001pm on monday april 25th 2022 and i hereby call this meeting of the board of education of nordonian hill city school district to order this is a typical meeting of the nordonian hill city school district board of education it's a meeting in public but is not a public meeting the public is invited to watch the proceedings of the board there will be opportunity for public participation in the open forum section of the meeting just a little bit later please be sure to sign in well you should have already signed in as now that the meeting is started no more signatures for signing in will be taken if you are uncomfortable with open forum please know that your comments and questions can always be submitted to the board and administration through emails and phone calls mr
002brown would you please call the role mr kearney eric mr larimer here mr mckinley here mr tidmor here is bondage here i'll board members president it will stand for the pledge of allegiance united states please america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all great can i get a motion for the approval of the agenda please a motion second mr brown mr kearney yes mr larman yes mrs mckinley yes mr tidmor yes ms bonage yes or she carries all right i am so excited uh about this board meeting because it's the first time in a long time where we've invited um kids uh here we used to bring kids all the time and then covet and as we seem to be getting through that
003i'm so excited because we have some great things going on and today we're going to start out with robert conrod our athletic director talking about our state qualifiers for bowling and wrestling rob thank you dr clark and members of the board we appreciate you having us here this evening uh as you said we had a terrific winter season to get uh plenty of young men and one young lady that we're going to recognize tonight they're qualifying for the the state tournaments in their respective sports so first i'd like to call up our sophomore bull lord ladies first so sophomore bowler colby lewin colby advanced the state championship tournament this year in columbus and ended up finishing 32nd in the state of ohio with the 541 series series down at columbus colby you want to come
004on [Applause] let's have them stand up here in the front and then we'll shake their hands right here okay this next group uh they seem to be here pretty much every year uh but our varsity boys bowling team uh advanced their third consecutive state bowling tournament their fourth one in the last five years this year our boys team actually finished uh the highest out of any north node boys team in the uh school history they were third in the state of ohio this year so they did a tremendous job and we'd like to recognize uh the guys on the team was made up of seniors kyle drazel matt hubsy ben juriga evan taronski and juniors bryce lewin rj lewis jeremy patterson and matt willis so guys come on up [Applause] that's a special note uh
005kyle finished sixth in the state of ohio and second team uh all the high honors with three uh or with the 676 series and bryce was a state runner-up finished second in the state of ohio with a series of uh 719 so they were fantastic and so our new board members know you have provided them with gift cards to either burritos or chicken i'm not really sure but uh they will like it anyway in the last fours if you guys would come down like the gauntlet and shake our boards in we'd be very happy to do this thank you [Applause] [Music] next we have uh two young men from our wrestling team that also advanced uh the state wrestling tournament this winter uh in columbus uh first uh sophomore israel petite uh dizzy this was
006his second time qualifying for the state tournament and he went on and finished uh seventh place at the 138 pound weight class israel coming up [Applause] and our next wrestler uh earned his first uh state tournament uh birth uh junior jeremy olsko at 165 pounds finished fourth in the state of ohio [Applause] oh [Music] get ready [Applause] thanks rob and congratulations to our athletes you guys continue to make us proud and you are absolutely welcome to stick around for the rest of the board i think it's going to be a whole lot of fun or i know rosadie's is open i don't know what their flavor is but i think you deserve ice cream so you're welcome to stay or you're welcome to finally make your way up [Applause] okay now that the next thing
007that is super exciting to us you know that we are focused on stem we're doing what we can to continue to build our stem program we're not where we want to be we're getting there and another big step is our new robotics team and running that is kelly neisen a teacher at the high school so kelly you want to come up and talk about the team and show the thought and whatever it is good evening uh this year i was tasked with starting a robotics book and so we decided to compete in the fr city competition if you don't know anything about the frc competition we were given 10 weeks three crates of things 10 weeks to build a robot to do certain challenges and the challenges vary from year to year this year was
008shooting a ball at two different levels and also a climber um being our first year we didn't quite get to designing the climber and putting it on however we accomplished every single goal that we set out to when we stepped foot in the convention center what the end of march my goal for these four young boys was when we plugged in the robot it worked and it did it did not catch fire and it is still working today um but one thing that frc really stresses is gracious professionalism and i was blown away the moment we stepped foot into our pit there were 60 teams there not all from ohio the one team that helped us honestly every single three days we were there was from new york um they came over what do you
009guys need after a match when things weren't going well what do you need fix what do we want to do next um after the first day our practice matches we were like okay the ball got up there but we didn't score a point the next day we said let's score a point we scored two three something like that so um and out of 60 teens we actually were ranked 53rd which i can't complain about that and we also won the rookie inspiration award um [Applause] they wanted to show up a little bit of what it can do um there was balls that we had to and as you can see sometimes it doesn't go as planned and it broke and that is when when you're on the field because you have three minutes the first
01030 seconds is all automated so you had to program the robot without you controlling it and then the last two minutes and 30 seconds you can control it with the and so if that happened which that actually happened to us an awful lot we went on defense and was trying to help our other team score more and the other not scored more so thank you very much for this opportunity we hope to grow this program even more because i think the boys had a lot of fun and have a lot more ideas come out of this so thank you [Applause] stay on purpose um [Music] down you could make a robot next year that calls snow days that would be great to mention that our robot's name is todd congratulations to our robotics steve thank
011you for uh starting this program we're looking for great things in the future and kelly of course will be uh teaching students in our new innovation lab at mordonia high school next fall congratulations kelly and team thank you very much and you two are welcome to stay or you're welcome to go get some ice cream i do have to admit getting kids back here it's just it's the way things are supposed to be glad to have them all back all right and then the next item is really i wanted the board to have an opportunity to discuss the steering committee recommendation you know that last month our steering committee which had been meeting since september uh presented to the board their recommendations for facilities and i i want the board to have the opportunity to
012show full transparency in their discussions so i'm not asking the board to vote on anything tonight it's really just a an opportunity for the board to discuss their thoughts about the steering committee recommendation and don ferrante from seoul harris today in the front row he's an architect who could answer any questions that you might have and also matt can talk to the board about what the timeline would be if the board decides that they want to move forward so i'll just start real quick so everyone knows what the timeline is that we're looking at if the board decides to move forward in this endeavor under ohio law it governs how a school district can put a levy on the school ballot or on the election ballot whether it be an operating online emergency levy um
013so we're looking at a bond levy in this instance and as a result there are specific deadlines that the board has to meet to be able to put that levy onto the ballot in november specifically because we will be utilizing a special needs determination that is a statute requirement under provided by ohio department of education the first resolution for that special needs determination will need to be made no later than 120 days prior to the november 8th election so that's july 11 would be that requirement and basically that's giving the uh telling the board or telling ode that the board would like to use that special needs designation it's not putting anything on the ballot it's just giving a notice to od saying hey we we want to go on to the ballot potentially for
014this dollar amount we need your blessing essentially that we can do that the more important items or resolutions that need to be taken care of are two specific resolutions that have to be done in two separate board meetings the first resolution would be called resolution of necessity and the second resolution would be a resolution for first proceeding and those both have to be passed by the 98th day prior to the november 8th election which would be august 2nd and then by august 10th which is 90 days prior to the election i'd have to submit all of that documentation to this uh summit county board of elections so that they could get that so i wanted to put that out there for you so you're aware of the timeline time frames that we're looking at a
