001I'd like to call the May uh Northwest Board of Education meeting to order. If we could please rise and say the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance 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. Thank you. Roll call. Mr. Tohill here. Mrs. Barky here. Mrs. Gear here. Mr. Wy here. Mr. Gindlesburgger is absent. That's correct. Okay. Any additions or deletions to the agenda? So the only change that we had was splitting 10 and 11 on there just for the interest of correct. Nine and 10. Nine and 10. Y correct. Okay. Any questions on the agenda? All right. Recognition, Sean. Okay. We have uh several people we like to recognize for as retirees. And I have
002an update to go over. A couple things here real quick. Uh I don't know if anybody's here, but we have we have gifts. Uh the principles. Maybe take those for our retirees. I can get those to you guys if unless they're here. But we'll announce their names. Nancy Christie, uh Michelle Denkins, Kimberly Head, Kathy Middleton, Cheryl Nash, and Donna Pel. We want to thank them for years of service here with Northwest. Are they here? They're not here. Okay. All right. So, congratulations to them. Uh just a couple things for uh an update from me. Just two things really. Uh actually well two things for me and then we have two other things to go through with uh Senor Brady and um and we have Mrs. White here as well. First thing I want to talk
003about is our strategic planning update. I just want to thank all the administrators who have worked to get our district to meet the majority of our goals uh over the last three years uh our with our strategic planning. Next year we'll we'll take uh we'd like to take the school year to develop uh new three-year plans along with vision statement and mission statement. We tend to use our same process as before. We'll interview uh interview school board members, faculty and staff. We'll talk to uh parents. We'll talk to uh community members, administrators, and students. And we'll put out a survey for everyone who's interested in completing our goals for the future. So, uh this will take place over the majority of 2526 school year. We'll we'll get that together. will come through all the data
004collected to look for overlapping uh items and uh develop our goals like we did a few years ago and then these goals would be in place from uh until the end of the school year of 2029 which sounds like a million years from now just a few. All right, so we're excited for that. So the the next thing I just want to keep talking about this the high school edition uh we are meeting twice a month with Regency construction Harris day for plans uh on the high school edition which includes as you guys know the annex renovation wait room resting room connected to the high school storage room for the arts and a greenhouse as part of our science curriculum. So we've invited uh Harris State to present the plans. Uh hopefully they can be
005here for the June board meeting. We'll also be presenting uh I'd like to put some kind of presentation together to talk to booster clubs, uh other coaches that we haven't met yet, Rotary, you know, other community leaders, just take it around through the community and show what we're what we're going to be working, what we have been working on. And I mentioned all this before, I just want to include this again. We plan to break ground sometime in the late this late summer, early fall. If the weather is cooperative, we it would we would be done uh by the early winter. No, we start breaking ground on the early winter. If the weather is not cooperating, if um we hope to complete the project by the spring of 2027. So, it's going to take about
006a year, more than a year, a year and some months to get that done. We've also been replace uh talking about replacing the turf at the stadium. We've been going around and around with this. Do we do this after the projects have been completed or do we do it all at the same time? And we've been talking with a company just to come out assess the field to see if we can go another year with if we can go into 27 with the turf. Do we need to need to change out? It's getting pretty long in the tooth. Um so we're still debating that. It might make more sense for us to do it all at once. do the all the the renovation and just kind of rip the band-aid off and and have it
007be crazy for a few months and and then move on. But we'll have more on that over the next couple months throughout the summertime. Okay, that's what I have from my part. Uh next, I'd like to hand over if I can introduce Mr. Tosh. Uh and you wanted to talk a little bit about Senor Brady and her students. Yeah, I'm not going to steal Mrs. Brady's thunder at all, but I will introduce Megan Brady. She is our Spanish teacher and she is going to recognize some of our high achieving high school students. Hola. Hola. Hola. Okay. Um I'm just here to say I have some amazing amazing kids who have worked really really hard and I want to bring to your attention. Oh, that's fun. Is that coming to you up there? Yeah. Well, that
008wasn't in my my learning session today, so sorry. Um uh okay so we have two awards that we're giving out and there are a lot of names here which is a fantastic thing but I just want to give you a little glimpse of what it means because I feel like when we see a lot of names we're like oh that's an easily attainable thing and it's really not. Okay so our first one is the global seal by literacy. This actually has three levels. So our bottom level is our functional fluency and then there's another one that's working fluency and professional fluency. Um, and then the one after that is the Ohio Seal of Literacy. So, so slow. Oh, this screen is going to mess up all my pretty pictures. Okay, this is from our actual
009is our national organization. So, when I say we have kids in Spanish, too, that could mean that they're here or that could mean that they're here. So, to put them on a level playing field, we assess their proficiency across all four skills, reading, writing, listening, and speaking on this scale. Okay? Okay, so they come in here and then they grow and grow and grow and grow. When they get to this intermediate mid, they are eligible for the global seal and functional fluency. Um, they have to take a uh there are a handful of tests. The one that we use is called the Apple test. This is something that is not only national but internationally used across the across the world um to assess fluency. It's not me saying they're here. It's something that's bigger than
