001Well, good evening. The time is now 7:08 on Monday, July the 28th, 2025. And I hereby call this meeting of the board of education of the Nordonia Hills City School District to order. This is a regular meeting of the Nordonia Hills City School District Board of Education. It is a meeting in public, but is not a public meeting. There will be an opportunity for public participation in the open form section of this meeting in a little bit later. All speakers should have already signed in and will be called to the podium at the appropriate time. If you are uncomfortable speaking during an open forum, comments and questions may always be submitted to the board and administration through email and phone call. Mr. Ker, please call the role. >> Mr. McKinley. >> Mr. Tidmore >> present.
002>> Mr. Fage >> present. >> Mr. Kernney here. Mr. L >> here. >> Pledge of allegiance. [Music] >> I pledge to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We'll have the approval of the agenda. Do want to bring to your attention we need a motion to uh make a addendum or a change to the agenda. Is there a motion? >> I will make the motion to modify and approve the agenda. >> Second. Any discussion? We are adding number seven and number eight to the president's part of the agenda. >> Thank you for that clarity. So that's approval of the treasury contract and the approval of the addendum and the five-year contract. >> Yep. >> Any
003further discussion? >> Mr. Lmer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernney. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tidmore. >> Yes. All right. We do not have anyone listed for open form. Correct. >> We have Haley Holt. And I do not see >> is Haley Holt present. >> Haley Holt is not present. >> She's hiding. >> All right. >> Haley did reach out. I did talk to H. She's a former student. Okay. >> And she's been working with Carrie. So she reached out. having us. She has some really unique ideas. Um, you know, she's really passionate and special education. We're going to meet with her and have her. She's one of my students. >> So, good good to know that we'll be able to get get it to the right people then. >> Yeah. Great. Awesome. >> All right. Committee
004reports. Uh, Mr. Lurman, did you receive a copy of Mr. Ro's uh report for CBCC? If I did, then it came late because I don't remember seeing it. Let me look real quick. >> All right. While you're looking, we'll go ahead and move to the OSBA legislative uh action. This was sent by uh Board President McKinley. In our absence, Governor DeWine made line item vetos in the budget bill, many of which are in the education portion of the budget. He eliminated item number 27 which is non-chartered educational savings account program and education tax credits. Item 51 STS and SER employee contributions. Item number 53 partisan school board elections. Item number 55 county budget commission's authority and procedures. It's a partial veto. Item number 63, 40% cash balance carryovers. Item number 65, 20 mill floor calculation,
005which would have included fixed sum levies. Item number 66, school district property tax restrictions, eliminations of fixed sum levies. Last week, the House voted to override the governor's veto on the elimination of the fixed sum emergency levies. The has not yet taken that up yet. It is expected that other education related vetos will be challenged in the future. This does not affect Nordonia, but will significantly affect other school districts and municipalities that have used fixed sum emergency levies. Just add a point to that. Um, glad that we were ahead of the game and making sure that we did not fall within that category and being real intentional about long-term sustainability financially by moving to that proposal of the five mill which was now approved here in our district. Any other uh comments on that before
006I move on? All right, Mr. Lara, did you have anything? >> No, I have nothing for Mr. Verost. >> All right. Uh, Miss Vadage. >> Nope. Foundation did not. >> Thank you. Uh, anything from your other committees, Mr. Lmer? >> No, we pushed fact back to next week. So, we'll have something for the next meeting. >> Awesome. Mr. Kier, >> nothing other than CBCC probably. >> Yeah, there's always one. >> Yeah, I think the last report said that just All right. >> Yep. We'll do. All right. That's all we have for committee reports. We'll move into our superintendent items. >> Oh, that's right. I do apologize. Uh, is there a motion? I'll make the motion for the approval of the addendum. >> Is there any discussion? >> No. Just so the the community knows when
007this goes onto the internet sometime. Um Kyle's original contract was a three-year contract. The third year was kind of a reopener. Um there was no salary defined. So we're just doing an addendum to to make some changes to the current contract. So nothing too significant. That's it. Mr. Keer. >> Mr. Lmer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernney. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tidmore. >> Yes. >> Miss Bage. >> Yes. >> Next item. We want to get a motion to approve the contract five-year contract for our treasurer, Mr. Kyle Keifer. Is there a motion? >> A motion. >> I will second. >> Any discussion? >> No. Just said, um, Kyle's been here two years. He's done a fantastic job. We really appreciate the way you and Casey work together. Very happy. So, we're giving you another five years.
