001Well, good evening and welcome to this regular meeting for Tuesday, June 3rd, 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 which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. My apologies. Oh my gosh. Driving so roll call, please. Mr. Frey, here. Mr. Haynes, here. Mr. McCarthy, here. Mr. Saxon, here. Mr. Baka here. Finalization of the agenda. Is there anything to add or remove? The agenda is final as presented. Thank you. Move right into the superintendent report. Excellent. We have uh two updates for the board and our public tonight. Uh first beginning with our end of the year school activities and festivities. There were lots. We got through all of our
002testing. Um thanks to our building principles, our curriculum department and technology teams. um despite there being always some snafoos with the state uh worked us through all of those different scenarios and great great success. So we are looking forward to those results every year. We have seen improvements um and that is not by accident. That is by the hard work of our staff and so we're very proud of our students and our staff for their hard work throughout this past year. Uh, we did just wrap up, as you're all aware, graduation for the first time here in Ranger Stadium was a huge success despite being pushed off by a day, but I think everybody would agree the weather was far more acceptable Thursday night than it would have been Wednesday. Um, so I know our
003students really love the opportunity to celebrate together here on their home field. And being our first time, we know um there was it was a learning opportunity. or things we will change for next year, things that you know we might do differently. And so we look forward to getting our heads together as we think about planning for next year. So any feedback anybody has, we certainly are open to that. Um, of course, end of the year brings lots of fun activities with all of our schools and their end of year school concerts. Most specifically, I was able to attend some preschool and kindergarten concerts, which of course, as you can imagine, is adorable. Um, and was absolutely worth the time. U, one huge thank you to all of our community partners for and to all
004of you for everything that we did for our senior scholarship winners. And I know there were many partners who gave away lots and lots of scholarship money to our students. So, we are very proud of all of those partners and the work again that our students do to be recognized. Also wrapped up with adaptable athletics which was uh somehow this beacon of perfect weather between torrential downpours for weeks and really worked out to be a beautiful day. Thank you to Jackie Vance and her team for organizing what really is an awesome event for our community and for our school students. Um and finally tonight happening at the BFW um our students at the high school under the leadership of Brandon Muk are being honored u by the BFW for putting together a video in remembrance
005and honoring our North Ridgeville veterans. So actually uh Miss Schroeder and Mr. Prit are there representing us tonight alongside Brandon Muk and all of our high school students. So, we're very very grateful to the work that they did to honor our very own here at North Ridgeville. Uh, moving on to construction. Uh, if you haven't had a chance to drive around Banebridge in the front of the campus, that work started quickly. Students were I don't even think they were out of here and they were putting up fences. Um, you know, so we have seen at this point all of the dirt begin to move in some of our temporary parking areas. Um and also the fencing where the construction site will be in order to keep our students and staff safe. Uh right now has
006for the most part been completed. Um we saw today a lot of truck traffic going in and out. Uh so we know that things are happening which is very exciting. Uh in the back maintenance transportation all of the pre-k of the brown concrete work has been happening over the past couple of weeks. Um so they too are moving along. If uh I know we've said it before, but just for everybody as a reminder, August 15th will be our formal back to school kickoff, which will include not only the official groundbreaking for the new high school, but also the 2000 Will Cox time capsule opening, couple of fun events to look forward to this summer, and lots of excitement. So, we are really excited to maybe take a few weeks to relax, but then all of
007this starts again and we are excited for next school year. So, thank you. Do you have a time for the whole 4:30? I believe it starts at 4:30, but we'll have all the specifics out um pretty soon. Thank you. Definitely mark your calendars. There's an opportunity for announcements. I do have a very important announcement that I want to share. Uh the board of education will hold a public hearing on the issue of a retired teacher and a retired administrator being employed in the district. That meeting will be at 6 p.m. on July 1st, 2025 right here in the community room at the North Ridgeville Academic Center. Thank you. Of course, here's an opportunity for hearing of the public. Anybody in attendance this evening would like to address the board of education, please approach the podium.