010me, right? They have to again get this in all four skills. We have 15 amazing [Music] kiddos with me here. Jeff, do you know the answer to this? Do we know how to fix this? Do we know how to make them not green? You're looking good, though. No, it's not. Sorry. I'm sorry. I thought you might have spot. Okay. So, I have a handful of these. We have a handful of these kids here. If you're here, guys, please stand up. And this is our global seal with slide one. We've got two. So, we have Hayden, Emily, Miam, Addison, Amelia, Lillian times two, and Luke. Couple of them are here. Our second slide. Same thing. Global seal. Marina Lincoln, Kellen, Kaylee, Ben, Candace, [Applause] Braden. So, when they achieve this, they get the cool medals that
011some of them are wearing. Good job, guys. They also have like a unique serial number on their certificate that will let them put this in their Common app if they're looking to go to college or if they're already in. It also goes to their LinkedIn account. So, it has like this actual legit thing that proves that they can speak, which is another another fun little addition. Our next one is the Ohio Seal of Literacy. You probably know now that graduation requires however many seals. I don't know how many seals you have, though. Two. Two out of 12. Okay. Some of them, not going to lie, super easy, right? Like, you show up, you're breathing, we're good. I'm sure it's a little more than that. The seal of biiteracy was maybe before the skills for graduation
012were a thing and it is a lot more rigorous. So here they have to get to this intermediate high going away which is here again across all four skills. Um just as an FYI it's 0.5% so less than 1% 5% of Ohio graduates attain the seal of literacy. Like this is a huge thing right? So that includes not only kids like ours that are English speakers that are learning another language, but also kids that speak another language at home and then also have to prove their English fluency as well. Biiteracy, right? English and another language. Still only.5. So this is huge. This year we have eight of these guys. Emily, Lillian, Luke, Marina, Braden, Kaylee, Ben, and [Applause] again, thanks so much for coming. Please go back to your track banquet. Thank you so much.
013Um, okay, that's all I have. I just wanted to share our our great achievements this year for Spanish. [Applause] Okay. I have uh Mrs. White from the Lions Club to present their character award tonight to two of our students. There she is again. Yeah. I need to know if Jackson is here. He is. Okay then. Okay. He's right behind you. No, we're good to go. It's a busy time. I can really appreciate that. Trust me. I'm Deb White. I'm the chairperson on the Canal Fault Lines Club scholarship character award committee. And it's my pleasure to be here this evening to present a $100 character award to two amazing Northwest seniors. Both these students were recognized recently at the honors program for their academic achievements as well as their extracurricular activities. I will have both students
014come up come forward after I tell you a little bit about them. You probably know by now that since the Lions Club motto is we serve, this is the primary primary quality that we're looking for when choosing both our scholarship and the character awards that are chosen by their teachers based on our criteria. There's never a lack of good citizenship at Northwest High School. And in fact, the same can be said for our second, fifth, and eighth grade kids as well. If I may add one fun fact, which I told a couple of you already, um, out of the 12 fifth graders, uh, chosen by their teachers this year for good character, four of them were students of mine at three years old at Discovery Time Preschool. I taught there for several I taught there
015for several years after I retired. So, this, of course, was a very proud moment for me and an embarrassing moment for them because we had to pose for pictures together. So now without further ado, our first senior character award this evening is going to Jackson. Jackson graduated. He had a 4.0 GPA, achieved a 31 on the ACT testing, which put him in the 97th percentile. In addition to his academic excellence, Jackson was a member of speech and debate, and excelled in sports with four years in track and field and four years in varsity soccer. Our next senior character award goes to Jada Sparks. Jada was a member of pep club, league, and student council. An honorable student graduating 11th in her class. Jada was enrolled in college credit plus classes and varsity lettered in basketball,
016track, and golf, which I am now calling a variable sports trifecta for. Both of these students were described as exemplary by high school staff. Their commitments to academic and extracurricular activities speaks for their maturity, reliability, and sense of responsibility. I think it's quite accurate to say that we are all inspired by these incredible students. And therefore, at this time, I would like to present the 2025 Canal Holton Lions Club Northwest Senior Character Awards to both Jackson and Ja. Yay. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you, student achievement. Now's a time when we recognize all the wonderful things that are going on in our schools. It's hard to believe it's May already. The school year's over. We're going to start with the high school. Seniors in the windown of the school year had lots to celebrate in the
017month of May. They got to experience first senior signing day where they were recognized for their future plans whether it be in college, an apprenticeship, a trade or the military. The senior's honor banquet is next where local scholarships were handed out. Then there was a senior walk that culminated in a wonderful moment with kindergarteners on the football field. that I don't know if you've seen the video, you're be in tears. It was amazing. So, take a look at that. Then there was the senior cookout and the senior parade and the senior sunset. All of these uh and culminating with their uh commencement ceremony on Monday, May 19th at First Christian Church. It was a memorable evening and it's my favorite time of the year. The senior class was truly amazing and they will be missed.