015lot of moving parts between now and then but if you have any specific questions i just want to start by thanking the steering committee um i know you guys we put in a lot of time we have quite a few meetings um thank you for everything you did there's a lot of work i know in most meetings there's between 20 and 30 people there we had a number of meetings so just start by saying thank you yeah now just a follow-up to that of how much does it cost to certify a bond issue to the ballot for the school district so it from my experience in color county it was depending on the amount of issues on the ballot and they would distribute it out per rate that cost for the full roll out of
016all the elections so it's hard to know the true number it just depends on how many uh different levees are put throughout the whole county i'm assuming that's the same result i mean is it like five to ten thousand is it hundred thousand i mean yeah i don't know that i can i can find that for you and get you that information but i don't know um and what do we do if costs escalate beyond what we projected do we turn residents and ask for more money or how does the school district handle that multi-faceted approach really um the steering committee did discuss that somewhat of having a basically a plan and a plan b so you know plan a might be three brand new buildings um costs escalate maybe the plan b is two
017buildings and renovate the third so i know that that was discussed at different meetings about having a contingency it's gonna really how much can we pass you know how much can we certify how much can we task how much you know where the costs go from here and on top of that obviously if you would move forward with a bond levy once that debt is issued we would have the ability to invest those funds as the drawdown period starts and that would accumulate interest earnings most likely in the multi-million dollar threshold to help for any overages additionally there are additional resources that the district could utilize if we needed to to tap into any overages but let's you know let's plan ahead so that we know that we're not going to need to do that
018sure sure and just to segue off of that is there any way that we can lock in like a maximum um uh price agreement like i know north royalton did that recently when they built new facilities um which i think protects obviously the district sure is that an option for us yeah and don maybe it'll provide a little bit more input into that but you have various options when you go out and select the contractor um the most recent trend is construction manager at risk type of deal where you settle on a guaranteed maximum price for a building contract basically that contractor has to work within that those price restrictions now scope enhancements errors and emissions that can expand that beyond what the guaranteed maximum price is so those are things to factor in and
019when you're going through a construction project you always kind of set aside one to two percent of contingency uh just for those very real issues that could come up for sure i don't know any other things you want to add you hit the main points the other thing is we go through design um and you actually have your construction manager on on board they are working hand-in-hand with the design team so they will advise consent in the sense of where the market is and where construction costs are and the biggest thing we do on every single project is you know the goal for every school district is we need the educational needs that's our priority if there's some things that we can enhance then we may look at those things as long as alternate bids
020so what happens there is at the time of bid day if the numbers come in less then you have an opportunity to look at an alternate list to select some of those enhanced features that you may want to do with the models work well i know we've gone through some turbulent times here in last year or so but um you know hopefully things will stabilize here just to follow up too when you're saying stabilizing we're looking forward in the next year or two just because i pulled research from the association of general contractors and they had indicated that from 2020 to 2021 there was essentially a 19 increase in cost to build so how how do we wrestle with that as a district and that's that's more than two or three percent 20 that's astronomical
021yeah i'm glad you brought that up i mean um literally um and i think i shared this information the ohio facilities construction commission every year in april they come out what they call what they call as a cost set so they look at the industry standards in the sense of construction cost and they inject they adjust the cost per square foot um further buildings based on where they see that trend is going and literally it was um it was an official release but i was able to get the information last friday and they adjusted it 19 just over 19 so when they do that um when it comes out in april they are projecting out when the shovels will hit the ground um this is the largest increase based on construction cost inflation that they've
022done in over a decade so they are they are doing their due diligence like i said uh several times they are serving uh all the school districts in the state of ohio so they're trying to you know make things right there based on what they're trying to tell school districts where the budgets may fall has that number ever gone down in your experience it's interesting you say that um during the recession time of 0.708 era um take it back we went through oh four and o six there was kind of an inflation spike there was hit like six percent and then we had the recession and then as i mentioned about the cost that they were projecting what that cost may be well when we actually had a few projects in 07.08 they were coming
023in 25 on your budget because of the recession so i said you don't know what that future's gonna hold but um they never brought the cost down to my knowledge it looks like uh from the article that i pulled they did from 17 to 19. so 2017 into 2019 it looked like it was actually negative negative five percent at the end of 2019. i knew there was a couple years worth remaining flat but i didn't realize they may have went down afterwards thank you for answering those so when we started this process you know dr clark and i had some conversations prior to the steering committee meetings i fully expected this to come into this and reduce at least one building um you know then the steering committee came in and we had talks about
024two buildings three buildings four buildings i was really shocked to see the community was the people the steering committee were really interested in dropping getting rid of two or three buildings you know depending on which route they go um so there could be some significant operational savings somewhere here in the future it might not hit right away because we have to wait till we can get some buildings up and running and shut some buildings down thought that was a pretty interesting you know and i also kind of thought when we started that we'd be looking at k-8 buildings and maybe just some upgrades and renovations on our high school steering fitting was very adamant that the high school is the face of our community that's what brings five municipalities together that's where everybody needs that's
025where we have our events exploring events our community so um they were pretty adamant they really want a new high school to pull this together chad i have one more question i apologize if the bond fails in november what's the process for the district i'm assuming the board would determine if we would try again come may live do we have to pay the contractors anything for that failure if it didn't pass in november we don't we don't really enter into any there would be some ancillary charges for the pre-bond work that's done by dominic sperm but those are we've already entered into that contract i i think you know i think a bond issue will tell a lot i i've talked to i don't live in the community you know that i've talked to a
026lot of people and i think the one thing the several things that are constant are people recognize that our our buildings are old that our buildings are not efficient people recognize that consolidating is a good thing i think nobody wants to pay more in taxes i think those are all common um but i think that you know the steering committee has put together a nice plan and i think that i think i think the community will support it if i'm wrong i think what the board would need to do is decide okay so what next and i think that depends on how it does in the election right if it's if it's close what does that tell us or if it loses significantly i think that tells us something completely different too and does that
027tell us that maybe we're asking to fight off more than we can chew i don't know the steering committee was pretty um consistent that this is a solid plan it's it's like chad said it's much bigger scope than i had ever expected to but i think it's it's a wise person for sure so i i in you know if i were guiding the board i'd say the steering committee's spoken i think we should take their plan and see if the community agrees with it okay i think the the piece that is standing out so prevalently prevalently to me is that we've crossed the two-thirds threshold um when we look at renovating versus construction and it's like that old car you've got sitting in the driveway and it's like do i put more money in it
028or is it just going to keep pickling and valuing me is it time to upgrade whether as a car you go buy your new used car or um you go and purchase brand new all right that two-thirds threshold is is alarming and we have passed it we have a building with a sinking foundation um we have i mean you guys hear the things that we are fixing every year and those fixes are not getting any easier and when we look at ourselves educating children in the 21st century what does that look like well mr russ it's getting a little harder and a little harder to make sure that our buildings are capable of running what is is needed for that educational process so those are all things that are running through mine i mean i
