001change. Well, good evening and welcome to this meeting for Tuesday, July 1st, 2025. If everybody could please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisibley and justice for all. Roll call, please. Mr. Griffy, here. Mr. Hayne, here. Ms. McCarthy here. Mrs. Jackson, here. Mr. Baka here. Finalization of the agenda. Is there anything to add or remove? The agenda is finalist presented. Thank you. We'll move right into the superintendent report. Excellent. I'd like to invite Miss Jackie Vance to the podium to share with the board a bit about our student wellness and prevention as well as a lot of the work that our social worker uh have been doing with our students and families throughout the
002last year. Miss Thank you. Um so, uh as I am here to present to you, it's a requirement that I share with you. Um it seems like everything I present for you guys is compliance and requirements. So um we're talking a little bit about student wellness and success funds. We do receive um funds from the state and we have been annually for the last I believe four to five years that that has been in place. One of the requirements is sharing that uh we receive these funds and then how do we utilize them and a piece of that is working with community groups um and agencies to utilize those services. And so noted is currently we work with and partner with the following providers as Ohio Guideststone through the Mars board and Lorraine County Educational
003Service Center. Um so through those two programs we are able to utilize and allocate funds um to provide services through three staff members and yeah there you go. Um so 100% of those funds um we use to support the mental health services that is provided to our district through the three staff that we have noted there is we have um Tanya K Coglin, Rachel Leaf and Liz Wansky. Um Tanya and Rachel are two social workers that work here um and service uh K to 12 preK. It's not too common that we get requests there, but they would if they needed to. And then Liz Wanssky, who is also um an LISW um is our uh coordinator of um wellness and prevention. And so she works alongside with them and supporting programming that we do here
004in the district. A lot of what she does is the behind thescenes work of processes. Um, you know, does a lot to support um, House Bill 123, which you guys have heard me talk about suicide prevention and violence prevention and also uh, ensuring that we have good connection with community resources. I listed there um, student wellness and success services. I'm not going to read all of these. I just want to highlight a few of them. Um just you know noting that we have continued to work with Winston Counseling and Services. Um even though these funds don't directly connect, they do a lot of facilitation with families who are looking for resources to our Winston counseling. Um we have service 75 students this past year. Um another piece that our school social workers do is that
005engagement in the home and helping families with community resources. Um we have 36 students and families uh 36 students within about approximately 21 families who have experienced homelessness. And so frequently when families reach out to us, one of the first things we do is connect them with one of the social workers. Not so much that they automatically need the support, but sometimes it's just somebody that is comfortable that they can have a conversation with and say, "Who can I go to or what do you need?" Um, and Liz Wansky actually contacts all of our families that are experiencing homeless monthly um to check in and just say, "Do you need something? Do is there anything I can do to support you?" Um, and frequently the answer is no, but sometimes there is a need, which
006is very helpful. Um, as noted, we deliver through Second Harvest. Um, we have 23 total families that we serve, but this year they have delivered 340 boxes of food. They do that monthly. they go they pack them they started in the morning pack them and then they go to famil family family's homes um and make arrangements for the drop of those services one of the two two programs that we're really proud of that we have done successfully over the last several years is rocks which is ruling our experiences that is a program that is specifically for girls um but we are looking at if a if a male student wanted to join or any student wanted to join we would absolutely accommodate the programming to support that. But typically, you're um it's about empowerment, you
007know, and using your voice in a positive direction. And then girls in gear, uh Liz Wansky has coordinated this program for the last four years. And this past year, she had such a great um response. I think she had 36 girls that joined the program. It has grown every year. And what we're really hoping to do is next year through um that the grant that we got um for safe routes to school is to have a girls um or a boys in gear kind of the same program and doing the same things. Even though it's not a national program, it's definitely duplicative. Um and we do that with support of heart and soul. Um if you can go to the next slide. Um, we received the McKini Vento grant this past year, um, which has
