001for tuesday may 18th and everybody please stand for the pledge of allegiance of the united states one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all this is yet mrs mccarthy here mrs saxon here this is tamira here mr vodka finalization of the agenda is there anything to add and or delete the agenda is final is presented thank you it is recommended that the board of education approve the written summary of the regular minutes for the meetings on april 6th april 20th 2021 and april 26 2021. second miss tamira second thunder saxon is there any discussion roll call please this is tamira yes mrs saxon yes this is etsy mrs mccarthy yes mr vodka yes right into the superintendence report okay well i don't know about all of you but i can't believe it
002is may and by far my most exciting favorite time of year um but tonight is extra special we have the i have the honor and pleasure to recognize the 2021 retirees of the north ridgeville city schools um combined the small group of seven people has rendered 200 years of service to our district that's absolutely outstanding and we are so proud of the commitment and dedication that these professionals have put into nurturing the children of our community and tonight we thank them for their service to the north ridgeville city schools additionally we recognize them for the mentorship and leadership they have shared with their colleagues throughout the years ladies and gentlemen i present to you the 2021 retirees of north ridgeville city schools beginning with mrs denise brady i think denise is with us tonight denise
003brady began her career as a highly requested substitute teacher for both north ridgeville city schools and illyria city schools denise was hired as a learning disability small group tutor for elementary students in 1987 and she served as an individual tutor for visually impaired middle school students in august of 1989 denise served as a sixth grade teacher and a tutor for students with disabilities denise became a fourth grade teacher during the 1990 and 1991 school year then moved to the middle school to teach social studies denise will finish up her career in this role as a social studies teacher also throughout her career denise was the audio-visual director at field suite a middle school cheerleading coach the middle school athletic faculty manager and a home instruction tutor congratulations denise we're so thrilled for you next we
004have miss janet hartman with 22 years of service to the district janet hartman was hired as a part-time physical education teacher at the middle school in 1999 janet moved to liberty elementary as a full-time pe teacher where she remains today during her career janet served as a safety patrol advisor a middle school girls basketball coach the liberty chain of command first person liberty building leadership team and additionally was on the health k9 course of study review team and the elementary physical education course of study review team congratulations janet okay and our final certified retiree is julie mccauley who served us for 36 years julie mcauley was hired as a third grade teacher at liberty elementary school in 2008 prior to teaching for the north ridgeville city schools julie was an intervention specialist with westlake city
005schools a principal with avon local schools a middle school math teacher with cleveland municipal school district and a development director teacher and drama director with open door christian schools during her career with nrcs julie taught summer school and was also a mentor teacher for our new staff members thank you so much julie and congratulations additionally we have four support staff members who are retiring uh beginning with laura baystock for 30 years of service laura began working as a substitute cleaner for north ridgeville in 1982. she became a substitute food service worker in 1995 and was hired as a server at liberty in 1996. laura moved to the middle school and became a cashier during the 2000-2001 school year and then moved to the academic center and became a head cashier in 2017 where she remains
006until her retirement at the end of the school year congratulations laura and thank you for your service [Applause] marie justine beamont for 23 years of service justine was hired as a support staff substitute beginning in the 1995-1996 school year in 1998 justine became a paraprofessional instructional aide at liberty until she became the attendance secretary at wilcox in 2007. later that year she accepted the athletic secretary position at the high school when the academic center opened in 2017 justine became the 5-8 office secretary until her retirement on march 1st 2021 while she's not with us tonight we congratulate marie justine bement also unable to attend but served us for 30 years is vera gail rimmer beer rimmer began as a substitute cafeteria worker in the 1989-1990 school year barrow was hired as a food service worker
007server at field suite elementary in 1991. vera moved to the middle school as a server in may of 1992 until she transferred to the high school in 1994. in 1998 bear became a cook at the high school until the school year when she assumed the head cook position where she remained until her retirement on november 1 2020. congratulations vera and our final retiree this evening is cheryl stoll cheryl began her career as a substitute bus driver in 1997 until she was hired as a full-time driver in january of 1998. cheryl remained employed as a school bus driver until her retirement on october 1st 2020. congratulations cheryl president baca vice president saxon and members of the board of education i present to you the north ridgeville city schools 2021 retirees congratulations to all of you [Applause]
