage taxpayers dollars and still provide benefits that are similar to what you know people have had in the past but this has been a dramatic shift away from a public sector model which is a PPO model to a more private sector model of a high deductible HSA plan with the intent to cost share moving forward and that initial lowering of the premium would would allow us to actually provide a base salary increase through that last round of negotiations so that
040we don't we talked about that here I don't know that that message gets out very often to one give credit to the Association and the teachers for their willingness to adjust knowing that it's it's not a sustainable level and and that the board is acting in a prudent fashion with bayar dollars and I I wish I had more of a mechanism to communicate those messages that people would actually hear and understand but I think that is a significant change that was made in healthcare benefits I think it's you raised a good point which is that we have been the board and administration have been very very focused over the last seven or eight years at least to my recollection and perhaps longer on controlling costs that we could control and you raise a good point
041because there are several things we can't control we can't control the growth the astronomic growth and health insurance costs and we can't control the significant and material growth in purchase services as Mike indicated I think I looked at our five year history of audited financial reports and our purchase services have increased 58% over five years those are unfunded mandates that come to us that the services that we provide and we provide them willingly and we provide them expertly but we can't control that it's not it's not something we can elect and it's certainly not something for which we receive funding so the two greatest areas of exposure for us or risk to our budget aren't things that we have a hard time controlling and I think we've moved the needle significantly in controlling going forward
042our health insurance cost and you're exactly right it wouldn't happen without the collaboration goodwill of the staff and I commend everyone on the staff for recognizing that the association for negotiating that we have I think the greatest teachers around and we'd like to treat them as such we have a limited amount of funds and so we tried to do our best to be able to compensate fairly in a tight budget formula tight budget structure and that includes trying to put together a a benefits plan which is fair which is which is reliable for folks but also controls our costs going forward and and that's significant we've taken huge steps in order to control that cost going forward Michael talked to room if you talk a little bit about them their forecasts student-teacher ratio and how
043we adjust staff in the forecast to enrollment and so forth I know in the past we've been you know vigilant about making sure we you know reduce or change staff grade levels and so forth to meet changing enrollment with the proposed upcoming reduction in force I know where I'm at an uncomfortable level in my perspective on ratio and focuses in defining we were you adjusting to that we were moving around coming through me you know instead of replacing a couple times when we had teachers retire relieved we reassigned to let them go down collect those numbers go down to maintain the teeth of people teacher ratios over the last three four years that's rehearse this class yeah enrollment has gone up just over the last four years in the elementary school we have 18 percent
044more kids and we have four years ago in grades k-3 3 and we have adjusted our staff to meet that to keep our ratios in line in the intermediate school we leave actually going down a little bit and we did it just down position as one of our smaller classes was coming through we were to have been it more adjusting down and in the intermediate school when three options and force of the living past you probably would have hired a fifth grade teacher and a third grade teacher to meet the enrollment demands in those two grades we are using some of the changes that we're doing in response to the levy failure where we're proposing ending the space program at the elementary school moving that teacher back to the fifth grade so that because of
045impact of impacts a larger number of teachers and also we think at this point we're only gonna need three half a classroom for kindergarten that's Jerry yep we we may get run in the summer that we're not expecting with barring and I need to have a run over the summer and so we will take a kindergarten teacher which we have four full-time and split that position and have her help in third grade he - he's some of the class size issues that were affecting in third grade next year and you know the board hasn't voted on fees specifically in terms of pay to participate and others and so forth how our fees incorporated that we might vote on in the future in the forecast [Music] they've been about every charter essentially the fees are part
046of all of the revenue and so the painter participating fees would go into the all of the revenue they state about 3% of revenue because you know well you know we're looking at one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars in a thirty million dollar budget $175,000 is a is a small amount of money and so you're not seeing it in the percentages but you would see it in the growth of Rev with you yeah we're showing the apple of dollars in the growth graph which I know that that's already in here you would see it so you had talked about a back to health insurance for just a second 10 to 12 percent increase in premiums per year right not necessarily cost to the district and I'm wondering how does that compare to other districts and
047what do do we yet know have a sense of what our new health insurance plan but how that rate of increase will change we know for sure for next year as part of the negotiated agreement with Medical Mutual is that we have a 10% cap next year we know it can't go up more than 10 percent we won't we know how we compare Southern District yeah I work with a lot of districts and honestly we haven't seen things all over the place at this point there's a lot of places where they've been able to stand up over the last year - and a lot of we've seen a lot of districts getting double-digit increases this year it's really yeah so much of it has to do with the experience and the usage and that's a
048little hard to predict from district to district but we have seen in we are where it's being controlled in places we have city of districts and I've worked with a lot of them I've seen double digit or our expected double digit increases coming up either July 1st or next January 1st questions thank you Mike we're now at the point in our agenda where we'll open the microphone to public comments anyone who would like to make a public comment if you would please step up to the microphone let us know your name and address and feel free to make comments we typically request it folks limit their comments to three to five minutes but we would welcome anyone who would like to speak music boosters need my address is that right yep one eight zero for
049Carlile Court and that's I have two quick statements they're about thirty seconds each I'm going to read those with your permission first statement will explain the second statement so the first statement is just an update about the music boosters with the mission to foster music appreciation and create opportunities for our music students kindergarten through twelfth grade the Granville music boosters has been a federally registered 501 C 3 nonprofit organization for 23 years now thanks to generous support from our parent and community booster members supplemented by several annual fund raisers annual fundraisers we've provided uniforms and concert dress attire equipment and supplies auxiliary instructors scholarships and classroom support for Granville's music programs while our parents have provided tremendous support to music boosters over the years we also know many parents have children the whole purpose disciplines