008You're here for six years. Six more years. >> Yeah. I think it just speaks to the commitment we want to make to you. uh in response to the great work that you've done. Uh as I kind of shared in our work session, uh the success of a district is about the retention of good employees and you have demonstrated uh that ability. And so we're just looking forward to you continually working handinand with our superintendent and continuing to make Nordonia great. So looking forward to it. >> I want to jump into and echo a lot of what was said too. I appreciate all your hard work for the district. Um, I think it's evidenced by the uh above and beyond uh what we called you here to do. Um, whether it's the community events that you've
009engaged with over the last two years um and just a tremendous amount of extra time and hours and effort you've put into the district. I appreciate it. I know there's a lot of members in the community that provide that feedback as well. So, thank you. >> Thanks, Kyle. >> Can I see something? >> You sure can. >> Um, yeah. to the board and Mrs. McKinley, I've expressed this too and I want to thank her and thank all of you. Um, yeah, there's a lot to say. I I just want to say thank you. Thank you to u Superintendent Wright, the administrative team, all the building leaders, um, the teachers and staff. It's been a very busy of course a lot of lot of things have gone on the last couple years. Um but and then
010I think we've handled it uh with professionalism with discussion with meetings. Uh and I think the the goal as a treasurer and is to there's a reason why I do this and it's to my team knows this at Nauseium is we try to indirectly educate kids by supporting um the board community and staff um through the dollars and cents. So I it's it's firmly what I believe. There's a reason why I'm here. And then um I also want to thank my wife Jennifer. Uh it means a lot and honestly we believe in this district. Two years ago I would never think that um that we would be moved into the district. That wouldn't have been on the radar. And so um we I believe in this district. We have friends and family in this district.
011We we moved our life into this district. my my uh oldest will start kindergarten next year. Um, and I think I hope that's a testament to the great things that are going on. It's great. We can always have uh discussions and and go back and forth and um but I I truly believe in this district now and going forward. Thank you. >> All right, Mr. Keer. >> Mr. Kernney. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Tidmore, >> yes. Miss. >> Yes. >> All right. Now, we'll move to the superintendent recommendations. >> Thank you very much. I would ask for approval for the following consent. >> Motion. >> I'll second. >> Three things here. Three overnight field trips. One of them is a volleyball team. There's a lot of stuff going on this summer.
012They went to Cedar Point Sports Park, which I don't know if you've ever been there. Kind of an amazing place. Um really a testament to the hard work our coaches put in of all the work they do all the summer that the whole team Cedar Point for that for the volleyball tournament. So that was the first one. These next two you should write down go because the choir is going to go to New York City. Um they go every two years um and they'll go to New York City this year perform plus see a couple shows there. So amazing trip that is students and then every year they go down to date for this fest. I've been multiple times but it is really well done. You probably saw videos of it because I put those
013out there. And so that's what that is. That's really >> Any other discussion? >> Mr. Keer. >> Mr. Lmer. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tidmore. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernie. >> Yes. >> I'd ask for your approval for the transformation schedule for the 25 26 school year. It's also recommended the superintendent or design authorized their schedule during that same school. >> Motion >> second. >> Uh this is to Steve Marlo's work and Todd has been taking over for that. We have currently we're talking about today we have 36 drivers on staff, 32 routes and so a series of subs. So it's we're always looking for new bus drivers. So if you're watching this online, it is a great job and we'd love to have you. But this is approves the routes and
014we'll modify the routing change later. >> Any discussion? >> Mr. Keer. >> Mr. Kernney. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tidmore. >> Yes. >> Miss Bodage. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmer. >> Yes. >> I ask for your approval for 5year lease agree with Bose for High School relay. It's a mailings thousands of mailings. This is a machine that allows >> a motion. I'll second. >> And so any questions I can answer this. This is one of those things that schools have that uh we've had for probably when you were at the high school. >> So it's been around for a while. >> It's not that old. Yeah. Is it? Well, it's been updated, but I'm sure there was. >> Any discussion? >> Mr. Camper, >> Mr. Tidmore? >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmer? >> Yes. >> Miss Vodich?
