001Well, good evening and welcome to this regular meeting for Tuesday, May 6, 2025. Everybody can please stand for I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Roll call, please. Mr. Dby here. Mr. Hayes here. Mr. McCarthy here. Mr. Saxton here. Mr. Rosa 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. Thank you. Good evening everyone. I appreciate your time this evening. We just have two really quick items um that generally happen about this time of the year. So these are more handle type items. Um the first is just a quick quick update on where we are with open enrollment.
002Um as you know the district makes a decision each year about opening open enrollment for the following year. So um our number of our open enrollment continues to decline. So when I look at our numbers for this year we've got just under 40 students who are currently open enrolled which works out to 8.1%. U so not a significant number. So when I look at our enrollment for the last couple of years, last year we had eight seniors graduate that were open enrolled, we have replaced it on the lower end of the spectrum when we look at our K1s, our prekk uh with two students. So those numbers continue to decline. Um we've got about five seniors that are scheduled to graduate this year that are currently open enrolled and about five juniors that a year
003from now will do the same thing. So that number at that point in time assuming we keep our enrollment about how it has been brings us down to under 30 students. And really the reason I stopped giving a number there is when we look at our current juniors next year senior class that is the first year of our high-tech group. So those would have been the fourth graders in high-tech when that building first opened. And when we opened that building that's where we took on a a number of these students was to fill out those classes because we didn't necessarily have them open from within the district. So, uh, I would recommend that we continue to do what we have done, uh, which is to remain selectively open. We know that in some grade levels
004we have space and we know that in other grade levels we simply don't. Um, well, the process we've had in place has served us well, I feel like for the last couple of years, um, really I feel like we're two or three years off before we can have a conversation about whether or not we'd look to get um, open it back up on a larger scale and that will be when the high school comes online and we have more capacity there. I think at that point time is a logical time to have a discussion about whether or not we continue with that. But there any questions from the open enrollment side of things. Great. And the other just quick one is you have on tonight's agenda a first um reading for the revised student handbook.
005So if you're not familiar, we issue one of those every year. We board approved one every single year. This is the most significant revision I would say it's had in probably 15 years when I think back to what we have been using. So it is entirely aligned or mostly aligned with a template that was provided by NEOA. So what you will see different in this one's pre to previous versions is this version had a lot more of actual board policy in it. Um, so you will find all the legal requirements in the board policies um and board policies and then at the end of the handbook we will have a section for each of our buildings that spells out kind of building specific things and processes. So uh we'll ask for a first reading of
006that tonight. Um a second reading of that later this month. That way we can have parents as they're doing their back to school form sign off if they have read a handbook and they understand the handbook. Um the one slight change to the way that we're formatting this one is because they are board policies the handbook will change potentially throughout the school years. Those policies change that is front and center or near front and center in the document itself so that people understand that what they have in front of them is up to date as of the time that they're signing off on it but there may be revisions as those policies change. They ask the question of course so how will they be notified of the changes? So what it actually says is that
007it's up to date as the time of the approval. If they have questions to reach out to building administration is what it says and then they can provide them with those updates. Okay. We obviously will have an updated version online as those are approved. Uh because it's a live doc that actually parents are able to see when they when they log in. Um, there's a part of me that would like for parents to be notified when it doesn't have to be the specific, but just a a general email that says there's been revisions to the student handbook due to board policy, go to the website. I think I would have concerns about anything in regards to discipline where all of a sudden you thought you had an understanding and the policy changes and now the
008discipline changes. So just to hey go to the board policy and then we protect ourselves because we made you aware that there was policy changes so that our monthly newsletters have to do this perfectly and that's likely to happen probably twice a year right you know we get a set of revisions to start the school year and another set usually in January other questions or thoughts thank you that concludes superintendent report here's an an opportunity for announcements uh if you have any announcements this evening. Nothing. Wow. Okay. There's also an opportunity for hearing of the public. If anybody in attendance this evening would like to address the board of education, please approach the podium, sign in, state your name and address, and you have three minutes. No. Okay, sounds good. You sure? Maybe. Awesome. Okay.