050so building in our success and encouraged by Granville school district administration and superintendent Jeff Brown Granville music boosters is excited to team up with the theater and art departments to extend support to all minors in Granville schools by adding art and theater to our group we are confident parental involvement will continue to grow to better support all of our fine our students as Granville arts boosters so we have officially adopted the name brand alarms boosters if I have to pay a nickel for every time I say go music position concern so the Granville our boosters naturally is concerned about the teacher of the part-time GIS orchestra physician for two key reasons first reason this position most direct this is the position that is most directly linked to initially introducing and recruiting over students to the
051orchestra program basically business industry second reason is this position relieves orchestra music director Samantha Schnabel what would otherwise be overwhelming responsibility so given the importance of this part-time GIS employee position the arcs boosters has approved a motion to contribute up to four thousand dollars to the Granville schools for the upcoming school year if the contribution can help the Granville schools provide the financial footing to retain the position in addition our boosters welcome ornate found with the Granville Education Foundation as well as an identified local Bennett factor to fully fund this position for one year I know we all agree that our Orchestra program as well as other music and minor of programs does make Granville a truly premier school descriptor thank you thank you done that's that's an extraordinarily generous gesture by the Arts boosters
052and we're enormous ly honored and pleased that the Arts boosters have done that it's a just a tremendous tremendous effort to really backs up but what I know that group believes in and and has has put their time and their money into for a long period of time so thank you and please from there thanks very well any other public comment [Music] hi I'm Randall resident [Music] and I wanted to come to you as a library advocate and as a grand Imam to make sure you know what our children I think traditionally librarians are seen as he put her some books and we just kind of sit at her desk and stamp away but that we instruct students both independently and we serve our leadership communities we write in win grants that benefit the students
053we facilitate technology used by students and the staff we provide technology support and of course I think it's worth noting that I mentioned technology several times in there because again we're changing with the times technology is as an information science master's degree it's also interesting to note that the gender gap in the technology industry is actually widening in modern times instead of closing and that biggest gap so losing another technology advocate which is more about librarians there have been 34 studies over the past less than 20 pairs statewide studies done nationwide and they have all found positive correlations between successful schools and and that might sound well only how GP high districts that school experience happened regardless of supa demographics or the swings characteristics and in fact that actually has shows of every day blow
054as a Christian is the most which we find graphic to get more specific library and all aligned with the vision that Ohio sees for exit our education they have recently adapted the teacher training schools framework have a big part of the future reading school's framework is having teachers ready libertarian to help from the State Department of Education and the school's website as school speak out to become teacher already it is necessary to identify and cultivate leadership different than those leaders school librarians leave teach and support their schools in your district [Music] more specifically Grado has really pushed a project-based learning style we had [Music] hosted [Music] and California isolation said the greatest impact will be on students as their libraries disappear the disappearance of the community and the school library creates not just as a
055learning environment but as a place for students to come to meet meet up with each other to create together to find something good to read and have someone there to talk to them about it a place to be inspired and then motivated learning just doesn't happen in the classroom it needs to be encouraged supported directed inspired all those things happen in the strong school library and rather than talk about the things that that I've done I asked a few students my reason place to go when you feel stressed or upset this is mathlete with a smile on every walking no librarian the vibrate won't feel for another Susan said the library is a great place to hang out where lunch mrs. mathletes best librarian and Hepburn and her being laid off overall the library I
056think we need a library because they do so much more than check in and out books maybe feel welcome and being in the library is the best place which I'm not and I appreciate the work that the administration has done and thank you jobs [Music] I wanted to community though there's much more to the library [Music] thank you in the comments okay I actually wasn't going to speak today but what I'm hearing brings me up here one of the things that I realized as a conversation with you was that there was no non regressive option for the levy apparently and so I do worry about the aggressive taxes that are I also tend to think of education as a right so I appreciate the difficulty of making because today I do not claim to be
057an expert I don't know that but one of the things that was missing for me in the treasurer's report it was an articulation of the principles that motivate the cuts that are being made and undisturbed the cuts target librarians and music teachers to maintain the educational mission of the district and to make that the most important thing I also worry that the pay-to-play program is also regressive what about the kids that cannot that complete that means who cannot afford to pay and so I wonder whether in fact it might seem more difficult at the moment than whether it might not be more effective to just cut some extra curricular programs that might actually be popular and that might move people to be more exceptional so I need arts boosters position and what I was going
058to say this evening was that when that proposal came to the Arts visitors meeting I was furious to think that we are now going to start looking at our boosters to pay for educators infuriates me and I want to know if we're going to start doing that and expecting that and if the athletic boosters going to suddenly start paying a portion of the athletic directors salary because teachers are more important than anything and that's where this first article about educators and educators first so there's the downside to the fact that the music visitors I er it was decided to be generous and that is that the proposal to accept to fun stands for the steel drums accepted that was only a small something and when people myself included give money to artists boosters but used
059to be visitors I'm pretty certainly didn't think they were having to find teachers salaries teachers salaries [Music] anyone else with the comment [Music] nine classmate Grande alive first off I work with the school school took quite a while and you're in directing to the levees and their mandates that say you have to spend stuff on money that you made that necessary want to spend money on but you have to buy the statement the librarian the music teachers the pay to play those are the easy tests and that that's reason is there's nobody directly there's no class that loses the favorite teacher with the library and the favorite librarian but you don't lose somebody's eye group that's going to support that librarian I don't know the librarian by the way just so you know that but
060I do think the hard cuts are what needs to be dressed and the only we have in personnel and I heard earlier we have two global language teachers with a mandated position okay my concern is that we have somebody who impacts people who impact hundreds of students on a daily basis and you have teachers that are being hired for a small group of individuals that main maybe it would be those personnel pessimistic language teachers you have to literary coaches I think we need to look at the hard cuts the ones that are driven by a small group of parents who are always have been impacted in the last 20 years I've been involved in schools so I think we need to look at take it away what I call take away the nose because you