015>> Yes. >> Mr. Kernney? >> Yes. >> I ask for approval for the university student teaching agreement for this. >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> Lots of student teachers, but uh they're part of law is they pay teachers. So this contract kind of outlines that what our expectations are and then you'll see later on I'll ask approval. We have a lot of teachers. So we'll just pay the school district it's like $300. So that's what that is. >> Any discussion? Mr. Keer. >> Mr. Tidmore. >> Yes. >> Modic. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernney. >> Yes. >> Mr. L. >> Yes. ask your approval agreement with Jewish Children's Bureau. It's commonly called Monarch for Special Education Related Services. >> Motion second. >> This is where one of our students with high needs that's placed outside
016of our district came into our district a couple years ago from outside of our district. It was placed there. We continued that. Uh Carrie's worked over the years to try to move this student back in. This is just not ready. The IP team has decided it's not. So that's what the contract is. It's a very expensive contract, but we owe that to our students, even our students that are most high needs. As an example, >> any more discussion? >> Mr. Keer, >> Mr. Tidmore, >> yes. >> Mr. Lmer, >> yes. >> Miss Badage, >> yes. >> Mr. Kernney, >> yes. >> As for your approval agreement with the ESC of Northeast Ohio for visually impaired student service. >> A motion. >> I'll second. >> Again, students with special needs. In this case, it is hourly.
017You see the break for there. So we do have students that use this but we can adjust this as we go. >> Any discussion? >> Mr. Keer. >> Miss Vodich. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tidmore. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernney. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lmer. >> Yes. >> Ask for approval with agreement with Heights Driving School for driving. >> I'll motion. >> I'll second. >> These guys have been around for a long time. >> It's like going down memory lane. >> Yeah. This happens every Yeah, this happens every July Heights is they rent out our building and we have an agreement with them that we give and then they actually give school. >> Any discussion? >> Mr. Keer, >> Mr. Kernney? >> Yes. >> Miss Fage? >> Yes. >> Mr. Tidmore? Yes, Mr. Lmer. >> Yes.
018>> I'd ask for approval for the following certified personnel. >> I'll make the motion. >> I'll second. >> Normal stuff here. We actually lost Miss Ericson. Disappointed. She's a young teacher, young family. She actually went to Gilmore and her kids are school age. So, she's going to go back at Gilmore because it's pretty good teaching, >> but she's a wonderful teacher. I'd love to see her come back. Open invitation to her. We would love to see that. Gary Lusk, this is something you uh you approved already. We knew Gary was going to leave in October, but he had to wait to meet STRS to find out what day in October. That's October. >> Yes, another new appointment. We filed a replacement for that English teacher that left. So, there's the replacement for that. And then
019these curriculum, these are normal stuff. So the first one is quick because we take a uh the first one is because we take a kindergarten teacher we share between two buildings we have to do a meet a meet greet drop right so she has to be in two different buildings so we approve her to do that then all these other ones are are people doing student teachers right so you see a bunch of people doing student teachers um second semester student teachers um cooperating teachers these guys are sharing somebody second semester these are sharing all those are cost in the district. We're just a pass again a new provide professional development for someone who has actually started yet. So our kindergarten teacher at Led View and Rushwood we're giving a professional development reading that's required
020but we're trying to do that before. Um other things are just new teacher orientation. I do want to say to Carrie K's done a nice job of this. Most of our replacements are special ed teachers because we did a buyout and we did not replace anybody who's absolutely necessary. But what you saw is a lot of young special education teachers coming into our district and I asked Carrie to put some professional development together. So they come on day one writing the way we want them to run it with them. So you see that and you see that training throughout that with that many new teachers in that high area. We got to make sure that we hit the ground running fast. The last one we had normal stuff, that's our mentorship program. It's required by