009All right. We'll move right into the sense agenda. uh education report Saxon. Yes. Uh we have several items outlined in the education report. First, we have the parent square contract beginning with the 2025 2026 school year. The district will transition to parent square as our new mass communication platform. Parent Square will be used for district-wide school and classroom communications. We are entering into a three-year contract to enhance the consistency, security, and efficiency of communications with families. Next is an agreement with Winston Consulting and Counseling. They will provide services focused on mental health promotion, early intervention and treatment for our students. Following that, we have agreements with Kids Link, PEP STEMs Educational Group, ABA Outreach Services, Education Alternatives, Transportation, Education Alternative Services, Suburban Transportation, and Theradime Incorporated. These agreements will provide behavioral and educational support services
010for students attending North Ridgeville City Schools during the 2025 2026 school year. We also have a 5-year agreement with Explore Learning to continue the use of Gizmos in grades 5 through 12. Gizmos are interactive STEM simulations and virtual labs that support conceptual understanding in math and science. Additionally, we are proposing updated school fees for board consideration. The revised fee structure reflects adjustments based on increased costs for technology, instructional materials, communication tools, digital resources, and parking expenses. Finally, we have the 2025 2026 student handbook for your review. Tonight is the first reading of these items. The second reading in consideration for approval will take place at the regular meeting on May 21. Yeah, Mr. Monica, if I may, can I ask um for our cabinet team and Miss Vance if you have um specifically because you
011have most of the agreements on here if you have any overview of anything you want to be aware of. Sure. I do frequently have a lot of my agreements on uh for this month and the next month for the school year. So, Winston Consulting and Counseling, they are our provider uh they are a private provider that we contract with to provide services to our students since we have lost community mental health services um due to the shortages locally. Um and this is our third year uh going into an agreement with them and have been happy um with their services and they will be servicing students um K to 12 next year which is something we haven't been able to do completely due to capacity. Um the other services that are listed primarily as in special
012education we have what are called least restrictive environments and we have to be able to service students in their least restrictive environment. And if North Ridgeville City Schools is not able to meet the needs of the students either due to behaviors or their disabilities or the level of um adult support that they require, then we do contract with other providers. And we are so lucky here in Northeast Ohio to have so many providers out there so that we can it's not a one-sizefits-all and we can use many providers um to support our students. Along with those placements, we do need to provide transportation and as we know, we have a shortage of drivers and so we frequently need to contract and also provide very specialized transportation for some of our students. Finally, there's a contract
013for Theodine. They are a um company that we have been contracting with probably with just over 15 years and they provide our occupational therapy services across the district. Um and we have had great success with their services and supports and progress of our students. I think that's all for me. Thank you. Appreciate that. Move to the communications report for Smith. Thank you. It is recommended that the board of education accept the following gifts with appreciation. Those that donate to the adaptable athletics day are RW Beckett Corp gave $1,000. Anderson process gave $100. O'Neal Healthcare $150. Ryell $200. RGI Creative $150. North Coast Eye Care $250 and Poppy's Popcorn gave a basket and pop gift basket, excuse me, and popcorn for athletes. For the Liberty Fund Run, G or Gian Performance Solutions donated $500 and NREA
014donated $156 for the North Richville Athletic Boosters. Okay, so um $1,500. Well, they donated $1500 towards choreography camp for middle school cheer. $1,100 for the choreography camp for competition chair, $2,500 for golf bags for the golf team, and $1,800 drone a drone for filming. And at the NAC, the 34 PTO, they donated $37 snacks for state testing. The ECLC PTA gave $89.82 82 towards nurses supplies, $161.72 for the staff appreciation, $45.76 for the preschool gym equipment. Additional donations from Chris Stewart, $500 towards the choir, band boosters, a snare drum, and a set of Savian symbols validated at $1,900. And we thank our community for the tremendous support for our schools. Barely got that. Thank you. All right, buildings in operation. We have two items in buildings and operations tonight. The first is the district's annual