061always have a small group of people who are going to adjust to live no matter what no matter what change you have to take away their reasons saying no and they see making the hard cuts not the easy ones because the easy ones are next apply to be busing why did you care enough forever pay to play we'll work that out the boosters are giving your wife step up like this last time guys native place so it's the heart cut you have to show the community you're going to make did you take away those nose tournament so that's my speech [Music] as the librarian at GIS and see everything that class losing their teacher and I contestants it seemed like there was confusion about that I just want to briefly explain why I teach in
0624th grade I teach primarily they start the research process in fourth grade and so we look at a lot of nonfiction [Music] because they didn't have that instruction [Music] they have said in hearings afterwards right ball and so teachers they have the other recent information and not be exposing themselves to it was today recollection I mean this midnight spoiler that 124 Fairfax Court didn't really plan on speaking about it weirdo student perspectives we know in fairness I will be a partner in the high school for the next three days when I think about my time at Grendel it's the teachers and the other students that I've interacted on game experience so libraries to my teachers are here tonight and basically with this conversation I don't think that I'm disappointed is grateful not only just let
063me turn out to the customer maybe I just want to point out the irony in the fact that a lot of the reason this levy failed was because of the spreading of misinformation that they do the librarians are the ones that teach kids how now there are a lot of decisions that I thought should they at least on their ways could've been done but it's worth me ironic and I think the rationale was never given it was I think needs to be creation larger right of my experience money I would agree we're all very disappointed in who's on a different direction thank you would anyone else like to speak this evening No okay with that we'll close the public comment section thank you all for your comments we move now to the board discussion section
064of our agenda where the board typically discusses in open forums some of the issues of the day and obviously some of those issues were the ones addressed in public comment we've listed on our discussion of reduction and forced a funding for map a participation of course limited to that if there are comments for observations Jeff could you start by kind just framing the discussion about the process that is involved in a reduction in force and how we work with the Association and the administration and the board to come up with that so the reduction in force is first of all never something anybody wants to do administration board staff it's an unfortunate byproduct of something like a levy loss so what we do in the collective bargaining agreement we there is a structure of notification
065of the potential reduction in force that is given to the Education Association the administration starts working on a list of potential cuts that is shared with the Association leadership Association leadership then has the ability to go into executive session with the board and share their perspective which they did they met with the board prior to the election and then really once the levy failed we immediately went into executive session to formalize some of the items that needed to be discussed and we notify the employees and then there's a 14-day window for any board action to occur but from a criterion standpoint I think the the greatest criteria is having the least impact on the classroom so when you look at this list of the certificated staff 50% of them are administrative and 50% are teaching
066positions so you will see that there is a balance of administrative certificated teaching staff support staff and transportation so I think the board's criterion was to protect the classroom as much as possible yeah you can you can argue your the board you can articulate what your perspective was as far as the criteria yeah I I appreciated the session that we had with our teachers union the granville Education Association and and they brought forth some very good points that we did our best to listen to in trying to find a way to minimize that impact on the classroom right and for example fees are an important part of that to be able to minimize the number of teaching staff that are actually eliminated and I wish to say that there were lots of other administrative roles
067that are not important that we could have gotten rid of first there just aren't any from my perspective and we looked really long and hard and we tried to find it and we made cuts in the administration that are really bad for our district right you know specifically around an assistant principal at the who serves both the elementary in their media at school that's a really difficult position to lose administrative Lea but all of the roles that we have you know there's there are no good options right we don't have well and so fuzz in the organization and and and I wish there were I wish there were other magic solutions of things expensive things inexpensive administrators that we paid for that were not necessary but I think we were all pretty well aligned with
068the administration and the whole team that you worked with the the teaching staff through the through the Gea and the board as the community representatives and trying to come up with this prioritization and there's no prioritization that's good you know when you get to this level of things it's again not why we want to become board members it's not what we want to do is administration and so forth and I wish there were other ways I was gonna say I think I would disagree with mr. Manos I don't think any of these cuts were easy because we have these people here we obviously valued what it is what they knew unfortunately you know we had a deficit that we had to address and you know you know we have librarians because we think they're important
069you know cutting the assistant principal means now there's a one administrator at the elementary school who is in charge of 700 students and similarly a GIS and so under the age of 10 under the age of 10 so and you know our Communications Coordinator you know people always want more information and now it's going to come out less often so I would just argue that none of these cuts were particularly easy if you're over staff because your enrollments declining and you know that's a different story but that's not what's happening here and I would argue that none of these cuts were particularly easy to come to so I just wanted to say that but I do like what we did talk about was that you know we you know student-teacher ratios are important and they're
070important for the success of our students and we felt like you know at least in my opinion we did have to protect that as much as we possibly could because that that's - every single day most of the day that impact students so I would agree with mr. Brown's assessment that that's what we tried to to protect in these cuts I just I just like to add that the newest board member that my colleagues on the board we thought about this long and hard and as as mr. Brown mentioned our decision-making is what we thought would have the least impact on the classroom directly going into it and none of these decisions were made easy and we asked lots of questions and can we do certain things to try to minimize that and I think
071it's important for the public I'd like the public to understand that this wasn't taken lightly and we tried to minimize what we had to do following the results of the levy and and no one on this board which I'm privileged to serve and with took any of this lately and echo mr. Miller's comments it was really enlightening for me and encouraging when we did meet with the Education Association members it was a it was it was a very good discussion and these for myself I got a better understanding where they were coming from and they got an understanding about the board and there's a lot of mutual respect there which i think is a great situation for us to have I'd like to actually I really appreciate that Erica and Leticia came and spoke about