029guess to that point having had that conversation with mr russ and even just our technology infrastructure needs that we have um just looking at our current condition and current capacity we're not set up to accommodate that so i mean we we all could probably weigh in and i agree i've been in conversation with several of our community members trying to figure out what are some of those points um and i hear inflation so let's just deal with that right a lot of times we hear people talking about what the cost of what it's going to take to build uh but you know think about that in relation to the cost that's going to you know for renovations and i don't think that there's a separate set of wood for renovation that there is rebuilding so
030we're going to pay for renovations but low once you left to your point put more money into buildings that won't be able to pay accommodate the technology infrastructure that we need or be even at some point well we fix the walls and we do the cosmetic things to make it feel and look better but then as the foundation is sinking we all know a little that i've learned about the process is that you can't do anything when you've got a bad foundation so um you know those are all price points and i think i think like dr clark said what we really need to do is when we put it or if that is the direction we go in we'll know and the voters will tell us hey we're with it or we're absolutely not
031and i think if it is close then we need to consider what is that response to that um but it's definitely we're definitely in a place where we've gone as liz said beyond the two-thirds spreadsheet and i think our kids just deserve better i think they deserve better and uh you know i'm kind of that mid point because i've got an itty bitty who will probably benefit from this my illness uh that's in the district uh but she'll be able to have somewhere to come home to and be proud of so that's my way dude um do we know when the operational savings will take them i mean do we have an estimate you know a year from now once we consolidate buildings potentially you know how do we know where we're saving all that
032money i guess that's a little bit of a variable but ideally what we've talked about is anytime you take down a building um you're potentially going to be saving roughly 700 000 per year over that span so it does add up significantly over that period and ultimately it may help pay for them facilities down the road so i mean i always make this comparison at home it's you know i'm a father i got two kids you know it's kind of like somebody brought up the car issue it's like now i got five cars sitting there at home because you know each kid has that car you just see the maintenance of everything that you're taking care of keep on going up and up um so one of my kids gonna be graduating you're on your
033own so have fun maintaining your own vehicle or my costs are going to go down because i don't have to help maintain that anymore so i kind of use that comparison all the time and you know the less buildings the less square footage you got to take care of over time it's definitely going to save you cost another real issue about the cost savings is staffing quite frankly and and i'm leery to say this because i don't want teaching staff to go into a panic thinking oh we're going to eliminate teachers that's not the plan however running three separate elementary buildings is more costly than running one separate elementor building because to reduce class sizes like at legend view where my average class size might be 25 and at northfield it's if those were together
034that's a you know that saves me a teacher and i i think that when you combine the elementary schools you could save upwards of 10 teaching positions i think when you combine lee eaton and the middle school you could save probably upwards of six teaching positions my hope would be that you do it through attrition we have a staff that is um they were young when i started and now they're a lot older now we have staff members that are getting close to retirement and i think part of part of um you know when we see what's going to happen in the future what happens in november does the board put it on if it passes then we start being very conscientious about okay well we know that in according to this timeline in two
035years we should have a new elementary building so can we not replace this feature or could be put a sub in or could we just know that we're going to be reducing some spots it's not it's absolutely not an exact science but i think that's where you start to see is when the buildings are combined that's where the costs are the cost in any school is people right really it's a it's a people run organization for sure and that would be the best place to be able to to see a savings is over time eliminating the use for multiple teachers in multiple places or being able to use the same teacher uh over in this other building or whatever so um for sure i've seen that happen in other places as well um but also
036i just wanted to mention also uh dr clark brought up my same feelings about it was that i've been since before i was a board member i have been um following the steering committee and what they're doing since since since its inception in the fall um and if what has come out of that is any indication of what the community is going to do vote wise i i really feel like it's a positive thing um and that's just been my observations from being part of that and getting reports from that and um hearing from the people in the community so far it really does seem like the best direction to try and take i guess kind of investing in we were talking about the draw down and so there is potential where the funds that
037we are allocating can earn us residuals that can go into the project itself is that what i heard from that yes that's correct uh so obviously we'll have a significant amount of money at one point to invest and use and make sure that it is maturing at certain times you need our drawdown requirements to make payments to the humber to the other uh construction workers that we we work with not to you not to you specifically but that's going to happen over a five year period or however long the construction time frame is so during that time that money is sitting and working for us while while we're working on the project and we splatter the maturity so that we have the money available to pay down uh the current commitments served when they come
038to you so in actuality you know as there's the flip side to rising interest rates uh hurts when you issue that but then it also helps with the investment of those funds as well so um there's a flip side to that evaluation too that we have to consider and yes we could use those funds for helping complete the project it's a it's a good backstop to have if you have overages uh run into those price fluctuation issues to have that interest available to so we typically assist the district in putting together cash flow projection so that they know when bills would be coming through the construction progress um that that would be able to see all right those funds are going to be available and not once i see those groups so as you can
039imagine the fake dollars will be coming two to three years down until you find what you know the shovels on the ground the building's starting to go up that's where your big construction costs will be they'll start seeing this and then the last thing that a treasurer wants to do is listen to a superintendent open his mouth if you're talking about 150 million dollars in bonds that are that are issued and you're investing i'm about three percent while you're waiting to pay some bills we're not talking um we're talking pretty sizable millions of dollars in growth that could help papers now when does our next bond fall off for the community so the last year a taxpayer would have to pay on the 2000 bond issuance would be 2025. and then in 2013 it comes
040down i keep the next bond insurance is i think you had mentioned invoices or at least obviously during construction i'm assuming you're going through a lot more detail obviously what was submitted to us is very broad right i mean as far as actual what's going into the buildings so how do we ensure uh kind of twofold one that there's no surprises and two um that we're good stewards of taxpayers money for instance in flexible property heights i'm sure a lot of folks have heard about the 26 000 slide that was going in their new facility so how do we prevent that here in our district so i will share this with you i mean so when any district goes to this process or district typically hires a construction manager and then of course the architects
041on board also um we work for you guys i mean i always tell district that we're watching out for your dollars in the sense of how they ultimately will get spent and also how we design the building potentially the same topics when we get into construction and there's potentially um i'm going to just bring on board changes and the contractor's got to submit a change request for it those requests come to us and we evaluate it so it's not just a rubber stamp or like all right here you got to pay it i mean there's a lot of back and forth that goes on in our office to help reduce that cost and i will i can say this for a fact we have reduced cost as they come across our desk before they actually
042get to the owner's desk so um at the end of the day i mean we know budgets are going to be tight um but ultimately um you know it's part of our job to watch those dollars and the design phase is committee work too right i mean it's there are board members on this committee with teachers with community members so um i i don't know much about brexville i'm hoping that if they put a 26 000 sliding board in that they had the whole committee according to that if not that's a that's a sign of a dysfunctional committee i would think that our committee would get and what is best for you right and i'd also have too if typically the best practice would be if there's a change order over 50 000 dollars that