008congratulations to all of you and we appreciate all the years of service you dedicated to the students of north regional city schools i know the last 18 months of your employment haven't necessarily been what you envisioned as you went into retirement but we do appreciate everything you've done for us everything you've done in the last 18 months so enjoy retirement for everything that's worth then come back and visit us please [Applause] congratulations okay uh next we have an update as we do every may to our five year forecast and i would turn it over to our district treasurer cfo michael cassini thank you mrs casario president baca members of the board so this is always a good time for me to talk about the financial position of the school district with the presentation of the
009five-year forecast as you may recall we met in november of um we talked about the five-year forecast that was our initial forecast for the current fiscal year um and now this is the may update to that november forecast we use the forecast as a tool communication device to not only engage the board but also the community and long-range planning and to provide the information necessary to make sound financial decisions serves as a basis for the approval of contracts negotiated agreements and it's also a method for oversight organizations like the auditor of state's office the ohio department of education to identify school districts with potential financial issues the forecast is very much a working document we're looking at only general fund revenues and expenditures and i do create the forecast in a conservative manner using the
010most current information at the time and that information does change a lot there's been a lot of ups and downs back and forth in the past year and a half or so and i think the forecast is certainly reflective of that some of the highlights these are items impacting the forecast they include topics that we discussed during the november meeting as well as new information and and changes since that time and i'm going to talk about each one of these a little bit uh real estate real estate collections are the district's largest revenue source came in slightly higher than expected this is due to a combination of collections split the timing of when taxes were paid as well as the collection of delinquent taxes from the prior fiscal year probably the biggest one state funding
011if you remember towards the beginning of the pandemic the district was cut two million dollars in state funding we were given back a portion of that a little over six hundred thousand dollars out of that two million uh we were given back uh in our state funding uh from the the initial cuts that the state had made ohio bureau of workers compensation dividend payments so to help ease the impact of the pandemic the governor ordered the release of workers compensation reserves this resulted in multiple dividend payments that the district received was a highly unanticipated event expenditures and the pandemic so overall the the pandemic although it created additional expenditures that we would not have typically seen in in a regular school year it also changed those expenses that we would typically have in a regular
012school year for example substitute costs were down significantly this current fiscal year compared to what we spent on substitute uh substitutes uh in in the prior fiscal year there were several uh incentives and programs we were able to take advantage of and apply credits for salaries paid during the time that we were completely remote eliminating premium payment on our workers comp something that we would see a typical expense that we would have every year just to name a few examples there the cares act relief funding kind of goes hand in hand to student wellness and success funding so the receipt of one-time relief funding under the cares act allowed us the ability to offset general fund expenditures in salaries supplies materials and capital outlay line items in the forecast in the current fiscal year student
013wellness and success funding that's also been applied in in a similar manner in november we talked about the concept of supplanting and we were able to successfully apply that with with student wellness and success funds as well in the current year of the five year forecast so collectively these items have improved bottom line numbers most notably like i said in the current fiscal year of the forecast with the projected surplus now the most important point i'd like to make is that all of those items were one-time items this has bought us time but it does not change that critical growing need for additional revenue as noted by the deficit spending throughout the forecast period now revenues are in fact growing they are growing at an average of 1.3 million dollars throughout the forecast period just
014a little over 60 percent of the district's revenue is generated from local sources november we talked about the importance of the tax base assessed valuation millage and what a mill generates in north ridgeville and that is primarily what is driving the revenue increases throughout the forecast period and that's where all that the revenue growth comes from we still continue to be frozen uh in our state funding regardless of any increasing enrollment numbers and there's been several proposals on a new funding formula with the most current uh the recent house bill 110 whether you look at the old formula or any newly proposed versions of a funding formula for school districts our district is going to be perceived as incredibly wealthy compared to many districts across the state of ohio so i do not foresee revenue
