001Well, >> good evening and welcome to this meeting for Monday, October 6, 2025. We're ready. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Green, >> here. >> Mr. Hayes, >> here. >> Mrs. McCarthy, >> here. Mrs. Saxon, >> here. >> Mr. Baka >> here. >> Finalization of the agenda. Is there anything to add or remove? >> The agenda is final presented. >> Thank you. We're ready to superintendent treasurer reports. >> Well, tonight is all about our treasurer for the most part. Panda who is going to present our financial forecast. >> Can you hear the trumpets? >> What? >> Can
002you hear the little bit of drool right here? >> Not yet. >> All right. Well, Keith over on this side. It's different, isn't it? Strange. >> All right. So, tonight I'm going to present the updated financial forecast or what we used to call the five-year forecast, but um now we're calling it a financial forecast. Normally, we would present this in November, but because of the legislative changes, we're now required to present in October. Um, even though it's only moved up a month, this earlier timing kind of slightly tweaks how we forecast our analysis and all whatnot. Um, typically we would have a whole extra month's worth of data to base our u projections off of. And doesn't seem like a whole lot, but if you think about October, we had student counts in there that
003would have been finalized when we present. So this uh forecast has a lot more estimates than we typically would have because of the earlings. Uh another change to the forecast is it's no longer required to be a 5-year forecast. The state is only requiring us to do a three-year forecast. Um but while they only require us to do a three-year, we will continue to do a five-year. And that is for several reasons. Um, mostly most deficits could be found in years four and five of a forecast. So, if we stop at three, we're really not capturing everything. And it also helps when we do multi-year contracts, negotiations, things of that nature, and we can project out, see how far it is. It helps us with levy timing, staffing decisions, and it also helps the the
004decisions that we make today, how it impacts us going farther out. All right. So, just going to give you a quick little refresher. Um, when we're talking about forecast, we're talking about general fund. General fund, you can compare that to like your checking account. That's where you pay pretty much the majority of your everyday operations from your utilities, your um babysitters, all that kinds of things. In our case, this is where we pay for um our salaries, our supplies, our utilities, everything that we need to operate on a daily basis. So, if you look at this slide, um we're looking at our cash balance. Our cash balance is uh money amount of money that is left in the bank. So we can think of this as like looking at this we can think of this
005as our beginning bank balance. So as July 1st the beginning of fiscal year we started with $24 million. Okay. And then we're projecting that by the end of the fiscal year we're going to end with $23 on the right hand side of the slide. Oops. Sorry. It's just the projecting how much in revenue and expenditures we're planning and anticipating to bring in and spend and then what have differences between the two. So we're looking to be on the good the good side of $2 million. Okay. So if we look at the revenue, this slide is based off of our revenue and we remember from the first page we were looking at about $61 million. This is how our revenue comes to us and how it's broken out. It's broken out by local share, state share,
006and other revenue. Our local share is 63% of our entire revenue comes from property taxes, right? Then the state share of our funding is about 30%. Um the state uses a wonky little calculation based off of per pupil to determine what we receive from local share what they decide they should give us to make up the difference. So um we're going to have about 12.6 million coming from the local fair school funding and about 5.6 6 of that state share is the reimbursement of property taxes or homestead or roll back. And then lastly, we've got about 7% coming in from other revenue. The other other revenue is things like kindergarten tuition, uh preschool payment and taxes and in um earnings on investments. And then this is how we're spending our money. As you can see,
007the big majority of what we spend our money on is personnel, salaries, and benefits. We're a people business, so it makes sense that we spend the biggest chunk of change on salary and benefits. Um, right now we're looking at 82% of our expenditures are for salary and benefits. And the average spend in other districts around our area is about 80 and 85. So we're kind of mid to lower. So we are pretty much right on par with everybody else, but slightly better. Um then our next area of uh spend is purchase services. We're spending about $7 million there. These are items like food service contracts, utilities, EST contracts, legal fees, life insurance or insuranceances and things of those natures, the things that we have to go out and have somebody help us with. And then