018They have made Northwest very proud in the middle school. Congratulations to our state qualifying power of the pen creative writing team members who competed at Ashlin University this past Thursday. Eighth grader Joby Timmons and seventh grader Sarah Cochran made our school and community proud by achieving this great honor. Congratulations also goes to the team's coach, Mrs. Alicia Everly. Our middle school track team had an outstanding season which culminated in five different boys qualifying for the state meet which was held on Saturday, May 17th in Columbus. Eighth grader Braden Bole placed 17th in the high jump, clearing a height of 5'6 in. Also, the 4 by 800 team of Roman Veron, Lucas Wells, Logan Tur Turboich, and Colin Harris finished 13th. Congratulations to these outstanding athletes and to our coaches as well for a great season.
019and our middle school students are really excited about the end of the school year and will celebrate the last day with some fun events. The sixth and seventh graders will participate in field day and the eighth graders get to visit Sluggers and putters for their final day. Thanks to Mrs. Sinsky, Mrs. Koker and our PBIS team for planning these activities. Stinson. Many afterchool clubs are finishing up extensive teachers and aids have been volunteering to keep their time volunteering their time to keep the students involved in a variety of clubs that appeal to their interest. Mrs. Woos, the gifted teacher, ran a chess club. Mrs. Jenkins, the librarian, with the help of Mrs. Carrick and Mrs. Bruner, are finishing up the second year of drama club, and that's been very, very popular. Mrs. Carrick, the school
020counselor, and Mrs. Jenkins also continue to run the Rocks program for our fifth grade girls. Mrs. Stewart, our playground supervisor, and Mrs. Budell, um, the fourth grade teacher, ran Girls on the Run. Girls on the Run includes girls from all grade levels and they worked on a community project with Canafalton Library as they were preparing for their run on May 3rd. Mr. Hornik, the district's behavior coach, and Mr. Morris, a fifth grade teacher, started a new boys club similar to the Girls Rocks Club. They meet weekly to help boys build a strong foundation for life, starting with real life skills as a base and providing stability and structure while reinforcing resiliency and strength. As the year wraps up, the students will be enjoying their themed spirit days, track and field activities, tie dying, kickball, outdoor
021reading, movies, and their many PBIS awards and experiences. And last but not least, at the primary, the kindergarten classes went to the Akran Zoo as an extension of their science um unit on animals. Miss Oser, the art teacher, organized an art show at the beginning of the month. Every student in the primary, had their work on display. Families got to see the exhibits as well exhibits as they were posted around the building. And second graders enjoyed a presentation by Mr. Rick Woods and the speech and debate team this month. Mr. Woods will have many team members when this group reaches high school. And that's it for the year. Thank you. Okay. Recognition of visitors uh to determine agenda related items in which to discuss. So far I have one. Any others? We'll start with um
022just a reminder uh two minutes for everyone who wishes to speak. Um I try not to interrupt people um because I think it's important that people talk but um you know if we get to the point where it's going on a little bit long I am going to have to to ask you to uh wrap up. So uh first Sarah thanks for the opportunity to speak. I printed some things out for you. I saw that you guys are discussing the cell phone um policy today and SB 158 recently passed the Senate. It's in House committee and that needs to uh be voted on there and then signed by the governor, but it is getting a lot of traction so it's worth considering. And here's an extra for anybody that wants it. Um, I don't know
023if anybody had the opportunity to look at SP 158 yet, but I ran out of some ink, so I printed out the three pages with changes. So, I'm going to apologize for that. Um, so I just wanted to highlight it because, you know, it has the um phrasing the cell phone ban. Uh, the verbiage is from my perspective a little weak and I so I just wanted to read it just to bring you guys up to speed on it. And you can see it on page three. Um at the top is is underlined with the amendments that are being done. Um the policy shall prohibit all cellular tele telephone use by students during the instructional day except as described in division and then it goes on and then if you skip a paragraph you see
024that there's underline there with medical conditions being able to get um a physician to. So anyways, I just wanted to make sure the board was aware of that because this policy isn't this law if it gets passed isn't like, hey, you got to turn in cell phones at the, you know, at the beginning of the school or do pockets or it it's pretty vague and really does leave a lot of leeway when considering coming up with a new policy and I I read the policy in the handbook currently and I seriously think you could switch out period for day. We check the box. Um, doesn't have a lot of teeth in it either. So, I just wanted to point that out of what it actually looks like right now, assuming that it does get passed
025and amended in the House. And then I'm not going to read it, but uh our organization Ohio Monster Liberty, we have a legislation committee. Uh we are opposed to this bill and we sent this did a press release and sent it to all the House reps. Uh if you get an opportunity, please read through it. It kind of gives you a different opinion and perspective. And these are chairs like me throughout the state and we were unanimous on this. So, we all came together and put together our thoughts. So, it's worth a read. Thank you. Thank you, Sarah. Thank you. And yes, that's been on my radar. Um especially because it's a really short implementation window. Yeah, it the former version of this had a much longer ver longer window. This one is September 1st.