043would not be fully approved until the board approved it so that it would be brought to you so you're aware of why we're doing this change order what's it for what's the purpose and then ultimately you as a board have a decision whether to move forward with that typically that's how it's done even on the state side there's usually a you know the state is involved in your project the local state representative would only have an authorization to go up to you know the same level as you know the superintendent but it was more than fifty thousand dollars and they would have to go down one was just like come to you as uh dr clark what happens to our school facilities that we're leaving essentially if the spot is passed we can celebrate the
044facilities are they offered first to private institutions for education which i know we just had a meeting yeah we did no that's a that's a big concern and i think that um the answer to that is i mean to be answered later but i know what our concerns are our concerns are that we do not want charter schools to come in and purchase abandoned buildings from us which state law allows them to do unless you do something with them first which you might get might mean raising some buildings um it might mean and i'm i'm willing to be very creative i think that our communities have been supportive of us um i'm willing and i'm or would obviously have to agree to something like this but if there's any kind of partnership we can come
045up with our communities if it's land swaps or even land donations you know because when we go from uh six buildings to three we're not going to need all that extra land we're not going to need empty buildings and we're not going to need to take care of it right and this is going to be a plan that takes us for the next 75 years so my hope would be we do anything in our power to not let them get into charter schools hands and that would be a process i think we would start probably right after the design phase starts when we can start talking to our attorneys to get us through what do we have to do specifically so a charter school can't come in and purchase those thank you i just want
046to so i was following a conversation on social media regarding some of this building stuff um just to be clear of how it works we passed the levy in 2019 and in 2020 everybody's taxes went up in 2021 they did a reappraisal some people's taxes went up some people's taxes stayed the same some people's taxes went down um but we still get the same amount of money in 2021 than we did in 2020. this one individual was complaining that their taxes went up in 2009 or 2020 and then the school got all this more money in 2021 with the reappraisal i cyber stocked this person so i i pulled the real estate records um this person had a huge increase in the fair market value of their house so their taxes did go up another
04716 the following year but if that individual's taxes went up 16 that other people's held the same other peoples went down um but this the school district got the same amount of money and that's house bill 920 that we talk about every time we're on the ballot right but i just want to reiterate this because this individual was out there on social media spreading this that hey we got whatever what seven million dollars then we got more money in 2021. we did not we got the same amount of money so i just want to reiterate that that we're not every time your market value of your house changes the school does not get one month and that's going to be the same with this bond issuance sometimes your payments might go up sometimes your payments
048might go down it's going to fluctuate based on the fair market value of the house i have a question too for you as far as lifespan of the building so let's say we construct new facilities what's a lifespan average before major renovations yeah i've been in some days typically the you know working with the state all the time and just from my perspective the goal is that 50 to 75 year mark um you know but just like a new car there's very little maintenance you have to do up front within but as the years go on you will have to do those those maintenance items um you know and that's another big thing um with most districts and then we talked about it a little bit um right now you got six buildings that you're
049trying to maintain and you know you're in that point where the life cycle of those buildings are two-thirds beyond its life and there's a lot of things that are happening and breaking and so forth so as you go through this potential building project you're going to see those costs you know not becoming the next so um but you do have to plan for the future i mean just like anything else um you know there are going to be repairs that are going to happen you know 10 to 15 years down the road once the buildings and that's i mean the reason i asked i recently was in lead on a tour um and and of course the renovations there were done when i was there back in 2001 um and there's major landing in the
050gym facility so i mean obviously seeing that only roughly 20 years old it's shocking to see that happen but of course i think we have to ensure that the future we can pay with those repairs you understand what you say in some buildings being over i personally work at a building including rain inside any other comments or discussion from the board matt i hate to keep our own questions out here in the hot seats how the bond is 37 here is that that's the calculation that we'd have to work out with our bond council depending on what type of equipment furniture fixtures those type of things that built into that the max we could do would be a 40 year but then once you start that that's if you're just doing strictly building improvements or
051new construction but once you start building in furniture pictures and equipment that have a shorter lifespan that brings down the maturity that you're legally allowed to do so we're looking at probably we're at the max of 37 years at the max and then do we in the future would we have to look at for instance like a vi levy to supplement the bunnies to repair for instance yeah i mean it's hard to say that far down the road a lot of things can change in 25 years or whatever the case may be but um it's definitely a real issue at that time when things start breaking at that magnitude you have some kind of resources for historical purposes our general fund has covered that we've been funding that for the last 11 years yeah a
052perfect world i mean again everybody's heard i'll say this we're the only district in the county without a pi fund we're fortunate that we have some mgm money coming in that we're able to put into a pi account in a perfect world we would have a small pi levy that would be renewed every five years or so that would take care of those small repairs for that would build a build a reserve so when we needed to buy a new boiler it was all there that's in a perfect world and right now we have mgm money in our pi phone though i'm just thinking about cost levels so these are all probably 94 96 efficient buildings so then we're not talking running the old boiler systems the you know water you know the way water
053is moving through the building and all of that i mean we could anticipate and that might seem small on the grand scale of things but every dollar counts so we would be looking at more issues typically the schools that we design today a lot of them have to be very sustainable um we're typically designing anywhere from 25 to 30 percent more efficient than what the ohio allows us to set us up however i mean i i would fully expect that if we build new buildings it'll be fully air conditioned i'm sitting here sweating right now so i would imagine that i mean i would imagine the electric might go and we'd only have three buildings as opposed to six but there's certainly a cost of running air conditioning units just out of curiosity too if
054you folks built facilities in other counties in ohio what counties would those be yes so we just included college city schools um in 2016 they had a bond issue they ended up going to new elementary and middle school um completed lake local schools down in hartsville they did a new elementary renovated in elementary and created a 7-12 high uh school just literally completed um indian greek school district down in the steubenville area they just had their dedication for their new high school last week i had to attend but they did a new elementary renovated uh another elementary school and school and currently right now we are breaking ground on two elementaries for north kansas city schools um they just got their third project underway this past year and dom's not going to like me saying
055this but the fact is is we only have soul harris day under contract through the bond and at that point and we're very very happy with the work they've been doing but this board would be able to go out for bids to select a new post bond architect if it was interested in doing that i think also something to think about when we beyond buildings but start to think about the curricular aspect of the work that's done daily um in our buildings when you're pulling your grade bands together and particularly in our three elementaries you're bringing the best that they all three have and you're you're pulling it together and you have less waste you have stronger continuity across the grade levels with all students across the entire district stronger continuity and the amount of
056waste that you can minimize that i think and then even when you're doing your professional development if you need to do something with a specific great band um or group they're there you've got everyone you don't have to wait for anyone to drive across town to get there to start students kids are gone you can pull in and have your meeting or whatever it is you need to do the efficiency of that we're talking monetarily higher efficiency buildings but also the efficiency with the way the schools can operate internally i think is an important thing to know as well anybody else i think i think it's really important that you had this discussion i think it was a good discussion um you know there's a lot to think about um and so we'll continue to
057move forward thanks dom for being here and i would just rehash obviously the next steps for you as a board to think about that we have to solidify if you're going to move forward is that obviously the amount we have to know that to be able to import resolutions we have to know the purpose of what we're doing that those constructions more obviously and then maturity of the bonds and um also the lifeboats sorry and also the estimated interest rate and those those last two items we would obviously work with our bot council municipal advisor to kind of evaluate what interest rates would be a projection what can we initiate so we have come to the point of that meeting where we have our open forum although the public has the right to attend working