008assisted us in supporting some of those families with needs, whether it's, um, buying an air mattress or assisting them with clothing or hygiene products. So, that has been helpful and also with the transportation um, the costs related to transporting students. Um this past year there has been a big effort from our social workers including um Liz as the wellness to do tier 2 groups with around emotional regulation, social awareness and social anxiety. So these are students that buildings identify as students that just need a little extra support. Um they maybe don't need the level of maybe counseling or seeking out counseling. Um, and a lot of times we want to put students that are kind of on that bubble so that we can see them, you know, implement the strategies that they learn and and
009demonstrate positive successes in the classroom. Um, they continue to support all of our programmings around social emotional learning with Character Strong, zones of regulation, and the Kevin Love fund. Um, the final piece um that I'm excited to share with you over the upcoming year is the implementation of Panorama surveys. Um, we have been doing a significant amount of work to survey students and gather data and then determine what students truly need, what supports versus just walking up to somebody and somebody having an opinion. We want to go based on how students are feeling and um what they're sharing with us and then using that data to create um surveys that we're doing across the district. And so that has been a game changer for many of the teams to be using that. Liz Wansky has
010supported across the district. Um, and we're really excited for the upcoming year. We've had to learn a lot about the program, too. Um, you know, unfortunately, not everything is just a click and it does all the work for us and there's we've enjoyed um, learning about that. And then the final number that I always love to share with you guys is the touch points. 2,944 touch points. Every time our social workers and Liz have a contact with family or a student, they have to document that. Um and that's through the ESC and then they collect the data. Um and again just so impressive of the work they do just between the three of them um annually. The next slide I just shared some pictures. I know you guys always like a few pictures here and
011there. So the one in the left is um rocks and those girls went to a um a local nonprofit called Cop and Green and helped um pre um organize um hygiene bags that are here in the county. Um it's a great program that is available to our students who um qualify for free and reduced um lunches and they can receive hygiene products monthly and they always sometimes throw in like some makeup or hairspray or things along that line. So the girls went out there to um prepare those bags and then two pictures from girls in here this past year. um they they just have blast have a blast um going and they have speakers that come from the community and all over the areas um and really empower our students to really learn how to
012ride bikes safely, how to utilize them, and how to fix them, which is really um an awesome piece to it. And then finally, I have two slides for you. Again, not going to go over in great detail, but just data from year to year of what the social workers are doing. Um and you can see um if you can see that as far as away as it is, you know, there's always the needs are always increasing and and continuing to do the work of the touch points connecting with families. Um and then the next slide actually has a piece this past year we did path and green. So that shows the support. So we're getting more students to utilize it, which is positive. And then Christmas gift support. um our social workers do a great
013um uh networking with community care um and also other agencies around to do some supports for families there and then there's a list there of just the number of students that are experiencing homelessness. So we shared that with you as I had shared with you previously. So that is what I have to share with you tonight. As always, I enjoy celebrating the work um that our staff do um especially when it connects it to the families um and that impact of the community here in North Ridgeville. So, thank you very much. Thank you. Any questions? So, there's a program my granddaughter participated and is a third grader where she hooked up with an eighth grader. Yeah. So, that's through rocks. That's rocks. Okay. Yeah. So, each rocks group, there's two rocks groups. um they needed
014to do like a community service project. Um one of them which was the older seventh and eighth graders I believe they picked um some groups of students in third grade just no connect. It was more about the older students being role models to younger students. And so they met I think monthly um they would meet they read they had a you know a popsicle uh they would write crafts uh or make crafts um you know when they would get together. So, it's just a positive relationship, you know, for the girls. So, I'm glad she made a big impact. Oh, great. I'm so glad to hear that. And do you have enough? Oh, great. I was asking 3,000 touch points for three people. Um, well, I think that, you know, depending on how things go, I