008our last portion is the smallest portion um which is about $3.6 million. Those are just small random things that make that up. Supplies, miscellaneous fees, um any kind of small repairs or maintenance that fall into a capital outlay project. So right now, if we looked at what we were bringing in and what we were spending, we're projecting to spend less than what we actually bring in. This slide's always a little deceiving because it looks like there's such huge differences in the revenue and the expenditure, but it's really not that big of a difference, but it looks ginormant about this graph. So, it always freaks me out a little bit. But, um, if we look at the little portion over on the left hand side, our revenue is the blue. Sorry, I can't see my glasses
009that far. The re the revenue is the blue and the expenditures are in the orange. So, right now, we're trending to continue to bring in slightly more than what we're spending, but as you look out in like years four and five, it's starting to catch up. And then over on the right hand side, we're looking at projected cash balances. Fairly steady all the way across up through the entire slide. Um just slight increases year-over-year, but then again in year four and five, we can see that it's kind of starting to level out. So, um, if we look, uh, we'll only be gaining about a million dollars in those last two years of the forecast, whereas in the first three years of the forecast, we can gain about $2 million. And then this is our cash
010on hand. um in 25. So year 25, you'll see kind of a large drop there. That drop is because we moved $6.5 million into our capital outlay. So we didn't lose it or not. It's just not included in the general fund. So remember, this is just all general fund money. So we moved it out of general fund. So it looks like there's a little bit of a dip there. But as you see, we steadily very slightly increased and it kind of tapers off. And in 2030, we are about 168 days of cash on hand, which is phenomenal for the most part. There are many districts that don't even have 90 days of cash on hand. So, we are still in a pretty good position. Our next slide is our student demographics. This is our enrollment.
011How many kids were enrolling through cheer? Um overall in the state of Ohio, I believe the fact is 10% drop in enrollment across the state of Ohio. Um ours did dip down a little bit from 24 to 25, but then you see it start to fine again. Um, so looking at that, we can look at that and there's really no need for any kind of drastic staffing changes or anything along those lines. We're still pretty even across there. This graph is our per pupil spending. Um, as far as other districts in LA County go, we're at the lower end of the middle range, but uh, we still are four out of five star rating. So even though we are spending less, we are still providing quality education to the children. Oh, and then just a
012quick mention other than the little faults there in 25 you just see that it slightly increases every year. That's basic inflationary every year. Everything goes up. Same thing with the cost of educating the child goes up every year regardless of what we do. And then lastly, here's our graph again to follow up with our student revenue costing us about $79 per student per day to educate the children. um 58% of that funding that we use comes from residential property taxes and then the other 42% is coming from the state and commercial or um industrial real estate. Um overall the average per people spend in Ohio in a 24 and 25 was $88. So we're still less not far less but still less but still again we're still making great being a four out of five
013star district. So what all of this means is that all the decisions that you guys as the board have been making along with the administrators show smart and responsible with all of our funding. We're in a pretty solid financial position right now, but it's important that we continue to keep an eye on it so that we can make good decisions in a time frame that we need to make. >> You go back to the screen that shows revenue versus expenses. Bar church. Yeah. Sorry. So in 2012 when we asked for new money and we promised this community that we would not come back for at least 10 years. We've now extended that out to 20 years. >> Yes. >> Explain to what Columbus is trying to do currently. >> Well, this does not have any
014of the Columbus pieces factored into it. um drastic changes based off of that. So we believe that we're we're not bothering the community for anything right now. >> So again, I know we have limited people in the community watching us right now, but we stand to lose to the 12 million minimal >> very lose the homestead roll back. That's another 6 million that's $18 million. >> Yeah. Right. >> So this metric changes very very quickly. >> It changes very quickly, very drastically >> and that helps the taxpayers out. >> It does not. >> I don't think so. >> There might be one time a year that they see a small rate and then that next year it will just it's just going to go right back up. And if we have to go out on
015a levy, the levy is going to cost us more >> cost them more. >> We'll have to put it on for more mills than we would if we were just to reading. and knowing that a large portion of our revenue stream was emergency levies in all reality being a growing community, their taxes have actually gone down year after year due to the growth. >> They have. So all of this hard work that's done been done in this district is at risk because somebody in another county has made decisions that their funding formula that was found unconstitutional 30 plus years ago they're going to fix it by just taking it away with no answer on how they're replacing that revenue stream. >> Correct. >> Other than taxpayers again in the same community. >> Well, sure. Okay.