058home to attend board meetings it has no inherent right to participate in the deliberations of the board without its consent speakers may offer such objective criticisms of the school board operations and programs as concerned them but in public session the board has the right to request that complaints about school personnel or against any person connected to the school system be directed to the appropriate administrator the board asks anyone wishing to participate in open forum to please well it should have already um signed to the log this evening and you'll be called um we'll just go in order as they're written does that sound good and then also so everyone knows we have a clock so everybody knows you'll have five minutes and be able to see kind of where you are without having to be
059interrupted so if we can stick to our five minutes that would be i'm greatly appreciated and before mad calls i'd just like to remind everybody the board did change policy last month so that people do need to request in advance up until the moment the role is called and anybody in the future wishing to speak at a board meeting you can come to the board meeting and sign up before it starts or you could also go to our website under the board is click on the first icon there and down on the right register to speak at the board meeting and there's actually several links they all take you to the same place where you can click and fill out a form saying your name matt will get a alert right away and he'll have
060you prepared for the next four weeks so again you can come and sign up before the core meeting here or you could do it online at our website okay so the first one on the docket is mr michael esposito [Music] all right good evening uh jason amy now that you get to see how the sausage is being made i hope you uh you find yourselves uh thinking that we're in good hands because i certainly think we do um my way background some of you have heard me speak before i do public sector at the state of ohio this is something i'm intimately involved with i spent the better part of the last week arguing with people about artwork funds and one-time monies and why you cannot just spend spend spend based off stuff that has
061given you one time um and what my clients what i hope we're going to be talking about doing is investing in long-term things uh playing the long game and not selling ourselves short i thought it was an excellent analogy about maintenance and empowerment at some point we need to reinvest in something alternatively as we talk about things in the state of ohio i was extremely disappointed recently to hear that the state of ohio has done yet and again another punch to the gut in school districts we've been in constitutional funding systems for decades based on property taxes uh you know thank god we got mgm settlement last year because after the recent legislation where they made it harder for school districts to actually challenge valuations um thank the governor for that and parties who are
062doing it it's just going to continue to get pushed down to us that doesn't mean we have to take it and i hope we don't but you know as i've talked about things i grew up in a glacier in falls we never met 11 we didn't pass when i became part of this community i loved the diversity of it and its up and coming nature when i was in that area areas like twinsburg and aurora we're not what they are today and some people have chided me for comparing us now to where they were then and we're an up-and-coming community um i love living in a place that is committed to excellence committed to public services police fire school districts the infrastructure when we passed the last levy i was thrilled because we had the
063opportunity to you know you can go one way where you don't provide funding in your services or you can go the other way continue to be a desirable community and we chose a ladder becoming a desirable community and i think this is the next evolution of that from what i've seen about the steering committee of a lot of people who put a lot of time and effort into this not people who just want to spend money frivolously but they went through they analyzed things and they produced a recommendation that i think i would hope this board takes very seriously as you have more than a thousand people uh communicating in this and coming up with the best way forward i appreciate the uh you know the questions from matt i appreciate the points you make
064uh superintendent clark about labor cost and things like that i often i tell people uh you know there are only so many seats around the table when you want to have a piece of pie pie's not getting bigger you don't have as many seats and that doesn't mean people have to lose their jobs but there are ways to do things more efficiently and there are way things that we can do the ways that we can set up our services and our service delivery so that we can deliver excellent services maybe without as many people there but everybody gets what they want at the end just so happens that sometimes you get a little bigger piece of pie too at the same time the public still wins because they're getting an excellent service and we're investing
065but it's critical that we take the step forward now and move forward i also invented i think in those meetings i talked about when sacramento hills originally was going out for its fire living you know they tried to say it was going to be cheap it wasn't going to be cheaper it'll never be cheaper because the cost of pension and labor cost is 24.5 for firemen pers was about 10. but in hindsight i was very concerned about that and looking at what we're getting in saginaw hills with that cooperative district that chief ripley runs and macedonia and everybody together pulling together to deliver services i i'm thrilled i was wrong because the services we get are outstanding with that collaborative approach and i know you know we're going to have a levy on to deal
066with that in sagamore hills but we shouldn't shy away from it we should continue to invest in this community and i hope everybody who may be cautious maybe uh you know i get it money's tight for everybody i hope you realize that in the long term the benefits you get from investing in this community you will reap in home values and the types of kids that are brought up in this community and the growth that we have as a tremendous diverse community moving forward so thank you very much about 15 seconds okay next up is miss karen byers hello i'm karen byers and i represent building boosters i've never done those we support the buildings with a lot of different things that they can't get any other way they come to me and we support
067them um i'm also supporting ptsa at the high school and positively in rebellion and i'm here to talk about visionaries visionaries are rarely seen as visionaries when they're acting on their visions it isn't until time has passed and the dust has settled that others can see what the visionary saw and acted upon and we just went through a very good discussion and i really thank you for having it before the open forum because i think that was very um respectful of everybody that's here so they can take the opportunity to give you their opinion hearing yours um you discuss it very important and the vision for the future of our new journey of schools is what you discuss but really the continuation of the vision of your joining schools because that vision was started by
068the previous board with the portrait of a night which was started almost four years ago and i served on the curriculum council and there's a few other people here that served on that that worked for two years we met eight nine times to define what we want the students to look like when they graduate um you will and you have heard reasons why we should move forward uh inflation rising we just can't afford it at this time my favorite is if the schools were good enough for my generation then they're good enough for now they don't need anything any better than i had um i feel like these responses lack vision prices will most likely never go down how many fountains i'm telling you they're not going down there's not going to be any sale
069on construction materials either like we can go to polls we can't get sale on construction materials as people get older and they move through their lives they change where they work and they change where they live to better themselves it's time for the students of nordonia to have a place where they can also better themselves my daughter can tell you every bathroom and lee eaton that floods from all the toilets and every bathroom in the high school and what days they're closed because of the rain and the sewer and the sewage that comes through them so it hasn't gotten any better from one school to the other the students deserve a place to learn and grow in the ways that they will we will prepare them for the future the future that we will hand
070over to them do we want our children and grandchildren to be given the tools to take good care of us and the world as they grow up do you realize they're the ones that will be the future leaders our leaders and how trained do you want those students as adults to be when you walk into a doctor's office and they're the ones who are treating for your future needs that's really the question we should be asking ourselves because we're training the students who are going to be the adults taking care of us when we hope to be really old new facilities are the next step in taking this vision of noradonia students and the portrait of the night forward it's a very very big step but you have set the plan and you keep working