015increasing on the state side anytime soon and if it does i don't anticipate it being a significant event for us at the same time we see our revenue growing at an average of 1.3 million per year we also see growth on the expense side only expenses are growing at an average of almost 3 million per year through the forecast period and this isn't because any one thing is entirely wrong it's a scenario that you would typically see in a district like ours where the trend has historically been 100 new students enrolled per year since 2015. now by the last year on the forecast we anticipate enrollment being over 5 000. the graph here you can see this goes back all the way to 2016 and you can see the progression here and then when you
016get to 20 you see where it stays flat from 20 to 21 when really it should be about here and that's what i was talking about with that this is where we were able to that one time funding came in we were able to supplant those general fund expenses and that's what i was referring to when i was saying it being one time only because you can see the next year and 22 it follows that same progression that we've seen going back to 2016. now what's driving this the expense side is is primarily being driven by increases in staffing due to accommodate an increasing enrollment uh and that is one of the the main assumptions in in the five-year forecast with an increasing enrollment we also have increasing costs for instructional materials technology equipment transportation
017costs associated with students on individualized education plans as well as inflationary costs the cost to do business operate and be competitive all go up so that we are able to continuously deliver that best hit the best educational experience and to fulfill all the expectations of north ridgeville so expenses are growing faster than revenue if you look at the graph here with the two lines the blue line being revenue and the orange line being expenses this again will take you back to 2016 and you can see the trend you can see that steady growth in the blue line and then you see how the orange line the orange expenditure line is at a higher incline so this tells us that revenues although they are growing they have consistently been outpaced by the growth in our expenses
018and we're now at the point where those two lines are crossing now the impact on the financial position on the district's cash balance is illustrated by this graph above here you can see the climb and here's the level off and then the drama really that is school finance in a nutshell the numbers in blue there to the right those are forecasted projections for this current fiscal year so we started off as actual cash balance we started the fiscal year off with in projected revenues projected expenses and projected ending cash balance so that is the projected cash balance we will have at the close of this current fiscal year in june that seems like a lot and it is a lot the cash balance can only be used once to offset revenue shortfalls that exist now
019if cash balance is used too many years in a row to balance the budget then the amount of additional revenue and or cuts needed to balance the budget grows it grows exponentially that cash balance can help soften the urgency of budget stress but is not a long-term solution we used it once already last year here and if you look at the graph here you can see the progression you can see there's surplus and a small surplus here in 19 and then deficit now this seems a little abrupt but remember this is where we were cut two million dollars in state funding so it happened all at once then this year we got some of that back along with the other one-time funding and expenditure offsets that put us right back up into a surplus situation
020so it again it happened all at once and it's a matter of the timing and how things transpire that is making it look this way the trend analysis would tell us that the current fiscal year should actually be a deficit and you can see how it comes back everything comes back as normal when all those one-time expenses or when that one-time revenue that we've used to offset expenses it follows that same trend so there's some questions we need to ask are revenue sufficient to support the cost of current services are expenditures growing faster than revenue well we've answered one of those questions already there was a 10-year promise made during the bond issue to build the academic center that we're in right now now it has been priority to the board to hold true on
021that promise an operating levy in the spring of 2022 would fulfill that promise and that would be the timing that i would recommend a levy passed in 22 would not be distributed to the district as revenue until 2023 and that is where that tax year calendar year versus fiscal year come into play so essentially that means that it's a delayed timing effect so the first fiscal year following an election is only going to generate half of a typical year's proceeds from whatever levy decision is determined or made at that time so that that is why it's this is something that it's always the best outcomes are when it's always considered in advance when we're talking about this in advance and thinking about it before that it starts compounding and that need becomes very immediate and