072what they do because this is not a decision because we didn't value what they did I mean it's not they are both phenomenal at what they do and annette char and theresa all are phenomenal at what they do we just had to make a decision to not deficit spend and so it is not that we didn't value their productivity or what they offer to our students and i'm really glad that they spoke about that and they're not alone in the community we've heard a lot of feedback from a number of community members right about all of these positions and significant concerns that I share and I think you're I think you're right I'm I'm glad I came and spoke to us tonight as well it put faces with the names that are on our paperwork
073here tonight every one of the folks that that we made a decision to terminate their employment as a person who served this district in this community extraordinarily well and selflessly it's been a job certainly they've been paid for it but anyone who knows educators knows it's more than just a job you know it's it's a calling it's a calling for each one of these folks it's a calling for the colleagues that they're leaving behind the lives they've impacted Maxwell indicated and others would second I know that impact will go on for a long pretty time no I'm my wife and I have four kids three of whom have graduated from the Granville school district my oldest daughter just finished her second year of law school she went to a good college and when she got
074that in college she called me up and she said dad you'd be amazed and how many kids are in my college who've never written more than a three or four page research paper they don't know how to do the research they don't know how to do the work they don't know how to put it together I learned that in the sixth grade and where she learned it was in the library you know that got her through college in three and a half years I'm an enormous league crowd obviously her father got her into law school it will serve her well than the rest of her career in the rest of her life so you know I've talked to a number of folks since the levy failed we heard comments tonight about what we spend versus
075the state average I'm not I've run a number of businesses I've run large divisions of large Northland multinational corporations I've also run startup businesses where I used to joke we were three guys in the closet trying to you know make a living and living on a shoestring budget I'm not naive enough to think that that any one of us anyone in the community couldn't point to one expenditure that we make in this in this thirty million dollar budget so you don't need that what everybody's gonna have a different view Darryl as you indicated everybody's gonna have a different view what I would say is it takes all of that to produce what is produced here and it's producing them obviously because we have wonderful a wonderful community that supports and demands excellence in education that
076prepares their children to learn we have a wonderful learning environment with a staff that is committed to do whatever it takes to make sure that every kid every child benefits from from that and so it's kind of in some ways surgical to go in and say we're gonna pick out a few positions in the thirty million dollar budget the staff of two hundred people and we're going to cut those folks and and while we say and we mean it that we tried to make cuts that wouldn't impact the classroom every one of those cuts is impactful to our children every single one we're not average in Grantville our schools aren't average the community doesn't want average so we spend more than its average we spend less than a lot of good schools to spend we'll
077spend more than average and I want to apologize for it we spend what we think it takes in order to provide the education that we think this community expects and I am enormous ly sorry for the folks that we're losing and the value that's lost the impact on their lives impact on the lives of kids that they work with every day the cost of good schools are not going down I'm always reminded of quote I don't know if Warren Buffett originated it but he said at the number of times price is what you pay value is what you get when we focus on the price instead of the value we lose sight of what really matters in this community and I think that that happens and I think it's incumbent upon all of us and
078this board I know welcomes the opportunity to engage with the community talk about the value that we create and what it costs to create that value we welcome the opportunity to examine every bit of what we spend to justify what we do and to find ways to save where we can save but to try like anything not to impact negatively the students that were responsible for we've not met that obligation tonight and making this decision and I'm sorry about that it's Thomas said none of us joined the board because we wanted to do that this is now the second go-round for me and several others of my colleagues on this board the last time was a little different and it still was very impactful to personal lives but we right-size the district because we we
079met over staff we're not over staff so there will be losses felt as a result of these cuts it may be a while before we recognize what those losses are around how impactful their but they're likely to be profound so I'm really grateful in honor that with Leticia and Erica came to speak to us tonight about what they did we should honor what they do because it does matter and I hope that they know that there are other comments that were made tonight and I think they're they're valid and we need to be concerned with them we've talked about pay to participate and the potential impact in in dissuading kids from participating from trying something new I mean this is the period in their life and we want our children in a safe environment to
080be trying new things try out a new instrument in the band try out a new sport on the athletic field try out something new in a club this is the time we want that to happen we want them to be experimenting to be filled with Wonder and to think about what they might do and I'm concerned as are we all that with fees that that we think we will end up imposing we may impose they will dissuade some kids I can tell you from experience one of my children played on the high school tennis team and in her senior year there were a couple of girls who came out for the team for the very first time and they had a ball when they started out they were just learning to play they didn't add
081significantly to the cost of that team the coach was already in place the facility was already in place those kids came out because they want to try something they became an integral part of that team you know that group of kids when they were seniors had a wonderful time they became United and and those girls all had that memory at the end and I don't know you know what impact it had on the lives of the girls who tried first I'm gonna have to imagine it was meaningful to them they'll look back on that and remember that and I think I least I worry that you know if they had to try something new for the first time when they had $175 fee on it maybe they wouldn't have done again that's a loss there's
082a loss for all of us so I'm not attempting to prejudge what we should or will do with respect to funding our schools I am as my colleagues are extraordinarily open and and eager to hear from folks and we want to find a way and we are we will do everything we can to be as efficient as we can as we have always tried to be but I think we all need to understand and recognize that every time something like this happens that every time we say we're not impacting the classroom that doesn't mean we're not impacting education we are yeah talk about process a little bit because there was some discussion during the lab me about why we didn't announce who we were going to or what cuts we were going to make ahead
083of time and you know that we're only now just discussing how we came to our decision and I just wanted to sort of I mean you you spoke about what you know there are things that we have to do with the Union and then we have to give them two weeks we can only I mean we have to go we can't vote on it for two weeks after we actually make you know the announcements or you know to the teachers but also you know as a board we can't discuss things in except for in a public space right and so this was our scheduled meeting so if we're not you're not getting the information only just now it's part of the process right and we weren't like sort of trying to hold back on anything