071to move it forward you allowed a committee of 31 community members six months to work and flesh out a recommendation with the community's input you have both purchased and accepted as donations available pieces of land that could be very useful for new facilities this brings us to all the discussions we have tonight so you have the opportunity to show you our visionaries for the school district you can continue to move it forward where can this school district be in 5 years 10 years and 15 years what types of students can this district be graduating and what future can we show them it's now up to you thank you [Music] next up is miss becky growl notes as well i just had a couple of basic points i was only staring for committee my name is
072becky grow my husband and i have lived in macedonia for 30 years just over 30 years and sent our kids to both st barnabas and nordonia high schools and it was a terrific experience and with that we are all very excited at just the mere prospect of new schools and the investment that we have at our fingertips the potential for it and a number of these points that i have on here have already been hit on definitely the long-term investment in our communities one thing that wasn't touched on and i knew that might this might not be the exact forum but not just for our students and not just for our personal kids but our collective kids children's futures and our community and the investment in the schools and what that brings in in terms
073of economic growth in terms of businesses coming in in terms of families coming in and uh just again creating a broader stronger tax base that is capable of giving back more to the community and reinvesting so investment in the schools is investment in the community and we have always felt that way um throughout so just finally wrapping it up again just a quick positive exciting note i'm not the most exciting speaker but i am so excited for the prospect and for us as a community to have something as a community to bring us together and work towards to say we did this we got these schools together and we are all going to benefit from it in one way or another so that is it our kids our future next up miss janet strange [Music]
074hello i was just staying back there i don't have anything to add really now because um we moved here as a family in 1985 i've always supported every lobby i am super excited that we meet at new schools i grew up i went to akron public schools and i was just down there today and driving past like woodridge and even a school on in north hill and i'm like we don't even have that here i mean a 100 year old school that's not good and i didn't even know about the foundation but one thing i i've heard some concern about like the older people in our community and since i'm one of them now i'm retired a lot of my friends that are retired aren't going to vote for this so i know they think
075it's just people with children in the school bank now there's a lot of people my age out there that want this to happen so i'm hoping it doesn't all right next up kate uh miss katie strange gerlock hello my name is katie um and i kind of wanted to talk um as a parent in the district and just let you know that as you may assume a lot of us are here in support of placing the facilities bond issue on the ballot i was part of the steering committee so the 30 plus community members we were able to come together and work on plans and proposals through the facilities and i think it makes sense to take that next step and allow voters the chance to give their input on this topic by casting that
076vote locally in november and i think it gives people time to do their research and see how that's going to affect them as a family before they make that decision we know that the the independent analysis ofcc like was mentioned before we're at that two-thirds mark and it's most cost effective to replace these buildings rather than put more money into them currently and that's what we've been told by you know the experts that have done this and i think it's important that we that we keep that advice um and this was recommended even in today's market with the elevated supply costs and the inventory issues and i know that it was taken into account when developing budgets um and even um demoing some of the buildings or in in the proposal that ends up being
077what needs to happen so that you know that's already in the budget they're not going to come back and ask for money for that later and like people have said we can't predict with certainty that these costs will come back down and replacing these facilities is a process that takes several years waiting will significantly delay our students gaining access to safer and more efficient buildings and programming and i am an alumni of nerdonia and i was kind of surprised to learn that there are some programming options that i had that are no longer available and to me that seems backwards you would think that you know kids are getting more opportunities and options and something like languages you know in middle school i had choices where there's seems like limited more limited choices now than
078what i had and um if we can reduce the buildings then we have access to programming for lower grade levels to access the higher grade level instructors and teachers and staff members so that just opens up you know more options for our kids at earlier ages i think we have amazing teachers and staff and i think they deserve to work in better conditions i think we all like someone to mention we change jobs based on our happiness and our job satisfaction and we want to keep our you know high caliber teachers and we don't want them leaving for districts that have nicer facilities um and you know why would you blame them at some point if we're talking about some of the issues that we have so um another point that i appreciated tonight was
079and and want to kind of remind people of are those other bond issues that are falling off in the future that i don't know the exact math but looking at it like you know the example home values that were given on by the by the facilities committee meetings it almost seems that it's going to even out at some point where when those when those monies start to fall off guests will pay more in taxes now but we're going to get that break in a few years to help offset that um because i know the finances is a big concern um and that's all i have for now thanks for your time finally mr doug masteller [Music] i'm probably going to repeat a lot of things that have already been said so i apologize in advance
080for that my name is doug masteller uh resident of lorena since 1995. i've been involved in the schools for probably 20 plus years in one way or another i'm the proud parent of three northern graduates last week graduated from 2017 all of them out in the world making their way doing very well one on the verge of doing that so got nothing but great things to say about the education that i'm going to provide to them the opportunities they provided to them i was involved with the facilities commission as well and i think you know part of the reason i decided to get involved with is because i want to represent you know people that don't have direct skin pain um you know there's a lot of parents that clearly want to have the best
081for their kids but what about you know those parents or former parents of students that are now out there that still have to pay taxes but aren't seeing a direct benefit in their schools and you know my perspective on that is that you know someone did this for me you know someone out in the community 20 years ago when my kids were coming up you know they made sacrifices or they paid taxes that ended up benefiting my kids and so in some ways it's my turn um you know i talked about my three kids that went through schools they all had unique experiences they're all very different kids they're all great in their own ways but if you think about the classes that they took and the experiences they have it was it was across
082the whole spectrum they were involved in sports music they were science olympiad they took ap classes and they took the most basic classes you could take um the point is though that you know logoning was able to offer all that to them now he didn't have the opportunity to take robotics i watched that presentation earlier today that's fantastic what what's that going to be 10 years probably something we can't even imagine you know so we need to be in a position to support that and maybe see around the corner a little bit and provide environments that are flexible enough to support whatever is coming around the public or whatever's going on you know i think probably you've all read recently about the big investment that intel is making in the columbus area 20 billion a
083microchip factory incredible that's a great thing for the state of ohio and i don't think there's a long list of reasons why they picked ohio i guarantee they wouldn't have picked ohio if ohio wasn't committed to education and the area that they're in didn't have the resources of the future employees that know what they're doing that are well educated and they can contribute to their success at any time so you know what's going on here what we're doing well i feel like we're in a similar position now intel is a unicorn right but we need to invest in our community for it to survive to thrive you've heard that a couple of times today but i really believe that's true that doesn't mean intel that means that we have students and graduates who can go
084out in the world and do all kinds of things that you didn't even think of when you were in school and 15 20 years ago a lot more than that for me um i know the thing that we've heard a couple times is that it's not a good time you know to invest in the future um that's not the big they're saying it right they're saying it's not a good time to spend money because it's expensive and costs are high but you you've heard the same comment a couple times costs aren't going down and if we don't do it now when are we going to do it we need to take advantage of this as soon as we can because we're going to have operational savings because we're going to have safety issues that need
085to address sooner rather than later and because most importantly we need to invest in our kids we need to invest in the community and the best way to do that is to give the community the opportunity to vote on yourself so thanks for listening and um all right so we're going to move on to committee reports [Music] you want to start down here yes so i want to make it my business um every meeting to share with you the progress of the nbeic which is our nordonia diversity equity and inclusion council and i hope can i run everybody all right well um when we look at it was mentioned actually uh and last meeting that we were extremely excited about the work that the diversity council has done and even how it has broadened its