022what that does is end up it ends up costing more than what would have been required had it been discussed in advance so with that i do think that we can balance the budget by that time i'm hopeful that we can do that and not just to be in a good position financially but to be in a good position from a planning perspective so that we're able to continue to deliver on expectations as the district grows uh and as we grow as a community as a whole and that concludes the the may forecast report you thank you very much um so just to be clear uh our surplus was generated by one-time revenue streams that we can no longer forecast correct right savings from the pandemic or will be savings that we will no longer
023realize once we go back to school full-time in the fall and based on that among other things um the deficit spending there's no other answer at this point short of a new revenue stream through a new levy or cutting things those are our options and the reason we're sharing this information with you now is to get out in front of it so you have the information sooner versus later north ridge city schools has done an amazing job of offering so many things to our students that would be directly put at risk our stem programs our on our distance learning all the things that we share with you month to month the highlights that we share with you month-to-month is because the hard work of staff but staff comes at a cost the growth in this
024district will continue to generate opportunities but with those opportunities there's expenses so again we're sharing this information with you to get out in front of it so that you see it coming so we can start having candid conversations on how this district looks moving forward and what we want for the students that growth will continue building has not slowed down through this pandemic in north ridgeville by any stretch of the imagination and once we come out on the back side of this pandemic i anticipate some of the students that went elsewhere will be returning to north original city schools so looking forward we really need to have these conversations and i appreciate the fact that our treasurer is taking a look at it because when you explain the situation if we do it later versus
025sooner it costs more money that's a fact that's just the way the math pans out so please as you look at this stuff and you hear our highlights understand that our highlights that we share with you come at a cost and these this students deserve the very best that we have to offer and i don't want to see any of that put at risk i understand we all have budgets i understand we all have financial obligations but part of living in this community is the financial responsibility that we have to well over 4 000 students and that number will continue to grow and grow each year so again i appreciate the information you shared tonight i appreciate you getting out in front of it well in advance of it becoming problematic all right that seems
026like a perfect segue into our next report um you know it is exciting to be a member of the north ridgeville community and to experience the growth that we are you know we are seeing here and you know that has been happening since the moment i walked in the door and we know that we have needs moving forward and we know that the students are continuing to join us here in north original city schools but in order to make sure that we can accommodate our students and families and our community it is necessary to hire staff and so i would like to take this opportunity to turn it over to mr david fritt who would like to introduce our first round of staff members um in bulk that we are looking to bring on board
027with us here for the 21-22 school year mr prick thank you superintendent so i want to start by thanking our retiring teachers today um i think mrs casario said 200 years worth of experience leading us collectively and that's going to be hard to replace you know what encourages me is the quality of people that we're bringing into the district as we sit here i know some of them are here with us tonight so i appreciate their time uh for joining us tonight so as superintendent said we have about 13 people joining us new tonight um i anticipate that when we meet next month we'll have a list probably of symmetra similar statue not statue stature um to work through so just some of our new folks and some highlights that they bring with us um
028at the district level we have marissa walters joining us marissa was selected to be a school psychologist for the district she currently holds that position with the ravenna city schools we've got emma mackey joining us emma is selected to be a speech and language pathologist for the district she's currently an early intervention team leader speech language pathologist at the family child learning center at akron children's hospital so we look at eclc we've got michelle janoski joining us michelle was chosen to be an art teacher at the early childhood learning community she's currently a middle school art teacher educating students at the old brooklyn community middle school with constellation schools liberty elementary has kayla hopson joining us kayla's a currently a student teacher here at the academic center she'll be graduating with a bachelor's of science
029in education with a mild moderate from clinton state university she'll be an intervention specialist at liberty elementary and most exciting for us and i think kayla's on our call is kayla's an nrcs graduate so she's coming home to be with us our hta we've got three people here with us tonight from there all of them will be at our 712 high school program we have natalie alfano natalie is a graduate of kent state university this past spring and natalie will be our one of our math teachers with a major in integrated mathematics um john hode is with us john is currently an english teacher at the design lab high school in cleveland he'll be teaching english 712 ranger hi-deck academy and gabriella shepherd gabriella graduated from kent state university this spring bachelors of science and