015think we're absolutely going to have to consider that moving forward. Uh uh I I would really love to um build the capacity of our social workers so that they aren't running so much and can dive in a little bit more with some of the families and support them. Um but you know they're getting by and um you know we're continued you know Liz Wansky one of the other pieces she has done is writing grants which has been so helpful and you know they're not massive grants but every little bit helps um you know and you know I just appreciate her tenacity to work through the grants because they're not easy you know sometimes to gather the information but um we probably do need uh to consider an additional social worker in the future or looking
016at that family support network. So, and the reason I ask all the time, we started with one, we bought for years to get one social worker and quite frankly, these are some of our students that have the most need. Yeah. In order to be successful and more times than not, reaching into the family's home where there's a dynamic going on beyond the students ability to take care of. I want to make sure we have the right people in place and the right number of people. I think it's also the other piece of not of changing the stigma of social workers, right? And um so sometimes we consider like should we call them social workers because there's a stigma with that and helping all students not just you know families that are struggling. I mean whatever
017the struggle is. Um and that's one of the pieces that the three of them have really been working on. Um and I think that by them going into the classrooms when we've been doing the suicide prevention um they get connected with a lot of students and then they become familiar and comfortable when you see them. Um, and so that's one of the pieces I want to do also is change that stigma of when do you access, you know, a little extra help, you know. So, thank you. Ask Wendy's got plenty of money. Yeah. All right. Miss McCarthy, you have an announcement for I do. Um, we have a hearing of the public this evening on uh retiring and rehiring. Rehiring rehire. Man, let me start over. We have hearing of the public on rehiring a
018retired teacher and an administrator. So, if anyone would like to speak about rehiring Lynn Pritz and Paul Heronmus, now is your opportunity. Forever hold your peace. See none. I'll turn that back over to you, Mr. Thank you, Mr. Education report. Miss, uh, yes, we have several agreements for your consideration under the education report. These include a multi-year agreement with Thompson routers or clear investigation software to assist with residency verification agreements for student transportation services with professional van service company and America's best transportation a renewal of service contracts with the educational service center of Northeast Ohio for vision and hearing support. a renewal agreement with East Central Ohio Educational Service Center for a distance education course in American Sign Language and Mandarin. A memorandum of understanding with the city of North Ridgeville to support the school
019resource officer program with two officers. This is the first reading of these items. The second reading and consideration for approval will take place at the July 15th regular meeting. Thank you. Mr. Griggsby, a communications report. Yes, sir. It is recommended that board of education accept the following gift with appreciation. Lauren Vita and family made a monetary donation of $15,000 in honor of former teacher, Miss Julie Vita to Liberty Elementary School. We thank our community for the tremendous support. Thank you. And the buildings and operations report, we have three items under buildings and operations. First, we were recommending the approval of a oneyear lease agreement with Centerri Professional Plaza LLC to occupy building space for the Able Not Label program. Second, we are presenting the proposed student breakfast and lunch price increases for the 2025 2026
020school year. And lastly, we are recommending the approval of the district's insurance for the 2025 2026 school year through the Ohio School Plan with Love Insurance with the Love Insurance Agency. This is the first reading with approval expected at the July 15th meeting. Human resources report. Mr. Hen. Thank you, Miss Robin. We have a number of items in the human resources report. One administrative contract, one certified staff appointment, one NRAA supplemental contract. This concludes the human. Well, this concludes the consent agenda. Miss McCarthy, you are prepared to read the finance report. I am Mr. Rocka, but I'm gonna save you and um everyone present 15 pages and just summarize. Thank you. Of course. Uh we have one item for consideration under the finance report. It is a resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds for an
021amount not to exceed 21,170,000 as sets forth of the parameters within which they are to be issued. This represents the final sale of bonds for the high school. Proceeds will be used to finance school improvements and will be sold under terms designated to provide financial advantages to the district. I move to approve this bond resolution in one reading on page 20. Second. Moved by Miss McCarthy, second by Miss Saxton. Is there any discussion? Roll call, please. McCarthy, yes. Jackson, yes. Mr. Griggsby, yes. Mr. Haynes. Yes. Mr. Vaka. Yes. Human resources report. Mr. Haynes. Uh, we have several items to consider under human resources report. Four certified staff resignations. Three support staff resignations. Four supplemental contract resignations. One administrative staff contract. Two certified staff appointments. Two support staff appointments. Three NRAA supplemental contracts. Nine non NREA