016And then the other things that they're going to do is they're um they they want to increase sales tax to that's another thing I've heard. Well, who wants to pay 12% sales tax on local bread? Like it's they're going to pay it one way or the other. They're not made very smart decisions. Um Wendy, can you speak at all to and I I think this is a little bit about what Frank was just saying, but um in Columbus the legislators overrode the governor's veto of line item 66. And if I was reading that correctly, that gives and I could be completely wrong because there's so many things going on in Columbus right now. I was reading a legislative report that I get from OSBA today earlier and okay sidebar right so back to my question
017in a second but sidebar on that I was reading this legislative report and it's not just the education committee that you have to be concerned about when you're looking at legislation or upcoming um you know potential laws in Ohio it's under ways and means it's under like every category that you can think of there is something that affects public education in Ohio. So that was my sidebar. Back to my question um which is why I may be confused. Um veto of line item 66. The governor vetoed it. The legislature overrode the veto. That gives the county >> budget commission >> county Thank you. budget commission the ability to determine that a municipal or a school doesn't need that amount of tax and to re-evaluate that or is that a different >> I have I don't
018not so 66 basically was the override of districts and municipalities being able to put emergency substitute and replacement levies on a ballot and so because our only source of revenue outside of inside millage is coming from a substitute levy. This obviously for North Ridgeville is a very significant issue that will lead to a very significant deficit. Um, I know that our legislators that are local are working to find a fix for that piece because there are 23 or 24 I could be off slightly but 20 something districts in Ohio that carry a substitute levy which to your point earlier and talking moving forward if we were not able to renew that levy it would not be subject to 12 1.5% homestead enroll back, meaning that it would cost taxpayers an additional 12% just to keep
019us at our current funding levels, right? Which would in effect cost them far more money in the long run than if we were just able to renew. I think our team, our community, all of you have done an outstanding job advocating for those points and our legislators understand that they don't want to do something that is going to cost people more money. And I think it was a slight oversight, but there are lots of districts, hundreds of districts with emergency levies. And so um the idea is that they want all levies to be >> fixed some fixed some levies which by the way substitute an emergency car >> but we're talking about vernacular. So but that's what we need to do but we're able to have language that would allow us to use renewal language
020on a future ballot. We would not be in this current situation. But that is veto item 66 which now has been overrode both in the house and the senate. >> The budget commission is a totally different one that has not yet been addressed by the house. I believe Wednesday the other overrides will be addressed by the house and we have been assured that the senate will override all of those overrides that are sent to them from house which will include your budget commission. it will include your carryover balance um etc etc. >> So then it's going back to what it was that >> pretty much before the governor >> before the governor noted at all they're pretty much reversing everything that they have. Correct. >> Yeah. And if you have specific questions about those I'm
021happy to answer those or talk further as now I've become involved. So when will we see a forecast that um plugs in some of the whatifs from Columbus? >> So >> or the actuals from Columbus. So our software that we use to create the forecast uh they're working on doing building the things in the background so that we can go in and plug in our numbers. Okay. so that we can see what it truly looks like since they just voted on that on Wednesday, right? They had a temporary one that we all just used to say where we came up with our $12 million, but now they're working to make it more exact and precise so that we can see truly how much it truly does cost, how far out what it does in year
022two, three, four, five. >> Yeah. And to just I guess substantiate uh Miss Fanta's conversation is that it's all very unknown, right? So as of Wednesday, the law will go into effect in 90 days, which means at that point we'll have a better idea of what is actually going to impact us. But in those 90 days, there are Mr. Pratt, how many? 19 other bills out there that impact us financially. And so trying to understand which, you know, legislation moves through, which legislation is modified to help. And again, anybody watching, anybody here, you know, the more we can advocate on our behalf um to fix some of what is transpiring here is advantageous for us right now. So, if you've not yet reached out to those legislators, please make sure that you do. Um, I