021the state of Ohio. Actually, I believe it's funded through some of the titles do that we if you're a new teacher in your first three years, you're assigned a wrest and then all those supplementals, those are all sports in there, too. So, fall sports are there. Um, I always hate putting these on because you start realizing what we pay a coach per hour. Yeah, it's kind of hard because we do we do pay them but I would say by the hour that they work >> under that the the days those are extended days. Those are contracts. We put those on there. They're already in the contract. Those are all your school counselors or psychologists. They start before the kids come back because we got to get schedules out, schedule changes, new enrollies, anybody coming into
022our district. We want you want to start The high school starts five days ahead of time six and then it changes by the time you go down. So those are all your counselors and schools. So purchase service marching band you see the purchase service volleyball you may recognize those are all Chadwood those are all alumni choir that's just the certified >> Joy Banks was helping with volleyball camp before she heads over to Europe to play professionally >> Oh wowing Awesome. Any other discussion? >> Mr. Keer. >> Mr. Lmer. >> Yes. >> M. Cottage. >> Yes. >> Mr. Tidmort. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernie. >> Yes. >> I'd ask for your approval for the following classified person. >> A motion. >> A second. >> Nothing crazy here. So, Taylor Amy, not to be confused with Amy
023Taylor, which is another teacher we have. This is They didn't start with us. We offered the job. We approved her for the job, but then she ended up leaving us and finding another job outside. So, you'll see that in there. Uh, food service manager. You'll see that in there. And then something I'm very proud of alumni. Here's another one of those guys where we wrote in our contract, right, that we are actually doing some more work with all the security, right? Districtwide security, districtwide security buttons. We want uniform. So Kan has a lot of talent as you know. So we wrote within our contract to assign in more tasks and also that's also going to allow us to reduce the number of monitors we have. So it's a it's really interesting because a very in
024my a very intelligent way to use that I'm proud of him doing that. And then our assistant at the high school, we always uh use a hair in the morning because she doesn't start the time. And when we cut all these pars, I said to the high school team, why don't you just put her to the time as you need and not? And so that's so being more intelligent about who's doing what work and so allows us. Those are the recommendations. Any discussion? >> Mr. Keer, >> Mr. Tidmore? >> Yes. >> Modic? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernney? >> Yes. >> Mr. L? >> Yes. >> All right. We'll turn it over to our treasurer for his recommendations. >> You will see two um items today before I get to the the end of the fiscal
025year. um just a fund transfer from a leftover uh account from 2023. So no matter what the transfer is, it's g um whether it's a dollar this time is $55 or it's $55,000. The transfer will go to um the class of 2026 from the class of 2023. So the class of 23 will be um the account will be null and void now. Um and then you'll see a approved petty cash and change funds for 2526 that is getting ready for the school year. This is I want to thank my team coming out of um the end of the fiscal year and then rolling right into the new new year. So I'm very appreciative to um to Melissa, Erica, Katie, uh Barb and Bernie um and Amy and as well as every uh secretary that's basically
026dotted line to the treasur's office. Very appreciative. Um and then for today's focus. So this is to report on the items at June 30th at the end of the fiscal year 25 the 2425 school year. We are now completed with that last school year. 71 is technically the the party for the next school year as we begin. Um So, I will uh mention that our cash is a little bit lower um than this time uh last year. That's obvious. We knew that there was deficit spending for this year, and I'll get into that in a little bit. Um revenue, same thing. The prior year collections was much higher. That's because last year, if you remember, at this time, collections from the county rolled in a little bit a month or two behind. So, it's definitely