086reach and we are glad to announce again uh that we are going to host morgonia's first disabilities week and i think that is amazing that will be uh during the week of may 9th through the 13th on monday there will be a discussion about disability etiquette on tuesday uh awareness and understanding of down syndrome wednesday learning learning about just the variation in learning disabilities on thursday kind there will be a kindness campaign uh where there will be uh some embedded incentive for uh expressing and being intentional about being kind and then friday understanding awareness about autism i also wanted to share with that that there is now our grassroots group of students who are now participating in both the high school and the middle school diversity group which is committed and led by our staff
087and community partners um with the focus of making sure that we keep our district together with that being said i was so excited to hear about this initiative they're saying they're going to make kindness contagious and i think right now in the world as we are recovering socially in our interaction because it's not only the kids that suffer during this pandemic as we talk about coming back to this environment being around each other i think if we were very just transparent about how adults had to learn how to interact again and maybe getting away from our screens but putting more time back into being intentional about kindness and so i can't wait to hear about how we're going to make kindness contagious here in our school district uh lastly just wanted to tell you guys
088stay tuned uh the equity inclusion council as a whole when you talk about diversity there's still that push to make sure that we have staff members who are representative of the diversity that we are seeing emerging in our district and so just know that that's still a priority and i'm looking forward to the work that the team is going to do to make that a reality here and not only just to get them to come here but retention is important as well and so that next piece is how do we make this a welcoming and inviting place to work and live for everyone that's a part of our community that's all i got hello just briefly uh several weeks ago i had attended a kindergarten curriculum meeting which was very fitting because of course my
089daughter will be starting next fall and i learned a lot about the pilot programs the kindergarten classes are doing they're very interesting and they really put students first and i was encouraged to see that and the dedication of the kindergarten teachers was absolutely phenomenal so my hands off to them and all the work they're doing i look forward to learning more about it next fall as well so that's it for me okay two um two committee reports actually one was uh from the nordonia schools foundation we met on april 13th and our guest speaker was science teacher erin coleman from nordonian high school and she was talking about the upcoming event that just happened this past week dna day which i got to attend and i thought was super cool the kids really seemed to
090get excited over that they had to compete in different they got to make different foods and have a contest during the lunch blocks there were different things going on with that there's photo booths and everything else but i i was really impressed with the guest speakers that came in to talk to everyone about different various science careers one of them was somebody who worked for the girl rural of criminal investigation another person was a genetic counselor so that was more on the medical side of things but i just think it is so great when we have opportunities to show our kids different science careers i mean i left there wanting to have a science career so it was really great and again um thanks to the nordonia schools foundation to uh for their very generous
091donation towards that um the other committee i wanted to talk about was the finance committee um and my announcement for that is that the board of education is seeking applicants for the district's finance activities communications team so fact fact the facts committee will be a committee of the board of education who will comprise six community members two board members and the district treasurer the mission of the fact committee will serve as a liaison between the board and the community and it will provide objective perspectives on various school finance topics while working directly with two board committee members the application window will be open until this is right this campaign it says april 18th okay uh the board of education will review all applications and make appointments at their may 23rd uh board meeting if you
092have specific questions concerning the application process or the committee please contact either the district treasurer matt brown or the board president liz mckinnon the application can be found on the rhodonia schools website if you just scroll down under latest news it's the very first thing that's right there um so it's very accessible you do not necessarily need to have any kind of career in finance or anything part an interest in learning more about how our district and schools are are run in finance and that's it for my reports the first thing i have is the cbcc report um from mr verost and he addresses mr brown dr clark and the entire board on friday april 8 cbcc held the annual deca competition deca deca is the youth organization for students enrolled in the sales and
093service fundamentals the organization prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing finance hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe deca's challenges provide members opportunities to demonstrate the knowledge and skills learned in the classroom through innovative challenges in partnership with several corporate partners the school of nursing at cuyahoga valley career center held an information night on tuesday april 12th attendees were able to make the super um meet to the supervisor patti mandela and staff who highlighted the program's requirements curriculum student clinical and classroom expectations and more additionally erin farnsworth from cvcc's student support services presented information on the financial aid process contact the career center for information on cbc's practical nursing program this past month our high school education professions students were studying exceptionalities and went to the cleveland site center the csc
094to learn more the site center provided a mini in service to the students in dealing with visual impairment the researching learning challenges topic was visual the topic was visual impairment so the students were really able to add great depth to their paper and presentation finally the next regular voe board of education meeting will be this thursday april 28th at 7 pm at the career center and that concludes his report and he says thank you um and in other pieces of information for legislative um the big thing that the governor signed into law was house bill 126 and um mr esposito you touched on this this evening um when you were you were speaking um house bill 126 modifies the board of revision process by doing the following it prohibits board of education from filing residential
095and agricultural complaints it permits the board permitting board of educations to file commercial complaints only when the property was sold in the year before the tax year for which the complaint was filed and the sale price was at least ten percent and five hundred thousand dollars more than the auditor's value um and then it bans private pay settlement agreements entered into after the effective date of the legislation so um it's a very um hand-tying piece of legislation for public schools all across ohio um and then the curriculum review committee meeting that i attended our our cac headed by mr stewart um and it was a great presentation of pilots that are running currently at our element all of our elementary schools i'm focusing really heavily on phonics based on research that the district has been
096watching for meeting student needs and the research showed that the greatest need that our young learners have as they're learning to read was phonics and so that was that's the area they're honing in on within these programs so we're really excited to see how the outcomes of those go and the direction that the district decides to go in for those and that's what i've got all right let's move into the superintendent's recommendations item one i recommend you put the consent items listed emotion uh the first of these items is approving the student handbooks for next school year as we talked about there were no substantive changes to these handbooks it was just dates and names and then again our community is so generous they're always so thoughtful of the schools an anonymous donation of five
097hundred dollars to nordonia middle school track for the purpose of purchasing shoes for our kids in need office max donated various school supplies and hand sanitizer to the value of 7 500. st timothy's episcopal church is donating 321 to provide assistance to the family support specialist program and faith fellowship church donated 120 to the nordonia crom outreach great do you have any questions mr kearney yes mr larimer yes mrs mckinley yes mr tidmor yes respondents yes or she cares item two is a recommendation to approve an addendum to the administrator's contracts um regarding juneteenth home motion i'll say juneteenth became a federal holiday last year the governor signed into law that it is a requirement for school districts to celebrate that and our administrators who work year-round because their contract does not include that we're