023did hear from Gail Manning yesterday who spoke with one of the legislators out east who has uh actually been the main introducer of most of these property tax issues. She was able to share with him the impact specifically in North Bridgeville and assures me that within a day or two, meaning today or tomorrow, she is going to send language our way uh regarding legislation that will ultimately help. So, I'm waiting to see what that looks like and we'll report that to you ASAP. Thank you. Thank you. >> Miss Fans, knowing that it's we don't have a real bumper or do we go on the high end, can $12 million get worse for us? >> Wait. Yes. Wa. Absolutely. $12 million is just hospitality. >> Well, that's what I'm talking about. You said they gave you
024a formula and they're rebuilding it in the background. Can that $12 million? I know we got other issues. >> Yeah, it can fluctuate a little bit. a million dollars was an estimate of what we were using before based off of like what the levy brings in on. So it could it could tweak a little bit could go slightly higher but >> in the ballpark of $12 million >> and we would have to go back out on the ballot a lot sooner have to go back in try and make up that money. Whereas if that didn't happen, we wouldn't even have to consider it 20 >> 30. >> But I get a little bit of savings, 20 cents. >> Yes. >> That's awesome. >> Yes. I think I want to say one of the projections was
025like not even not even $500. >> The property tax from the schools have gone down every year for the last 20 years plus. It's we we are fortunate that we are in the place we are. There are a lot of districts that are not exactly sure how they're going to keep their doors open. >> It's sad. It's really sad. >> Thank you. >> Well, that was fun. Thank you. >> Thank you, Samantha. Uh next, Mr. is going to share with you some options for the next two years worth of scale affairs. >> Good evening. I hope that I've heard your times. [laughter] The superintendent said we do and have shared with you a couple of drafts for the 627 and the 272 school year calendars. Our hope is to get those approved actually in November
026so that we align with our policy. Um so just really high level on this. Um these schedules are very similar to what we've had in place this year and what we've had in place for the last year or two. So if you remember about two years back we compressed the school year a little bit. We lengthen our school days, took some days off. Um and this both of these calendars follow that similar model. So in both calendars 26 27 and 2728 could be looking starting students on the third Thursday in August and that's going to be significant here in just a minute. So on the 2627 calendar you're looking at your typical Labor Day as a day off in September and we've got some heat time built in that third week. That's very similar to
027what we have done this past year. In October, there's a day off um first full week of October and then a records day on the 23rd of October to ask for the end of the first quarter. So, if you have not looked at a school calendar recently, that's coming up really really soon. The uh end of the first quarter. A little change in November in both of these in that in the past couple of years, we have taken election day as either a PE day or as a day off because of the number of people in our buildings voting. Um they have actually changed polling locations so we don't have anybody polling at any of our buildings for the next two years. So those will go back to being student days. Uh that is in
028large part due to parking, construction, everything that goes along there. On December 26, we looking at a twoe holiday break in December. That gets shortened a little bit in December of 27 on the 27 28th calendar. It actually goes to an 8 day break instead of a 10. And again, the reason for that we'll talk about when we get to the end of this calendar. Um, January has the 8th off in 2627 calendar and January 3rd off as a records day um in the 2728 calendar. And what's beneficial about that is 2728 calendar accomplishes the goal that we've long set out to do, which is to end the second quarter, the first semester before the holiday. So that when students come back, they're starting actually with their second semester. that has long been a a
029full desire to high school. Um February, we'll have a PE day in both of those. We'll have President's Day in both of those. Uh fires will have spring break in the 2627 and 2728 calendar um either the very last week um of March um or the week before that depending on which calendar that you're looking at. Uh March and 28 also has an extra day that's kind of a floating day. We've done this in the past when we needed to. Uh March 20 or February 28 is actually a leap year. So there's an extra day built into the calendar, but we've put a date in there as a calamity makeup day. And the reason for that, again, I want to share with you their moment. Um a couple days off in April of 28th and
030then in May, what we're looking at for last days for students, the 26 27th school year is actually May 19th, which is a Wednesday. And then for the 2728, it's May 17th. And the reason we have shifted the schedule a little bit is the end of that calendar, the 2728 school year is the summer that we move into the new high school. So we have made a conscious effort to try to get that 2728 school year wrapped up as quickly as we can so that we can get movers in to get stuff shipped across the parking lot into our new facility. So um the goal when we get >> what's the end day again? 27 28 >> 27 28 last student day would be May 17th >> and staff would be May 18th. >> Okay.