022supplemental contracts. Two support staff substitute contracts. Five interior bus washing contracts. One unpaid volunteer recognition. I move to approve the human resources items in one reading. Moved by Mr. Hayne. Second by Mr. Frey. Is there any discussion? No. Call please. Mr. Hay. Yes. Mr. Griggsby. Yes. Mrs. McCarthy. Yes. Mr. Jackson. Yes. Mr. V. Yes. Is recommended that the board of You're right. We got our comfort all kind of introductions, don't we? Good evening everybody. Good evening. Good evening. Happy July. I can't believe it's July 1st already. Here we are trying to fill out um our staff for the upcoming school year and have some exciting um hires that I want to recognize this evening. Um at last month's or meeting, our jo our last June meeting, we had a few teachers um that were approved
023and were unable to join us. I do believe that Britney Hall has joined us online this evening. Um she is our school our new school psychologist um at ECLC or early childare learning center. Uh we'll be working a lot with our free school and kindergarten students um effective next year. She is currently in the process of moving here from Colorado where she has been working as a a school psych. And so we're excited to get her to town, but obviously needed to join us electronically. So, welcome aboard. Um, also I have Mackenzie Fabo with us here tonight. She'll come up. It's really exciting. Mackenzie is joining us as a reading tutor at ENRA. Um, we're thrilled to have her on the team. We really we've um we had the pleasure of having her and hosting
024her as a student teacher where the staff just fell in love with her. um she really did really well here um with our students and we were looking um to get her on board and so she will be working with our um third and fourth grade students I believe down in the littles um in in this building. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome. Congratulations. Van New House is also here with us. Nicole is joining us as an intervention specialist at the high school. She is going to be in our able unit um at the high school and so she comes to us with some vast experiences. She has taught in both the city schools and the Bay uh schools district. Um she has worked um her last stint was as a technology and robotics teacher, but she's
025also had extensive experience with um our students with disabilities as well. she was really drawn to our ABLE program and all of the things that we offer both um our kids and our typical peers in that program. Um and I think she'll be a great addition um to that and then we are rounding out our admin team um this evening at the high school. So um as you as you can remember we're probably wondering why do we have so many assistants you know why are we hiring so many assistants uh we feel very strongly that we hire such a great administrative team and our goal is really that our assistants go off and they do um they take over buildings and they you know go on to other positions um you know within the district
026and so you know we were very fortunate to have um had Mrs. Megan Hign Knight named our high school principal. So that was one of our assistant roles that we filled early on in the hiring season. I don't want to forget about Mrs. Molino who is joining us um from the Avon City Schools. But then we also had u Mr. Kosk went on as an assistant principal and he took uh the Sanduski High School job. So he became a high school uh high school principal. And so um in his place we brought on Mr. Rob Whitney. So thrilled to have Rob. Rob was actually fishing in Alaska when we were hired him a couple of weeks ago. So, um he is joining us from the Rocky River School District. We're thrilled um to have him
027and his leadership and his experience on our team for the past 10 years. He has served as Rocky River High School's principal. Uh before that, he was an assistant principal um in Sugar and Falls Sugar Falls and he was an art teacher. you can do administration from the art world. So, we're thrilled to have him on board. He's a University of Pinley graduate. Um, big casin, I think. And, um, we're thrilled, uh, to have him join our team advice. And, um, as we have one more assistant position, Dr. Steve Norris, our assistant principal at the high school, will be um, has accepted a principal job for next school year. So he too is moving on um to a principal role. So we're thrilled um you know for him and thank him for his um service
028to our district. Um and in his place we have hired Miss Melissa Sul. Melissa is coming to us um out of the classroom. She has taught the last seven years at Valyria. um comes with a lot of valuable middle school experience, but I'm excited um you know to for that transition for those you know for the u our younger you know students at the high school. She is a Kent State alumni and she got her administration degree from Ashley and we're thrilled to have her. Awesome. Thank you. That's it for Thank you. Thank you. So how'd you do catch anything or were you fishing and honey? So better on the fishing part. Okay. Substantialist on one side, fisherman on the other. Great experience. Good. Great. All right. It recommended the board of education adjourn this
029regular meeting. Roll call, please. Mr. Ba, yes. Mr. Haynes, yes. Mr. Griffy, yes. Mr. McCarthy, yes. Mr. Dex, yes. 65. Thank you everybody. And again, welcome everybody. A these small