030education with integrated science and an emphasis of life science so she'll be with us at ranger high tech as well hoping to round out that uh seven through twelve program um nrac three four we've got a couple of familiar faces that will be with us we've got kayla clem kayla has spent this past year as a lead replacement substitute doing one of our online courses for fourth grade so kayla will be joining us as a full-time staff member and joan gill joan has been with us over the course of the school year as an intervention specialist at the academic center our lead replacement and she'll be joining us full-time as well so welcome to both of you the academic center we've got three people slated for for the five eight end of the building we've
031got reina uh rena is an art teacher at john f kennedy elementary in maple heights and she'll be joining us to be in our key trick five eight academic center alyssa thomason alyssa is grant or just graduated from the ohio state university with a bachelor's degree in education she'll be a seventh grade math teacher in the fall and sarah kasich sarah is currently an intervention specialist at north olmsted middle school um and has been in education for about six years now she'll be an intervention specialist at the academic center at the private field and then lastly at nrhs we've got amanda zukansek joining us amanda has six years of experience as an is and graduated from wittenberg university in 2010 and she'll be an intervention specialist at our high school you know what really excites
032me about this group coming in is sitting through the interviews and knowing how many we've done you know i really feel like we've got the best of the bunch out there we've got a bunch of bright um educators joining us hard-working educators that i think can take us to that next level the other thing i think is exciting is you know we've kind of got a range here we've got people coming to us just out of school and we've got people that got three or four or five years of experience who have seen some things and can bring them in to better the district so all in all i think we're in a great shape and i'm looking forward to working with each of these people over the next months and years so welcome everyone
033we're glad to have you as part of our team welcome welcome you're one of our new hires if you could just give us a wave so that we know that you were with us this evening the fonts on your names is not very kind of these old eyes so you're welcome as mr print said thank you to all of our new staff members and that's most of you and definitely look forward to starting in a mostly normal year and getting to into your classrooms and seeing all the great things you're doing so uh have a great summer and we'll be excited to see you in in august and that president concludes their superintendent awesome thank you very much all right we'll move on to announcements does anybody have any announcements this evening okay cnn here's
034an opportunity for hearing of the public if you have anything you would like to address the board of education now's your opportunity please state your name and your address keep in mind we allocate three minutes uh per individual up to 30 minutes so that we conduct regular business and get through this in a timely manner so with that then we'll start off with every person who is uh who is with us here in person and then we will go to our remote uh participants if they would like to make a comment to the board so with that we will then uh turn it over to and i'm sorry i did not have you okay you might if i take my mask off it's incredibly warm in that thing uh my name is brendan mccool i
035live at 38733 sugar ridge road um mr president i actually really appreciate you saying that the board wants to be candid and up front perfect uh because i understand that this is the public comment portion it's not the public board conversation hours so not a lot happens here uh but that's why i am here uh i want to know why no on the board will email me back uh i understand that i asked a very specific question but it was very straightforward uh the way i see it nobody wants to answer my question we want to hide from it we want to obfuscate answers it would imply to me that somebody has something to hide so i'm going to ask it again here can you tell me when you emailed the board of education they
036emailed everybody uh last i believe it was thursday um if not it was friday email addresses you sent me all the emails that were listed on the board of education website i have received no thanks look forward to hearing your question for the first time well i apologize my question though i have is that uh can anybody explain to me how the diversifying and education uh profession grant is not the proverbial campbell's nose under the tent for critical race theory it's analogs or anything of that nature normally we don't engage but let's be very specific especially after the assumption thrown at us that we didn't respond to your email and no shape or form is a critical race theory um and my question is is other than the board have you reached out to anybody