098modifying those contracts uh to give them juneteen as a paid holiday just out of curiosity this is state law but if we voted no yeah i don't know to be honest with you a lot of things that you know you vote on are just stay long i was having this conversation with my wife and daughter i don't know what happened you anger a bunch of administrators mr kearney yes mr larimer yes this is mckinley yes mr tidmor yes miss biology yes coaching cares item three is the recommendation to approve an mou with oopsy this is also for juneteenth for our year-round opsi employees and again so these are mostly custodians and maintenance workers there may be a secretary or two that works year-round any questions all right mr kearney yes mr larimer yes this is
099mckinley yes mr tidmore yes ms bondage yes item four is the recommendation approve the contracts with the summit education circuit center can i get a motion second this is an annual contract we purchase a lot of services from the summit esc including our gifted services some physical therapy occupational therapy school psychologist the next one is occupational therapy yeah those kinds of things that we get through the esc is a better rate than employ those folks ourselves any questions mr brown mr kearney yes mr larmer yes this is mckinley yes mr tidmor yes ms bondage yes motion carries item 5 is a recommendation to approve the contracts for the pupil services department so these are physical therapy occupational therapy and also the leap program which is a program that takes students with pretty significant behavioral issues
100we buy spots to put those kids in we try to do it as infrequently as possible any questions mr kearney yes mr larimer yes mrs mckinley yes mr tidmore yes mr spanish yes mr curious m6 is a recommendation to accrue the student academic consumable fees for nordonia high school for next year as i mentioned in our board update we charge the exact amount that we are charged by these companies and what you will what you will see typically happens you'll adopt these today and then we'll probably have several changes as prices change but we like to get these published so kids can start paying their fees mr kearney yes mr larmer yes mrs mckinley yes mr tim yes miss manage yes item seven is a recommendation you approve the personnel items listed a few things
101in this agenda that i want to point out first of all sarah paris high school math teacher who's been with us so long has decided to change careers and we wish her the absolute best she is a complete rock star and i think you could fairly say that this is one of those that you read about where kobet i think has worn people down and people are making career changes and i i think that's the case sarah is fantastic and we wish you are the best you'll see that we are starting to hire some new teachers i'm excited about these folks and there will be an august board meeting in which we will invite all of the new teachers so you get to meet them in person kyle fenn is a family consumer science teacher
102who is a nordonia graduate we're excited about that danielle miller will be teaching art here at northfield tyler stern we are stealing from saint barnabas he's been there for five years we're excited about that and joe zephyr is a new high school intervention specialist who we are stealing from haynesville the rest of the the things in this personnel agenda are just typical kinds of things any questions no interesting to note article i read just this past week well we've been last week and today's monday um is an article about in the next two years 40 of teachers are looking at either retiring or leaving the profession 40 percent and it makes you question who's going to be staying in classrooms so um it's very relevant in our current day and age mr brown mr kearney
103yes mr larimer yes this is mckinley yes mr tidmor yes miss valence yes motion carries item eight is a recommendation to approve re-employment of these certified staff members saw motion so these are all of our teachers who do not have tenure they do not have continuing contracts you approve them for a one-year contract annually any questions mr kearney yes mr larimer yes mrs mckinley yes mr tidmor yes miss bondage yes item nine is a recommendation that you approved the new uh continuing contracts effective at the beginning of next school year so these are the folks who do qualify for tenure and they've all been recommended by their principals any questions congratulations to yes mr brown mr kearney yes mr larimer yes mrs mckinnon yes mr tidmor yes miss bodage yes pushing cares and item 10
104is a recommendation that you approve the non-renewal of the following staff members so these are home instruction tutors and substitutes we non-renew them to take them off our rolls and then tomorrow they'll get a letter in the mail asking if they'd like to return to work next year to keep them from getting unemployment over the summer and so starting next month you'll start rehiring a bunch of these folks for next school year any questions mr kearney yes mr larimer yes this is mckinley yes mr tidmor yes ms manage cares and that concludes my report mr brown okay thank you madam president members of the board first item on the docket is to approve a consent the consent items and i recommend for approval so we are approving the special board meeting minutes from march 8th
10514th 21st and 24th of 2022 as well as the regular board meeting minutes from march 21st 2022 and the financial statements from march 2022 i will give a brief overview of our finances for the month of march and keep in mind too i've made this point a couple times but these financials are posted to our district website i know it's kind of hard to see them up on that screen so if anyone wants to dive into them a little deeper they are available and i wanted to point that out so for the month of march our total receipts are year-to-date are for just over 49.1 million dollars and compare that to prior year through march of 44.1 million dollars so this is showing a 11.5 increase over prior year uh some of the main contributing
106factors to that currently our property tax and tangible personal property tax are are higher than last year now we won't have a clear picture until we receive our final settlement which will happen in april and at that point we will be able to make a full analytical review of of how what that looks like when you compare that to last year's collections the other area which i've touched on previously is our in our restricted state grants and aid that's showing a increase over last year the main purpose of that increase is due to the change in state funding uh the state added some new elements of to the restricted component of state funding specifically student wellness which historically we received but it was received in a special grant fund and now they have rolled that
107grant fund into the general fund so we still have to restrict the revenues but it's in the general fund now as opposed to previously and also a new funding they're increased funding to the gifted element of education so there's increased funding for gifted education and the budget bill that's driving those restricted restricted state dollars higher and then the next item on the revenue front that's driving that increase most importantly is in the all other revenues other local line items and that's showing 162 increase from prior year and what's driving that is the second installment from the mgm settlement was deposited into that general fund for now and then that gives the board the flexibility to determine how they would like to utilize those funds moving forward so that's a discussion the board can have in
108the future but we had we the money came in in march so we had to get it in onto our books until a future discussion is made on that so then over on the expenditure side year-to-date through march we're just under 38.8 million compared to last year at the same time of 38.2 million which is a 1.6 increase the big ticket items that are showing the increases are are in our supplies and materials and our capital outlay supplies materials mainly is attributed to classroom supplies last year there was fluctuations in what was happening with the school buildings and people being on site our students being on site and now obviously we've had the four years worth of kids in our school buildings so classroom supplies is going up as well as building supplies fuel which
109is currently higher percentage increase than we were seeing in the past and then on the capital outline outlay front we're showing an increase due to the completion of the interactive touch panels that a majority of them were funded through the esser funding however to complete the project we had to supplement that through the general fund so overall we're showing a 1.6 increase in expenditures so for our net income we're at a 10.3 million dollar net income compare that to last year at the same time of just under 6 million in that income and what that attributes to is our unencumbered unreserved fund balance of 21.3 million dollars through the end of march i'll take any questions if there are just a brief one man do we see any problems in revenue from new home construction
110for instance where we have a lot of new homes i'm assuming it's tax dollars yes so that will happen in the first year that it hits the tax rolls so depending on when those new constructions are done um in my forecast in may i'll give a full update on the evaluations and how the tax year 21 it's playing out for that new construction yep and then it rolls back because the hospital ranks from the end of the subsequent years so we'll never get more money increase from those other than the first year [Music] mr kearney yes mr larmer yes mrs mckinley yes mr tidmor yes responded yes mission carries the final item is a resolution to approve a service agreement plan connect i recommend for and just real quick on this one we currently utilize
111plan with ease.com as our third party administrator for the districts 403 b and 457 457b plans and to increase our customer service not only for the treasurer's department but also for our district staff i'm recommending that we change providers to plan any questions mr kearney yes mr larimer yes mrs mckinley yes mr tidmor yes ms bondage yes motion carries that concludes my report so that brings us to our time to adjourn um the next regular meeting of the board of education will be on monday may 23rd 2022 at 7 00 pm at northfield elementary school right here in this very room so um can i get a motion a second mr brown mr kearney yes mr armor yes mr mckinley yes mr tidmor yes respondents yes