084and I personally didn't want to like sort of announce things ahead of time because these are people's lives and if they didn't we didn't have to make these cuts then I think I would have found horrible for you know having them be worried for six weeks that you know that their job is on the line and it unnecessarily so and so I just you know there's a lot of process involved in all of this and I just think I you know you know we need to sort of just lay that out there that did you know and the philosophy of communicating potential cuts prior to is viewed negatively it's like a snow day for me I'm wrong all the time so just to ask any you know fifty percent say I'm brilliant fifty percent say
085I'm not so much the same is true in your you're wrong on either side some people view that as a threat some people view that as not being transparent so we placed our error on you know not necessarily making people have to go through that process for six weeks leading up to the to the election so I think that you know unfortunately you know we have to go through the way the cuts that were identified in advances if it didn't pass we would have to make reductions in the budget yeah but we didn't say specifically is where those reductions would be and frankly is no as we talked about you know you could serve a hundred people in this community and you probably get maybe not 100 but a lot of different opinions about where
086we should have cut about this person or that person that this service or that service or this curriculum I don't think we could have done that we should have specified in there man I think there's also things you know I'm thinking about you know that we are getting outside funding to fund a part-time teacher well I you know I prefer not to do it there are people in the community who think we do too much and that we offer too much and so I don't think so and I think that this position at the intermediate school is really valuable there's a lot of students really interested in music I'm thankful to the boosters for for you know and perhaps it's only for a year and you know it protects that position so I appreciate that
087very much and you know sometimes we have to be creative in the way we find things in the short term so the one thing I would add is the boosters have all always funded auxilary instruction always they spend I would say you probably spend eight to nine thousand every thirteen thirteen thousand on direct instruction this year yeah so they bring in outside experts for sectionals and things like that so it's not necessarily uncommon it is uncommon for them to actually fund an employee that we are hiring and one thing I'd like to add and my involvement been through the athletic boosters and not just in Grandville but talking to my counterparts and other districts and even around the state and it's been very tough for me to get my my head around it is booster
088clubs are changing what I've lived in a lot a lot of different places outside of Ohio and the boosters what I'd characterize were always gravy and they were the extras and it's not just in our district but it what is being asked of them is changing over time and I've had to get used to that I was vehemently opposed to some of the things that we've funded in that then the last few years when it was first brought up and it's just it's just not unique to here into Granville it's there's a change going on what boosters are being asked to help support for better force so it's just I think I think it's kind of the way of the world and it's something we're gonna we're gonna have to deal with as as parents
089boosters and thing that that there's there's different requests being made by school districts so yeah it which reflects just a general trend in our nation in our taxation structure of pushing things locally right I mean and it's it's hard to get used to like people see like wow that's a big increase in my taxes yes it is right and we're just trying to meet inflationary growth primarily of the programs that we have in place but we also have a lot of a reduced funding and be leaks in the bucket due to unfunded mandates and things right so I think it's a shifting mentality like you said and whether it be to the boosters or whether it be from the state and federal government back to local districts right it's a it's a trend that's out
090there and it's really tough to get your arms around and tough to get used to and it manifested things like you know having to pay for the meat and taters inside the gravy right that's not what a booster organization should be right it manifested things like having to pay a whole lot more taxes locally right instead of counting on the state or some federal funding to do that and so forth and it's a it's a shift in mentality that's that's hard to take right it cuz it gotta think about a lot you got to look at the numbers you got to really analyze all the finances to figure out this is the right magnitude and so forth it's it it's hard to get your head around right if you're not really engaged right and you
091know and I think it's it's hard to be engaged enough you know we have a whole lot of folks in Grandville that don't have hours to sit through school funding discussions and things like that right and and I hope that they entrust us to some extent with helping understand those things and sitting through the hours and hours of presentations and really dig into those things as their representatives right cuz that's that's what I consider my job to be I mean I consider these funds to be my money our money our community's money as much and I entrust it like that and that's how we make our decisions but it's tough you know when you're being asked for a big increase here locally right you might not factor in other things that are happening in the
092and so forth and so I think it's just a continued communication process in a in a cultural readjustment and realignment that we need to get used to one other thing I'd like to address in discussions would pay to participate I'm old enough here that my son was involved in the one year that they had it and I know then and and the athletic boosters at least have offered that if there are student athletes that for pay to participate that they would help cover the cost of that so we you know hopeful that and so that's Russ was talking about that if they want to participate will be able to to support them to do that thank you um they to participate so what's the process every is it we're gonna start to see some proposals
093for it okay and that's when we'll discuss it more fully then okay you know that the amount has stated you know we targeted at $640,000 of reduction you saw the staff act on the staff side of the equation you're also acting on the shifting of the commit convenience fee pay to participate at this point we've just identified the target is number 175 and you'll come back with proposals about alternatives and so we can you know be engaged in that process get the community's feedback to make the right decision again and I'd like that kind of ask a question or see if we want to bring up I heard in the funding for earlier today a desire to have a community led initiative on a stadium or turf specifically right and I know this is our
094only chance to have a discussion about that and I'm not sure I'm prepared to because I just sort of heard that come up as a first concept and I wondered if others had comments on that or if there were thoughts on where we should go with that and it's hard to just ask you out of the blue on that right but it this is our only chance to talk and that was first really I'd heard of it you know and I've heard conversations and of course it was a conversation during our levy campaign which you know I think was fun a couple different ways and so forth unfortunately so I wanted to bring it up and see if other folks had thoughts or if there were ideas that how we should proceed relative to that
095maybe that was just a brainstorming idea that came up but at least that concept it's not a new idea we've talked about it not generally openly for a couple of years now about the fact that if we were to undertake significant improvements to the athletic stadium or even to all of our athletic facilities that it would be funded through by a fundraise to be a largely public but some who should be largely private but some public contribution similar to what happened when the playground was renovated recently the challenge there is finding members of the community and we're willing to step up and take on that significant obligation that go raise that amount of money I'm convinced we can do it I'm convinced it's the right way to do it and when I say that I'm