037in administration to get details as to the diversity training because it was readily available oh yes uh actually i reached out to miss vance i spoke to her in a series of emails the last one was april i believe 22nd i was told i would have an answer within a week i had to go through one other person and uh never heard anything i assumed dealing with other cities and stuff in the past it was probably a lawyer or somebody who said don't give anything out to the public but that's just an assumption i don't know um still waiting on that email it's been three weeks uh looked at what the city submitted to the states i actually have a public records request in right now for all the documentation that was submitted yesterday so
038i realized there's a 72-hour window for the district to get back to me so i'm i'm waiting expectantly for that uh but actually the grant itself didn't bother me uh what what the issue was is when i started seeing what the other school systems were putting in for and all the hidden key phrases and stuff diversity inclusion all that all those all the keywords for it it's it's all the critical race theory stuff as i heard you say before the meeting today the 1619 project uh that's obviously you know that's been pretty much debunked across the board that it's just made up so well anyway i don't want to get into policy debates i don't want to get in any of that here uh i just want to know how come i'm getting that's all
039i just would like to a little bit of back and forth here sending emails you know you haven't received any of your emails sir email right now sir and i have not received can you tell me what email address that came from i cannot if you can just have your site same email uh it's brendan.mccool gmail.com again getting back to a lot of assumptions that have been made sir um regardless of what's being done in other schools i worry about north original city schools and the curriculum and the opportunities being afforded our students and coming here loaded for bearer based on assumptions first and foremost benefits absolutely nobody uh and in order to have a rash conversation that starts at a baseline of mutual respect and not assumptions i understand there's a hypersensitivity to what's
040going on politically in a politically charged environment in this country right now but again starting at that baseline without having the information and i do apologize if you haven't got that in a timely manner and that will be rectified immediately but come in here again loaded there looking for something that you don't even know exists based on what you've found out about other school districts or what you've heard through the grapevine through parents and other school districts is you're relevant to what we're doing here we will continue to provide curriculum that's solid reasonable and fact-based like we always have we will continue to vet all curriculum that we roll out to our students and that's the baseline that's where you start you start by reaching out to the people that have those answers and again
041if you haven't got that in a timely manner which i'm not aware of one way or the other based on the fact that none of us have received your email and this stuff happens so i can appreciate the the fact that three of the board members immediately were able to pull up their emails and verify that they indeed have not received it i'm asking for a fair opportunity to get you the information as to what we are teaching our kids i know the superintendent reached out to you introduced yourself and there's my understanding that your kids will be coming to north ridgeville city schools yes the diversity training in itself is not a bad thing if you know what the diversity training is and we will get you that information and again this is based
042on a hypersensitivity to the politically charged environment in this country where very few people are making any effort to get the facts and the information prior to engaging people and that's part of the problem but sir you started off with accusations and assumptions and i'm saying oh no there was no accusation or assumption i just want to know why i won't get it i will tell you my email you did say that you haven't received you accused us of not responding to you sir when we did not receive anything to respond to uh i have sent this email at um i'm sorry your name you're miss mccarthy i sent it to you on may 13th at 5 29 pm be happy to look again but i have not seen and i did not get an
043error kicking it back saying it was not received so that would suggest that there's possibly a problem either with gmail or the school right i just will get you that information and again if there was a lag in getting that information to you i apologize but that's where we start right and you can follow up with those people and you can get actual information as to what we are doing here in north ridgeville city schools again completely irrelevant to what any other district or school district is doing in this country i don't have any ability to affect change in those districts i have no authority in those districts we can only speak to what is here so we appreciate it normally our engagement would be we will get to the person that has the most
044accurate information and that's where i'm going to leave it at this point as we have your concerns we will make sure somebody follows up with you again in a very timely manner and get you the answers to your questions okay that's all i ask as i said thank you okay at this time then we will uh go to our remote participants to see if there's any comments that they would like to make to the board of education we are giving the ability to unmute your microphone at this time okay mr mcmillan has his hand up go ahead mr mcmillan uh let me see here we go i just wanted to welcome all the new teachers to north bridgeville welcome to the family i am the association president so i'll be looking forward to talking meeting