008Sign in and state your name and address. Seeing none, we'll move to the consents agenda. Saxon and education report. Yes. Um, we have several items outlined in the education report this evening. We'll begin with the annual connect service contract for the 2025 2026 school year, followed by the Southeast Security annual maintenance agreement. Next is a proposed five-year agreement with Savas to continue using Miller and Lavine biology resources at the high school. Also included is the Lorraine County inter agency agreement which outlines the delivery of services to support families with children from birth through kindergarten and early learning programs and chance light autism program for special needs students grades K through three who require a highly structured program. Next, we have contracts person and monarch, which are day treatment school programs that support students who receive
009special education and require more intensive support to access their school day successfully. Additionally, we have a contract with the Lorraine County Board of Disabilities Murray Ridge Center that serves preschool students. We are also presenting the district goals for the 2025 2026 school year. Lastly, we have reimbursements in L of transportation. Tonight serves as the first reading of these items. The second reading and consideration for approval will take place at the regular board meeting on June 17th. Thank you. This is the first reading of new and revised set of policies hosted by Nola. The second reading in consideration for approval will be at the June 17th regular meeting communications report. Mr. mix. Thank you, Mr. It is recommended that the board of education accept the following gifts of appreciation. For the adaptable athletics day, the Meister
010family gave poster boards and face paint. Chuck Kabovius donated $15. The NRC58 boosters gave $2,373 for buses to Cedar Points and $61 for buses to swings to swings and things. Our HDA music department received from Ashley Honey a gently used acoustic guitar and electric guitar. and Christina Sullivan donated gently used AJ used the LCPTA gave $2,214 in support of teacher grants and the North Richville Police Department gave or donated five bicycles for the girls in gear bike camp and of course we thank our community for the tremendous support of our schools and students. Thank you. Human resources report Mr. Haynes. Thank you Maka. We have a number of items in the human resources report. Three support staff resignations, six administrative contracts, three supervisor contracts, five nonrepresented support staff contracts, six support staff appointments, one NREA
011supplemental contract, one nonrea supplemental contract, two administrative contract adjustments, two support staff adjustments, one supplemental review committee handbook amendment. This is the first reading of these items. The second reading and consideration for approval will be on the June 17th regular board meeting. This concludes the human resources report. This concludes the consent agenda. Next, we have other board business starting with the human resources report. Mr. HS have a number of items to consider under human resources report. One administrative resignation, one support staff resignation, one treasurer contract, one certified staff appointment, three extended school year certified staff contracts, two extended school year special education aid contracts, one extended school year bus driver aid contract, one summer school certified staff contract, two public school certified substitute contracts, Three support staff substitute contracts. I move to approve the human
012resources items in one reading. Second. Moved by Mr. Haynes. Second by Miss Saxton. Is there any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Haynes, yes. Mr. Saxon, yes. Mr. Griggsby, yes. Mrs. McCarthy? Yes. Mr. Baka? Yes. Good evening everybody. I have the pleasure of announcing one new certified staff member this evening. Uh Sarah Risinger. All right. Sarah is coming to us from um the Cleveland Metropolitan School District where she's been teaching social studies uh for the past three years. Um we're thrilled to um invite invite her into the high school um staff, our social studies staff. Um we really enjoyed the experience that she had at one of the STEM buildings in Cleveland and part of her schedule will be um working with students in our STEM track doing um that learning um in those classes. She
013also has um an interest in some AP and some and some upper level social science courses as well. She'll be doing some world history next year. Uh she's a graduate of Brunswick and Miami University. Um I've said she was at three years in CMSD. Um and she uses perceptive as a word to describe herself and one of her most entertaining and different jobs was a lighting designer for musicals. um she's a fan of drama and productions and um we talked about in one of our interviews um the importance of that in historical um sense giving kids you know the ability to learn history through art and some of those exciting things. So there's a lot of great um qualities that Sarah brings um to the table and I'm going to have her um sign her
014contract here in a minute. Um, welcome. I also on behalf of the board of education am thrilled to announce um that Wendy Fanta will be moving from our interim treasurer to our treasurer. I got we, you know, we've had the pleasure of working with Wendy this year as our coordinator of fiscal services and then our as our interim um treasurer. She has also worked as an associate and assistant treasurer at both Northstead City Schools and Avon schools. Um before that, before getting her treasur's license, she also worked as a financial specialist. Um so she knows how to do every job in the treasurer's department and do it well. Uh so we're very excited to have her skill set. some of the things that has um stood out to me and the rest of our team,
015you know, is just how knowledgeable she is, how personable um hardworking and transparent, and it's just all of those qualities that we would want in a treasure um to our community. So, we're thrilled um to have Wendy on board with us. um she's already started and has and will just continue to provide professional development to our staff and our administrators and um just you know she has improved practices and looked at our policies and upheld the board policies. So we really think that her skill set will be a great asset to the North Bridge City Schools. So congratulations to her as well. Congratulations. We will sign contracts very quickly and then be done. There's your fantastic. You got to get a picture. Yes. Congratulations. Congratulations. Welcome aboard. Sorry. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you.
016Congratulations to both of you. Very excited to have you join our first city school. So, welcome. Welcome. All right. It is recommended the board of education adjourn this regular meeting. Second. Moved by Miss McCarthy, seconded by Miss Jackson. Roll call, please. Mrs. McCarthy. Yes. Mr. Jackson. Yes. Mr. Friggsby, yes. Mr. Haynes, yes. Mr. Bam, yes. Thank you everybody. to be just like the