096talking about you know what whether a decision was made to put in turf or something like that I continue to believe that it's our obligation as a district in our obligation as a board to ensure that our facilities are safe and accessible for all our patrons whether it's students staff members of the community so it becomes to fixing problems with stands because they're not safe we have an obligation to do that but enhancements there's turf whether it's something else I think would like to be a private fundraising I think that's something we ought to we don't think about we ought to put our feelers out there if that's what the board would like to do to see whether there are folks in the community would like to take on that and that significant job I
097think it's also important to state that you are open to donors you know one of the things that I heard was that you know people have approached and been turned down I can I can say that my time leaving this district and and most of you who have served on this board it's similar time frames we are open for business so to speak if someone is interested in you know potential naming rights or any of those types of things there's policy involved with that but we are absolutely interested in those conversations just like we did with the indoor hitting facility at the baseball field a generous person decided to provide us the revenue to build that building and we did in a very short turnaround so I'm open for business if anybody is interested in
098you know one leading a campaign then you got extra time on your hands now you know I think it's important that I tend to agree with with mr. Jimmy's that the stands are a different story in my from my vantage point as you're a risk manager that is it's a different perspective but yeah public-private partnerships are absolutely the way to go and we would be interested in having those conversations it's not in that same conversation do they also want mention like raising money privately for just capital needs in general like and can we even do that like I didn't know if I like the sitting over here in the corner so I couldn't hear what you said oh okay it's not to say we can't really to buy boilers no but but I think it's
099kind of incumbent on us to kind of you know I hope the community understand the aspirational things that we do have right in light of our financial situation and what kinds of things we can do and I know the granville Education Foundation has had strategic discussions about like sort of what's next and we'll meet again tomorrow to talk a little bit about like in light of the levy what's next in what do we step up and do what are the projects that are maybe more significant but that can inspire you know community members to see wow I really would love to have a makerspace or how do we you know serve the function of library in some way or what are the other capital or or human capital kinds of needs we have and I
100think we need to be floating those out there as the district for the community's consideration to some capacity but the one thing that I will say is talking about staffing the problem is is when a private donor goes away that program tends to go away yeah so you need to look at one-time expenditures yeah that really are yeah capital need that's it I definitely think it's something that we need to help propel [Music] thank you if you move to action agenda important letters oh excuse me thank you the board reports in your necks and my name so I have the opportunity to report on economic sustainability which is obviously highly topical mentioned quite frequently tonight and I think in all quadrants of the room certainly in the quadrant of the room that I was in
101this sort of outside the box capabilities and to refresh everybody's recollection five years ago when we passed a levy by 41 votes this board shortly thereafter publicly repeatedly said that there's an issue here with not only financing our schools which is our responsibility but with economic sustainability in the community and that we needed to try and undertake an effort a community-wide effort involving all aspects of government and private enterprise to come up with a new way to look at economic sustainability and funding and predominantly that was focused on broadening the commercial tax base which is extremely narrow as we all know and this community relative to all the communities around the state we've had a number of endeavors over the last five years to try and that rock up the hill and we've not nearly
102enough success I better continue to try so just so everyone knows the economic sustainability committee which was formed out of the meeting that we convened with the village council the village the Church of Trustees the grd and the chamber several years ago met a number of times and then suddenly stopped meeting for reasons unclear to me there have been several other opportunities that I've been involved to thank Thomas has been involved Mike's been involved as well several other sort of subcommittees formed out of the trustees and the village council and they've been kind enough to invite us to participate most recently well recently as last night we had them but I think it's our final meeting of what was known as the South Main Street subcommittee that was to deal with the fact that the
103bridge on 37 over the highway is going to be replaced by ODOT beginning in 2019 I'm completely hopefully in 2020 as part of that there were a number of considerations over what the aesthetics of the bridge would look like I'm the least person qualified in the community to apply them with the bridges that I said look like others fortunately were better at that but we also talked about traffic flow because it impacts what we do we contribute mildly to the traffic in this community we talked about the installation installation of stoplights replacement stoplights at the bridge replacement stoplights at the intersection of South Main Street and River Road and Weaver we talked about creating a back-channel or spur road if you will off of River Road going sort of behind where the the village service
104center is and coming out somewhere around the IGA that would help alleviate some of the traffic load off of South Main Street when we also talked importantly about development on Weaver and River Road and extending sewer water which the village controls down from where it is now which is essentially just short of where Real Deals is around the corner towards the River Road coffee shop and making it available to not only River Road facility there but proposed development across the street I don't have any the bridge is gonna happen one way the other no that would be what they'll do we've made recommendations there but my particular interest was and that extension of sewer and water tribe Spurs of developing the committee met last night and the chairpersons bill Wilkin who's head of the village
105planning commission and grant Bert who's on the township trustees are going to take our recommendations and draft them and a final report and present it ultimately to the trustees until the village council really the key here is the village council because the develop control sewer and water and they'll control it to a large extent that spur road that this committee thinks needs to be built down off of River Road there will come a time when that report is available in draft form and I'd like to circulate it to everyone here and what I'll ask assuming report is consistent with what I believe we spoke with last night where Alaska's at the border Dorset and supported an urge that it be adopted by the village council on Township Trustees that's the most tangible opportunity for some
106economic sustainability for some commercial development in an area that is primed for commercial development that is not residential it is not going to negatively impact the lives of folks in homes in this community and I'd like to see that happen so I'll report back to that to this group it will certainly be by the next meeting maybe sooner than the next meeting the other aspect of economic sustainability is as you know we have all of us continue to advocate for the last number of years about [Music] development that is consistent with the general plan and conforms to zoning there was a proposal recently that the village council met on a number of times including the most recent meeting there's ago call the woods that's a residential commercial development down near a gravel road mr. Miller