045with you and congratulations on landing a job as early as you did in the summer so that you guys can relax so glad to see you all and look forward to meeting you in person all right well that looks like we do not have any more people who would like to address the board so we're going to turn off the ability to unmute your microphone and i turn it back over to you president thank you so we'll move right into the consent agenda it is recommended that the board of education approve the agenda resolution as presented that'll be on page 14. move by ms tamira second by ms is there mccarthy discussion this evening this is tamira yes mrs mccarthy yes this is yetzy mrs saxon yes mr vodka yes all right we'll move on
046to the finance audit report miss mccarthy thank you mr vodka board we have two items for consideration this evening another finance audit report it is recommended that the board of education approve the financial reports for april 2021. it is additionally recommended that the five-year forecast as presented by mr passini be approved this evening i moved to approve the finance audit report in one reading movements mccarthy second by mr tamira is there any discussion i just want to thank mr presidio for the um in-depth uh presentation of the five-year forecast and your diligence and and making it as complete and whole as possible i'll call please this is my heartbeat yes this is demoniero yes this is yeti mrs saxon yes mr vodka yes hey we'll move on to the education report miss tamira thank you
047we have one item under the education report i recommend that we approve an agreement with space bound solutions for the purchase of 1 350 lenovo chromebooks this purchase will allow us to replenish our supply of student chromebooks and ensure that devices are here in time for the first day of the 2021-2022 school year and move to approve the education report in one reading second miss tamira second by ms saxon is there any discussion yes can we um discuss why we're approving this now and how this is a plan for purchase that will come out of the next fiscal year that's correct yeah so we're approving it now so that we are able to provide an intent to purchase a letter of intent so that we there there are no delays right now there's an eight
048to ten eight to ten week delay uh delivery for these chromebooks this is part of our technology rotation plan um that has been uh incorporated into the forecast so this is something that we had planned on um but we're having the board approve it now um the the purchase the expenditure will not actually take place until we get into july and enter into the new fiscal year um but we wanted to have the board approve it so that we can provide that letter of intent so that we are able they they the vendor is going to hold these chromebooks for us um so that uh like i said roll call please this is tamira yes mrs saxon yes this is etsy mrs mccarthy yes mr vodka yes moving to the human resources report saxon yes
049we have several items in the human resources report two certified staff resignations two support staff resignations one certified staff contract one supplemental contract one support staff contract two special project supplemental contracts one support staff leave of absence i moved to improve the human resources items in one reading mccarthy is there any discussion roll call please mrs saxon yes mrs mccarthy yes mrs yetzy mrs tamira yes mr vodka yes all right um before we answer into an executive session i apologize typically i don't get had under the collar too often but in defense of miss vance seeing how her name was mentioned specifically this woman is beyond committed to this district and the well-being of these students and anything and everything she does is in their best interest as well as every other administrator teacher custodian
050bus driver that works in north ridgeville city schools and i understand the political environment that this country is currently in but it has no place without having facts and information and where myself i tend to lean one way or the other on these things if you're going to base it on fact base it on fact and the fact that tonight we had information that was shared that wasn't of that nature we encourage public participation we encourage transparency and we encourage you to reach out to our school district but please do it in a manner that's conducive to a conversation that's valid in the best interest of our students and based on fact we will stand by our decisions we will readily share how we came to our decisions and we will do that and continue
051to do that so i couldn't leave this meeting in good conscience knowing full that well that one of our staff members was mentioned by name and let it lay uh her character and integrity did not deserve to be questioned this evening and i have no doubt that the information that this gentleman was looking for will be readily available and to anybody else that has any concerns about what your children are learning in north ridgeville city schools reach out we're open to these conversations we're not afraid of them and we will engage you and we will give you the facts again i apologize if i came off anything less than professional this evening but i don't and i will not condone attacks on our staff in the integrity in north original city schools so i'm done
052with my grandstanding everybody enjoy your evening and 647. this is tamira yes this is mccarthy yes this is jesse mrs saxon yes mr vodka