015renewal of the f food service agreement with Aramark and the second is um to provide optional student insurance through love insurance agency and that option there is no cost to the district. You resources speak foreign language human resources report Mr. Haynes. Thank you Mr. We have a number of items in the human resources report. Five summer preschool assessment contracts. 13 summer school teacher contracts. One substitute summer school teacher contract. Seven extended school year certified staff contracts. 15 extended school year special education aid contracts. One extended school year substitute special education aid contract. 58 NREA supplemental contracts. 20 non NREA supplemental contracts, 34 support staff substitute contracts, 20 extended day contracts, 19 ESY bus driver and bus a contracts, two hourly tutor contracts, 10 certified staff leave of absences. This is the first reading on these
016items. The second reading and consideration for approval will be on the May 20th regular meeting. This concludes the human resources report to the next section. All right, back again. We have a number of items to consider under the human resources report. Six certified staff, Mr. Yeah, you're back up a page. Take a breath. Hey, you like get hit places early, don't Yes, I do. Don't get lost that way. All right. Under buildings and grounds. Thanks. We have a resolution to approve GMP number three to the construction manager agreement for the new transportation maintenance facility and high school. This GMP is for early site work and development. I move to approve this building and grounds report and one ratings. Second. Move by myself. seconded by Miss McCarthy. Before we vote, we have Hamlin here. Can you
017give us a brief overview of where we're at with this, sir? Sure. Good evening. Good evening. Uh for your consideration this evening, as stated is GMP number three. This is our first GMP that involves the new high. So, the past two GMPs were exclusively for the transportation maintenance center. And as stated, this is for the early site work. So this the scope of this GMP will be to primarily earth work, lay the groundwork, um remove all the top soil, do some underground utility work in preparation of the new high school construction. The new high school uh that construction will start next spring. So about a year from now, but this duration allows us ahead of uh inclement weather through the winter to get the site all prepared and ready to go so that we can
018start as soon as the weather breaks in in 2026 on the new building. and then the building will come vertically out of the ground. This is the third GMP. Uh the next GMP that we'll probably come before you all with is a smaller GMP and it has to be it will have to do with um some soil uh stabilization work at the high school site. So we've evaluated working closely with the geotechnical engineering team. We've evaluated a couple options. is the most economical option is is a scenario where we will do some ah some augering and and put some stone in the ground basically stabilizes the the earth in preparation of the uh new high school. So that'll come before the board in the fall and then at the end of the year closer to
019the end of the year will be the largest GMP obviously that'll be for the new high school. Um and then there there could be some onsuing ones thereafter demolition of the existing building of course. So, okay. Any questions I can uh not about um specifically about this GMP, but how everything is on track for our transportation maintenance? It is. It looks um it looks like a little bit of a lull of activity out there and I I certainly am aware of that. We have had a couple little hiccups. Um not uh neither none of them overly impacting. So, we will hold our dates certainly on on everything that we have committed to. We don't have any concern with the overall dates. We're waiting on some pre-cast materials that will uh enable us to put some
020underground storm water structures in the ground here. And then obviously we don't want to get on the the soil um when it's extremely wet because it's compacted and warm right now and uh so it's not real favorable for us to continue earthwork. So I do expect a flurry of activity there this summer. Um and you'll see the building come out of the ground. The building in essence is a pre-engineered metal building. So that structure, the majority of that structure is on site already. Uh it's um and you'll see that come out of the ground near the summer. So in regards to storm water, our management over there, is that going directly into the creek or are we to put in an underground retention that'll slowly release it? Absolutely. It'll be slowly released as you're suggesting.