031>> Um and then our goal would be when we look at 2829 calendar which would happen next school year and we would look to start that year as late as we possibly can to provide as much time as we can have for that. So um I know that's a lot of information but we have long set out to have two years worth of calendars done. I got to tip my hat to the calendar committee uh who's made up of both administration and uh members from both associations. I think we put together a pretty pretty strong kind of calendars here consideration. So there any questions in general? >> Well you said uh last day for the 27 28 year was May 17th. >> Yes. >> It's yes and May 19th for the 267. >> Correct. So,
032in what year did you say? Is it 2627 that we are um ending our semester before the holidays? >> 2728. >> 278 student. Yep. >> Okay. >> And that's because we've been able to take a couple of days off that holiday break, that winter break. >> Yeah. I think that's fantastic. I love that the students can end that have a break and come back and start fresh. Um how do you think that'll be impacted when for 28 29? Um I would assume that the major holidays in that cases are in those cases are going to go to Sundays. So again, anytime you have a weekend holiday, you do have the ability to have a couple of days at the beginning of those weeks. >> Uh so that should benefit us as well. >> Okay. >>
033Great. Thank you. >> Awesome. We will see you sometime in the back. >> Thank you, Mr. Grant. That concludes the superintendent treasur. >> Thank you. announcements of the evening, Miss McCarthy. >> Yeah. So, as Mr. Pitch just mentioned, the two proposed calendars will be on the November board of education meeting agendas to allow for that month of um I think it's like has to be public for a month before we vote on it. That kind of thing. Um also, Joanna Tamira um submitted her resignation as our JVS school board member. Um, so we will need to have a conversation about that at some point and probably at our very next meeting um, nominate and elect somebody to be our JVS board rep for the remainder of this year because her term was to expire um,
034December 31st of 25. So, for really by the time that we get to that point, it would be in November and December. And then in January, we will appoint the JVS rep for a three-year term. Um, starting in January, the JVS board, if you're interested um in being our rep for the JVS board, they meet one Thursday a month um in their next meetings, we're going to miss the October one, that's October 16th. Um the next two meetings would be November 20th and December 11th. They mean at 6 PM um at JBS. So uh we'll have that conversation at our next meeting, right, Mr. Rea? >> Yes. >> And um if you're interested, please say so [clears throat] that we can do a nomination and a appointment. Are we um submitting any applications for community
035members? >> And if um if we don't have somebody who is interested in serving, we would need to. >> Okay. >> I would think that for this last two months, somebody one of us could do that, >> right? >> But if going on in the future, if that's not something that >> a member of this board wants to entertain, then we would have to submit or we would have to collect applications. Yeah. Okay. And >> I know one of the reasons the mayor decided to resign early is they're getting ready to embark in some changes out there. And she thought it might be beneficial for whoever does take up that role to be a part of those conversations right from the onset instead of stepping into conversation that's two or three months old. So that's
036something else to consider. >> Excellent announcements. I have >> Thank you. Um, normally this is hearing of the public, but there is nobody in attendance this evening other than ourselves. So, we'll move right into the education report. >> Saxon, >> uh, we have a few items for your consideration. Under the education report, we have three field trips. The first one is an international service trip to Costa Rica during the summer of 2026. Next is supervised overnight field trip for the NRHS cheer team to travel to Walt Disney, Florida for the purpose of attending UCA Shear Competition from February 5th, 2026 through February 9th, 2026. Finally, a supervised overnight trip for the North Ridgeville High School American Sign Language classes to Washington DC and Galad Galette. >> Oh, thank you. Galidet University for a college visit