027skewed in June to June. But you can see in um collections uh a little bit about 1.9% increase over this time from fiscal 20 4 to fiscal 25. That's mainly from local reimbursements mainly through personal property and utilities expenditures about about even. Um you can see a little bit of a reduction from the salaries and benefits from what the district did last year. So in the fiscal 24 to fiscal 25 and then overall um a little bit of an increase of 2.4% and I would give um still give ready credit from 24 to 25.4% increase. We've had increased purchase services uh we have all other uh uh uh we had from mainly through our property taxes, our our fees and then um that's a big kudos because we still had increases in contractual agreements, still
028had step increases and we had increases in purchase service. So you can see us tightening our belt from last year to the to one we just finished the last two years um into the overall expenditure analysis uh for the fiscal year. So let's get into that. So overall, these were just these are just more slides. I don't want to gloss over them of an analyzing total revenue to forecast and then total expenditures to forecast, but I'm going to get into that. So overall, uh the def the district deficit spent $710,000. That is well within um forecasted uh from November and of May. And then I'd like to go through like a little bit of a journey where we've been. So all the forecasts that I have given. So if we went to forecast of 2025,
029these are real numbers, real savings. We were projecting a negative $4.9 million for fiscal 25. May of 23, May of 241.7 and then May of 251.1. So that we went from negative one point negative $5 million to $710,000. That in my opinion there's sometimes in a forecast a little bit more conservative, but if you look at if you look at what was actually and benefits in the um the positions that we reduced in my in my uh opinion and a very logical humane way of doing it that was periodically through many different school years. And so kudos to everybody in the board and team um and our unions for everybody being on board. And so that really uh gives us last year we were negative 431,000 this year negative710,000 in fiscal 23 was a positive
030400,000 so you have three fiscal years that I would challenge that it's very hard if you're not a district of our size midsize school district I would challenge any other district that's not in fiscal caution or emergency or basically the state telling them to do it of having three years that close in in um in our deficit or surplus. Can't guarantee that of course going into the future. Hence why we had a levy, hence why the the board we had spirited discussion and we just talked about it. Um but kudos to everybody because that's three years of basically of a $60 million budget um being almost like flat. And so I cannot stress that enough. >> Yeah, great perspective. Thank you for sharing. >> Any uh questions or discussion? All right, Mr. Keer, >> Mr.
031Sorry, you have to read the fund transfer. Oh, approval of the fund transfer. Sorry. >> Is there a motion to approve the fund transfer? We're still doing We're doing the consent items first. I'm sorry. That's what I was I'll make I will make a motion for the consent items. >> Thank you. Is there a motion? >> All right. It's been properly moved and seconded. >> We lost the line. >> Sorry about that, Mr. >> No problem. >> Mr. Lmer. >> Yes. >> Madich. >> Yes. >> Mr. Dmore. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernney. >> Yes. I'll make the motion for the fund transfer. >> Any discussion? >> Mr. Keer? >> Mr. Farmer? >> Yes. >> Mr. Kernney? >> Yes. >> Mr. Tidmore? >> Yes. >> Miss Bonnage? >> Yes. >> All right. I think we've covered
032all of our items. Just do the petty cash one. I'll make the motion to the petty cash change fund. I'll second. >> Any discussion? >> All right. Mr. Ker, >> Mr. Lmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Kernney, >> yes. >> Mr. Tidmore, >> yes. >> Miss, >> yes. >> All right. Is there a motion on the floor to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> I'll second. >> All right, Mr. Keer. Our next regular meeting will be in August 25th at 7 p.m. >> here at Northfield Elementary School, Road, Northfield, Ohio 4467. >> Mr. Keer, >> Mr. Curtney, >> yes. >> Miss Vadic, >> yes. >> Mr. Tidmore, >> yes. >> Mr. Lmer, >> yes. Journ at 7:38. >> Thank you, sir. Have a wonderful