001Thank you, Mr. Heronomous. Good evening everyone and welcome to the North Ridgeville City Schools Board of Education meeting. Today is Tuesday, September 16th, 2005. We'll get this meeting started with the pledge of allegiance. If you're able, please stand. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible for alliance. >> Roll call please. Mr. Griy >> here. >> Mr. Hayes >> here. >> Mrs. McCarthy here. Mrs. Sax >> here. Mr. Mr. Raka couldn't join us this evening. Um, we have finalization of the agenda. >> The agenda is final. It's presented. >> Thank you. Approval of minutes. It is recommended the board of education approve the written summary of the regular minutes for the meetings on August 5th, 2025 and August 19th, 2025.
002Moved. >> Second. >> Moved by Miss Saxon. Second by Mr. Haynes. Is there any discussion? Seeing none. Roll call, please. Mr. Tax, >> yes. Mr. Haynes, >> yes. >> Mr. Griggsby, >> yes. >> Mr. McCarthy, >> yes. >> We'll move on to the superintendent's treasures report. >> We would like to invite assistant superintendent, Mr. David Frit, to the podium to talk to the board a little bit about our current enrollment in the district. Mr. Brit, >> thank you very much. Good evening, everybody. Okay. Happy Tuesday. >> Happy Tuesday. >> Um, so it's my opportunity to talk a little bit about enrollment. Um, as we say every year at this time, we are growing. Um, but we're still growing. The good news is this year we have actually slowed a little bit over what we have
003previously seen. Um, when I look at overall numbers as far as enrollments go, if I look back a year ago, we had 53 new enrollments to the district. Now, when I tell you that number that sounds gigantic, and it is, don't get me wrong. Um, but part of that would be our prek and K who are coming to us for the first time. So, when you figure in, you know, last year we had 195 kindergarteners versus roughly um at about this time a year and another 120 or so prek students. It gives you a ballpark of what's left out there at 3K and K. Um, this year we have 466 new enrollments to the district. So, we are continuing to grow. uh little slower this past year than what we have been prior. So when
004I look at our enrollment now, it is slightly lower than where we ended last school year. And if you remember, that's a conversation that we have at this time every year. And the reason for that is as we move throughout the school year, we gain students through preschool and other things that may not be eligible now, but eventually become eligible either as they reach that age to where they can be admitted or they may be identified through disability status or something else that makes them eligible to join us. Um So about when I look at what we have enrolled actually in our buildings um not including necessarily what's at our JBS um 4,600 and some students add to that our JBS numbers add to it our out of district placements um and our students that
005are using scholarships and other things plus is right around 4,800 students is where we'd be sitting we look at what we're responsible for in some way shape or form. So, a couple of the interesting details as I look through. Um, our fifth grade is our smallest in the district and that has been for a number of years. That's actually our kindergarten group from CO. So, as they have metriculated through, they really have not grown the way some of our others have. So, that's our smallest group in the district. It still numbers about 320 students. Um, and I'm glad that we did it this month and not last month. And the reason that we've put this off or an extra month is we wanted to give you good hard details. If we do it in August,
006sometimes we don't always have our student pulled out of the system. Um, which makes this one even more amazing. Our largest grade is now our ninth grade at 390 students. So if we had done this last month, but actually have touched 400 students. So we are not far off from that number in a number of our grade levels. Um, so being somewhere in that 370, 380, 390 range has become our norm, particularly at our middle school and our our range. So that's kind of where we are for the year. I expect these numbers will continue to grow over the course of the year. Um, as people see the great things that are happening here. So >> you have questions that I can try to answer. >> Thank you. We'll talk again next September. >> Maybe
007before then. Super. >> Thank you. Superintendent Ferio. We'll move on to announcements and hearing of the public. Does anybody have any announcements on the board or administrative team like to share anything? Nothing. We do have a food drive coming up. I believe that starts next week on uh Tuesday um at all the buildings. It's coordinated by the Lions Club of North Ridgeville and it's a competition between school buildings and including St. computers. So competition is done by weight, not numbers of items. So we encourage families to donate as they are able to. We appreciate that. And hearing of the public, anybody would like to address the board this evening. Seeing none, we'll move on to the consent agenda. It is recommended the board of education approve the consent agenda resolution as it is presented. Can
008I get a motion? Moved >> second. >> Moved by Miss Saxton, second by Mr. Haynes. Is that correct? Mr. Griggsby moved by the second by Mr. Griggsby. Is there any discussion? Roll call, please. >> Mr. Saxon, >> yes. >> Mr. Griggsby, >> yes. >> Mr. Haynes, >> yes. >> Mrs. McCarthy, >> yes. Moving to our finance report. We have five items this evening. First, a resolution to approve the financial reports for August 2025. Next is a resolution um for the fiscal year 2026 permanent appropriations. We have a resolution to amend the fiscal year 2026 certificate of estimated resources. A resolution authorizing the treasurer to accept tax settlement funds electronically from the Lorraine County Auditor. And finally, a resolution to approve the agreement with Julian and Group Incorporated for preparation of the district's basic financial statements.
009I move to approve these finance items in one reading. >> Second. >> Moved by myself, seconded by Miss Saxon. Is there any discussion? Wendy, is there anything you would like to add for the financial report this evening? >> No. >> Okay. There's questions. Thank you. Uh, roll call, please. >> Mrs. McCarthy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Saxon, >> yes. >> Mr. Griggsby, >> yes. >> Mr. Haynes, >> yes. >> We're going to move into other board business tonight with the human resources report. Mr. Haynes, >> thank good. We have several items to consider under the human resources report. Three support staff appointments, one NREA supplemental contract, one non NREA supplemental contract, four support staff substitute contracts, one unpaid volunteer recognition, seven certified staff contract adjustments, two support staff contract adjustments, two certified staff resignations. I move
010to approve the human resources in one reading. Second. >> Moved by Mr. Haynes, second by Mr. Hersby. Is there any discussion? >> Seeing none. Roll call, please. Mr. Haynes, >> yes. >> Mr. Griggsby, >> yes. >> Mrs. McCarthy, >> yes. Mrs. Sax, >> yes. All right, that concludes our meeting. Is recommended the board of education adjourn this regular meeting. >> Second. May I get a motion first? >> We're gonna do Mr. Haynes as a moving and Mr. Griggsby a second. Is everyone okay with that? >> Yes. >> Fantastic. Roll call, please. >> Mr. Haynes. >> Yes. >> Mr. Griffby. >> Yes. >> Mrs. McCarthy? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Saxon? >> Yes. >> Thank you everyone. Have a very good evening. We'll see you here next month. >> Yes. him with a