021Um, so there will be a new detention area that will be constructed on that uh transportation and maintenance site um on the very northern corner of the site that'll hold all the storm water on that site and then it'll get released to the existing creek. And that's the same principles that will hold true um for the high school site. We'll be putting in some some detention areas on the high school site that do the same thing as well. Now, aren't these exposed detention or any of them underground detention? they are all exposed. Okay. Um they will not stay wet. Um they will not stay as ponds if you will. Um they will be they will hold water after storm events and then that water will be released slowly to the to the city storm water
022systems. But generally speaking, other than what we've seen in the last few days, um generally speaking, they'll be dry based mable with grass. So that's just to reassure the community. I work for the city. So storm water management is very important at North Ridge with the issues we have with flooding. So just to make the community aware we have every intention of managing our storm water on our property so it doesn't overwhelm our current systems. Absolutely the case and there's a lot of eyes on that there. First of all, there's law in place that mandate that. And then the city engineers um have been reviewing all of the submissions to date and reviewing ELC all the calculations to make sure we're doing exactly that holding all the water on our site. And going back to
023um this GMP, can you um I think you already said it, but can you say again when does the site work start for the for this specific GMP? Sure. That's a good question. I did not say it. Okay. Last day of school is the 29th and we intend to start the 30th. Okay. So, um, clearly we will be disrupting a large part of the site. Uh, we're going to be taking over a majority of the student parking area that the new high school goes. We're going to actually be constructing two permanent parking lots um on the western side of the site as well. Uh, so we're we know it's very disrupt disruptive to the campus. We're going to wait till schools out and we'll be on it the day after school. I know it's a
024there'll be staff on on site, but we hope to get the majority of that done this summer. Some of the new parking lot work will continue into September, but uh in the fall we'll have two additional new parking lots turned back over to the school district. That's the plan. Great. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you all. Roll call, please. Mr. Vox, yes. McCarthy, yes. Mr. Griggsby, yes. Mr. Haynes, yes. Met. Yes. Okay. Mr. HS human resources report. Thank you, Mr. Uh let's see. We have a number of items to consider under the human resources report. Six certified staff appointments, one nonrepresented support staff adjustment, two administrative staff resignations, two certified staff resignations, five support staff resignations. I move to the human resources items in one reading. Second move by Mr. Hay, second by
025Mr. Briggs. Is there any discussion? Roll call, please. Mr. Hay, yes. Mr. Griggsby, yes. Mrs. McCarthy, yes. Mrs. Satson, yes. Mr. Baka, yes. It is recommended that the board of education enter can't take away my favorite bird. I hate it. It's that time of year that um we always have a number of new uh appointments and new staff that we would like to welcome to the North Bridgeville City Schools. We do maybe have a couple of joining us online and I know I have one who is coaching lacrosse and is going to be um announced at the May 20th meeting. I also have one that is currently working downstairs getting kids ready for Washington DC. So, if she jumps up, I may introduce her as well. But, um there are two individuals that couldn't be
026here with us tonight. Hannah Fuller is joining us as an English language learner teacher to the district. Um she is going to be graduating. She's a senior at Miami University in Oxford. um and they're graduating in a couple of weeks. So, obviously she couldn't make the trip uh this evening, but um she fell in love, she was going to be a Spanish major and speaks um Spanish um uh fully and um but fell in love teaching English as a second language when she studied abroad in Spain. Um she lists her mother um as her inspiration because she finds the good in everyone and we're really excited to have her um to support our students uh next door with us. um and she'll be a great addition uh to our staff. Um Maggie Lavell is joining
027us as a speech language pathologist uh to the district. She got her undergrad at the Ohio State University and she got her masters at Walurn Wallace University. She also listed her mom uh who is a science teacher and has been teaching over 25 years as her inspiration to go into the field um of education. She currently is working in the private sector um at with Sprout Therapy, but she's providing services uh to students at St. Jude's. So, we're really fortunate to have her uh with us as well. Um and then I have two new members with us. So, Courtney, if you'd come up first. Y Courtney Barla is um joining us as an intervention specialist at the academic center. Um she currently has experience as an is um in the Garfield Bay City School District.
028So she's coming to us um with some experience. Um she lists the US women's soccer team as her favorite team. Um and she lists her parents as her inspiration. Um she is a BG Bowling Green State University graduate and we are excited to have her here at ENT. And Grace Ferrell is also with us. Y Grace just graduated this past weekend from Ohio University. So we just got her back to the area. Um so that's been an exciting couple of days for her. She is joining us as an intervention specialist at the high school. Uh so she'll be working with our students at the high school. Um she has been working uh during her breaks at the nest schools um and with littles I think with little kids. So she has a a broad spectrum
029of experience. Um she did state that in the past she has worked for the Cleveland Guardians so in the summertime but she still lists her OU Bobcats as her favorite team. So, we are thrilled um to have Grace with us. And Courtney, if you guys come up, I'm going to have you guys sign and get some pictures. So, it's gonna be like, did you have much rain down that rain? Very wet. All right. One, two, three. Thank you. Perfect. It is recommended the board of education enter into executive session at session to discuss the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, compensation of public employees, a matter relating to negotiations of public employees. There will be no action to follow. Moved. Second move by Miss Saxon, second by Mr. Haynes. Roll call, please. Mr. Jackson, yes.
030Mr. Haynes, yes. Mr. Griggsby, yes. Mr. McCarthy, yes. Mr. Buck. Yes. 626.