037scheduled for March 11th through 13, 2026. This is the first reading for these items. The second reading and consideration for the approval will be at the October 21st regular meeting. >> Thank you, Mr. McCarthy. Policy report. >> This is the first reading of a new and revised set of policies hosted by Miola. Committee has reviewed and made edits to the policies listed below. The second reading and consideration for approval will be October 21st at our regular meeting. I did want to make mention of the very last policy that's listed 8500. Um there I feel like it needs a little bit more work. Um it's we can vote on the changes that have already been made, but I I'd like the policy committee to look at that one again in terms of um specifically around what
038children get when they're negative in their balance um for food services and how that's handled and what can be provided. So, that one needs a little bit more work, but I I feel like we've made some edits to it that are um moving in the right direction. >> Communication report. >> Thank you. >> It is recommended that the board of education accept the following gifts with appreciation. There's an anonymous donation of $5,000 to support the district's AI subscription purchases. And towards the Writers on the Ridge program, the North Ridgeville non-eing education associated gave $180 in gift card. The Rotary Club of North Vidville also donated $180 in gift cards. The BFW Post 9871 gave $2,000 for prizes. IWI Incorporated and Planet Fitness both donate $250 towards the Monster Dash. And the Li Liberty PTO gave
039$2787.20 for staff appreciation. The athletic boosters donated $4,000 towards the women's basketball, $2,000 for the golf team for time at Sportsville, $3,000 for the Kipper website access for the coach and ad use, and $6,258 for senior banners. As always, we thank our committee for the tremendous support of our schools and students. >> Thank you. Human resources report, Mr. Haynes. Thank you. >> Uh we have a number of items in the human resources report. One certified staff leap replacement contract. Two support staff appointments. Five support staff substitute contracts. Three NREA supplemental contracts. Two non NRTA supplemental contracts. One certified staff adjustment. One certified staff leave of absence. Three support staff leave of absence. Two certified staff resignations. Four support staff resignations. This is the first reading of these items. Second reading and consideration for approval will
040be on October 21st regular meeting this resource report. >> Thank you. We have the finance report. >> Thank you, Mr. Raka. The only item for consideration under the finance report this evening is the October 2025 financial forecast as presented by Mrs. An. I move to approve the item in one reading. >> Second. Moved by M. McCarthy, second by Mr. Haynes. Is there any discussion? >> Miss, can you tell us when is our next update? I know they switched the schedule around. >> Uh, it will be in February. February. Thank you. >> Roll call, please. >> Mrs. McCarthy? >> Yes. >> Mr. Haynes? >> Yes. >> Mr. Griggsby? >> Yes. >> Mr. Saxon? >> Yes. >> Mr. Vaka? >> Yes. It's recommended the board of education enter into executive session to respect the appointment, employment, dismissal,
041discipline, promotion, demotion, compensation of public employees, excuse me, in matters related to negotiation, negotiations of public employees. There will be no action to follow. >> Second move. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Griggsby, >> yes. >> Mrs. Saxon, >> yes. Mr. Haynes, >> yes. >> Mr. McCart, >> yes. Mr. Vaka, >> yes. Right, everybody. Thank you. Everybody Sam