107and I were at the meeting I spoke in favor of that I encouraged the council to approve projects which are again compliant with consistent with the general plan and compliant rezoning after a number of discussions they approved I think on afforded through both the residential portion and some of the commercial proportion they did not approve as proposed the developers ideas for a restaurant actually two restaurants in that commercial section down there I don't know what but we advocated for it not because we you know had any animus towards any of the homeowners who live next to that project but because and we think development commercial development consistent with the general plan performs the zoning needs to happen in this community they receive some criticism for that and my response would we've been singing that song
108for five years and it's our obligation to do that and we'll continue to do so I'm gonna jump off my soapbox here and stop but I appreciate all of the support that you all and encouragement that you all have given to this effort over this last period of time and what I would tell you is you know there's work to be done great the Granville Arts boosters meeting is next and I had that kind of privilege and honor to attend it's been a long time since I have and it was a fantastic forum there were 25 people there which was great for a booster organization I think partly inspired by the new focus on the Granville Arts boosters and the you know desire to get our hands around what that's going to be but we
109did have a significant discussion about the levy and a loss of levy and the discussion of temporarily funding the one position at the intermediate school was brought up and discussed and so I'm really pleased to hear that the music boosters have agreed to fund this portion of that right in a similar way that they fund the you know ongoing instruction and and I got I was a little surprised and pleased by the magnitude of the boosters annual budget it's a really significant contribution to our programs here in every way and they do a fantastic job of fundraising not just from community members individually but through their various fundraisers and more so I was really pleased to be a part of that and and I hope that we as a board can find ways to continue
110to engage in all of our support organizations and you know I'm committed to doing that I've been represented on the Granville Education Foundation but I know we have a huge sport in the PTO we have great some in both of our PTO s we have great support through the athletic boosters as well and I'd encourage us all to find ways to make more direct connections and find more opportunities to attend these are just folks that are as passionate about education as we are right and supportive in many ways and I think the more that we can be there with them right and hear their comments and concerns and hear their priorities and bring that to the board in the administration as well as communicate the things that are our mind and the things they're on
111that perspective of the district I think just really helps overall things work well and so I'm encouraged to find ways to do that and I did encourage us all to think about if we can divvy up those organizations and I'm not saying everybody to go to every meeting right but an occasional attendance in those I think would go a long way toward you know improving the communications in general right and finding a way to synchronize with our booster organizations that are so important for us so so I was I was really pleased to participate and great to see you know the active work that's going on there and then looking forward to continuing this to be engaged so I'm meeting Justin a spot on I think and I'm probably the worst at attending these meetings
112but but I think that's a real opportunity for us to continue to engage on a broader level and folks who is as Thomas said err or committed passionate to education and benefit of our kids so I think we would all benefit from engaging more frequently in that like us to think about not that I want a president we can invite ourselves to join but we certainly ought to be able to attend and get feedback and hear feedback I'll take care of athletic boots and what about average you can no but but I but I'd love to be involved with the had left boosters as well and I think if we kind of find ways to kind of divvy up our responsibilities and and connect with new and different groups and people like that will get
113really interesting ideas and feedback I think it's an important job of the board is to you know to be the arm of the community and the more we can reach out to not only those that are typical constituents or whatever but others as well I think that's really important for us so we spend a lot of time and I know Jeff and Mike work tirelessly working community organizations rotary Nicole honest chamber and other places and and Fred I know you've worked tirelessly with the Boosters we have opportunities I think not only with the affinity organizations like loosers music food art boosters excuse me athletic boosters but the PTO they have many school parents and others I think I would suggest that we consider for lack of a better word formalizing or institutionalizing that and making
114sure that we're doing that and getting out on a regular basis and then rotating last week was the annual election of board members and the annual finance community there were four positions that were voted on - were actually vacant - existing members there were six candidates for the four positions the four members who elected Betsey Hampton is different vice president maybe there's a longtime member or was really like this and there are three new members now to the board Kevin : Harriman and Rob are so pleased to have them this is the first time they've never been more people running for a position on their [Music] at the meeting that last Thursday the board took two actions that are partnering like what is 32 approved the community charge of charge for trails although they are
115not allowed to change it without the school but they did approve it and they also agree with the budget which is actually a portion of our capital budget who's actually three blind D's on the capital budget presentation earlier they are going to do the one to run again they've done that the last couple of years these safety pieces that were in the budget they're $37,000 for certain types of safety equipment in the nulling that ham to replace the van that is used to transport special-needs students that is [Music] any questions on any important port school now went to the action agenda okay action I have an 11 point oh one I recommend with regret and appreciation of service the reduction in force discussion and said as much as we can say with regret yeah sadly
116yes x-ray I'm 1100 - is the approval of shifting the convenience fee for online payments during the 1890s we're so moved second discussion questions it's roughly $40,000 the court has been covering and should be clear with one of the reasons that we have not in the past assess that community is because we wanted that needed to encourage the utilization of pay for it ultimately it had some cost savings to us in terms of you know standard there will be administrative burden from not from from people who look cute not too long the transaction fee is it a per transaction so that $40,000 could end up being less than 40 if we if we seen usage decline it's saving an expense but we could incur additional expenses [Music] another kind of concern that I have is
117it the fact that is a convenience allows people to pay more regularly and frequently you know and if we have to count on folks sending index and so forth you know I don't want to have to spend our time chasing people to do that and so forth but delinquencies and fees is an issue that we need to address in general as a district right to find ways and I know where handcuffs a bit by some of the regulations but there's got to be ways that we can ensure that we get payment for the fees that are due and that's going to become harder as the fees go up [Music] fine collected lunch beef because of so many the federal regulations let's have that discussion sooner rather than later please questions thank you 11 point O
1183 is now this time I'm actually happy about the list of the 2017-2018 graduates Amy beat me to it but I'm in a second it is one of the pleasures and so as always the board is invited to attend the graduation ceremony at the Mitchell Center on Sunday May 27th and at 2 o'clock but get there at 1:00 and Cathy will hopefully have spaces real information Yacktman so I'm very excited about walking another group of students across the stage that's good stuff yeah congratulations - you seem to be okay action item 1104 is the gift of the handbook for the 1819 school year gentlemen second so one of the major changes that needed to occur is we eliminated the a space program at the elementary and reallocated that staff member to fifth grade and so
119we had to adjust our gifted handbook and that's really the only major change that occurred in that handbook moving forward questions again the result of yeah [Music] hi next item is eleven point oh five the Alliance for high quality education views second this is our advocacy arm our lobbying arm that I am the vice chair of the Alliance and was downtown today trying to position ourselves to you know work with both gubernatorial candidates on not only funding but also some policy significant policy changes that would be in the best interest of all students in the state of Ohio we have a very good lobbyist that is part of that organization that is a real advocate for public education I think it's you know one of the clear feedbacks we heard throughout the the levy campaign
120was the broken system at the state level right and this is a minimal investment to have a big leverage on hopefully finding sustainable ways that the state overall as well as our local community can do it so so I'm supported this and I thank you very much for your time that you put it into it as well to make sure that that we can appropriately advocate there there's been some notable achievements in the past including changes that you advocated for in the state testing curriculum and and the teacher evaluation evaluation so hopefully the Senate bill the 216 will pass it might have gone out of the house this morning I have to check it's this time I said it's an investment that's worthwhile and more important all right thank you 11 point oh six is
121the approval of the resolution for membership in the Oh HSA so moved second this is our annual approval to be affiliated with the O HSA which is the governing body for athletics in Ohio questions I thank you eleven point oh seven is the lack of service level agreement for eighteen nineteen tell me as you know Lakha and mister mister wolf your your new so lack is our IDC our Information Technology Center there are several around the state that gets significant state funding to provide our infinite internet infrastructure so we are affiliated with Lakha with that service they are co-located in the Roosevelt Building in Newark with New York City Schools and the Lincoln County ESC and we typically those costs have remained stagnant or have gone down over time as they add new districts to
122the lack of service agreement and they do a pretty nice job in providing that service we feel like we have the ability to directly influence how they operate through our membership on their board [Music] sorry CTEK we say yes sorry that meeting was last night 11 point oh eight is the OSB a web-based update service so moved check it so we pay OS ba - how's our board policies and link to them on our website and so there's a service fee for that can they provide our updates yeah we provide updates and they also provide the quarterly that drive the policy updates that I thank you last action item is 11 point oh nine the approval of lunch price increase to move second so the lunch fee has been [Music] stagnant for five years we
123have not raised the price so it is it is not miss it is not due to the levee failure it is due to commodity pricing increases yeah I'm so proud of the food that we offer our kids and things like that that's it's really great you know when you go into our cafeterias and see what's being served compared to what the federal minimum standards are it's scary what those other standards are but we do a fantastic job in the fact that we've been able to keep our price in mind you know only increasing five cents over five years is not bad my kids will want to know if they get no pepperonis on Istanbul but I will tell you thank you we have a very full consent agenda so I all right so what I'd
124like to highlight one is the acceptance of donations and gifts and grants some from the PTO and others from the Lincoln County foundation we always appreciate the donations that we receive under the employment you have extended time contracts and all the service certified and support staff contract renewals for next year including the one year two year three hearing continuing contract personnel we also have the exempted employee contract renewals for people who operate within district office that are not administrative and with regret we have the acceptance of the resignations of Stephanie stands and Stephanie ever saw and Joe Dowling that Stephanie Stanton is leaving this role and fulfilling another role that is in partnership with C Tech on the business entrepreneurial pathway that we are partnering with them for next year so she is still within
125our organization but resigning from her current role as educational aid Stephie Eversole is our speech and language pathologist and she is going to pursue something outside of education but in the same healthcare role and and Joe Dowling is moving on so with appreciation of their service to our community I recommend their resignations and then the field trips as always those trips are paid for by the parents and for the organizations that they support on the speech-language pathologist reservation is that a position and Bill again or is that something we can we can track without side we absolutely have to fill that position we actually were in a position to talk about what we have to increase due to numbers because we only have two for the entire district and typically we have speech and language
126issues that are pretty comprehend at the lower grade levels and then you know the numbers get lower as they move up but it is something that we will absolutely need to have in place if we can't find an employee then we would look at potential contracted service [Music] that's funny we didn't receive copies of that so thank you I think that's you know gonna be such an important foundational thing as we start to think and come up with different strategies for you know how soui sustainably run the district and what services we offer and what we don't so it's one sort of baseline right that really I think needs to be thought about differently as we want to really consider what services we're gonna offer what capital needs we have and so forth that might
127or might not have been in there because you know again we can't include future levies in there and the spending that could be associated with those who will have to think differently about how we effectively and transparently communicate the forecast right not just as it was presented for the May forecast but as we would like to see it at the district and what kinds of things are in there and not in there in the future and what kind of things are at risk and what kinds of things you know we would like to do too you to grow the experience here but that's an important foundational document and I appreciate my call your [Music] grew my ward were given a scholarships we need we an episode of nature where the source of the revenue is
128but we have gotten a twelve hundred and fifteen dollar grant from the state to do transitional special education work for students a fun than we did not appropriate any money for this year and the third one is a reduction in the appropriation in the auxilary Services fund which is the money that passes through last two Granville Christian because their allocation ended up lower than the estimated amounts that was done earlier in the year because of the enrollment declines and on question and so it's just bringing the appropriation in line [Music] doesn't have any budget impact necessarily on us because that's all closed everybody don't know they're in a small impact event and so it does I suggested to mr. Ryan that we would happily give up 4% for them to directly fund Rambo position what
129this state deal with being the religion which is essentially what I am to do to make sure [Music] keep trying yeah and Mike thank you for allocating that thousand dollar award scholarship i we are adjourned let's see text somebody always says no