026So, it basically would go into effect and then you have zero time to uh change policy on that. Thank you. And then we have um both Ryan and Kimberly or Kimberyos, is that right? Yeah, Keros. Whichever one of the two of you uh would like to speak first, I'm fine with that. She's gonna speak first. Okay. Thank you. I have a question about the IEP and social graduation um the IEP goals. If a student doesn't reach the IEP goals, are they um pushed to graduate? Do they get the certificate of completion upon graduation to go to like Orchard Hill with the special needs kids? I'm not sure. Say that one more time. I'm sorry. With the special needs children, when graduation comes about, do they get the certificate of completion? Where is it? Hold on.
027by the by the school and then collected after uh going to the secondary program. I mean Lauren, I I'll hand that to you. Are you talking about the diploma or the diploma is held? It's an actual diploma or is it just a certification of completion? Just diploma. You cannot if you take that you've received a diploma, you are saying at that point that you no longer want your student to receive which very appropriate public education. So if he has the certificate of completion, he can continue on with his education. Yes. I'm not sure. That's what we need to make sure. Okay. All right. So the reason I'm asking is these two were handed off. One certificate of completion. When I sat in on the last IEP meeting, I was told by every staff member that
028dealt with special education, he wouldn't get that until he completed his time at Orchard Hill because the school had to sit on this because he is still a Northwest student just attending another program. This what he got collected walking across stage like every other senior. But here's the funny thing. You know how I got these? They weren't even handed to me. They weren't handed to my son. They're handed to a another set of parents that I know very well that are uh that have a child in special ed education. Um I've been getting a lot of back and forth stating this kid's reached his milestones. He's reached his goals and then I'm talking to some other people and then I even asked for testing. Got some push back. No, I want to test it because
029they that state law, they they completed this uh the testing for the student myself. But at the last part of the the meeting, the last IEP meeting, I didn't get any of those tests presented to me until everyone left that room. I had one individual in there open a booklet up. Here's what you have. Here's what your child accomplished and you can do. It's not much. 2%. 2%. And then I'm being advised that well, you know, he's aged out. He needs he he can't stay here. He needs to move on, which is in theory not not the case because by law, he can stay in this school for 21. So, I'm having a lot of problems having communication issues, even my wife calling the principal and not getting a return phone call. So, I'm trying
030to figure out how you guys handle special education and how can we actually, you know, find out what the truths are and how things should be handled. He's he also was embarrassed at his graduation. I don't know if the board members have heard about the issues with, you know, Yeah, you have. Okay. Well, I'm glad you guys were aware of it. So, not only was did that happen, but I have a total other set of parents handing me these things when I was told something else by your school. But nobody seems to know what policy is, what procedure is, or how things should be handled. We're all done talking. Doesn't put a whole lot of faith in Northwest School District special education. Okay. No formal apologies, no nothing. Just Okay. I'll I'll get with you
031here. Give me a second. You and Larry can can get together to discuss. Yeah. Of course, we apologize. I I'm not I I just don't know enough about that. You got handed the wrong documents. I apologize. I can do that. That's the problem. There's too many cracks. Nobody understands or knows what's going on. I I know that we have the staff, the teachers, and nobody knows what's going on or how things should be. And that's a big problem, right? And we will contact you at a at a at a time when we can sit through and talk and you can lay everything out for us. Everything that's been missing, okay? I promise you that. All right? And I will make sure I will get back with Sean and follow up and make sure that you
032know the meetings do happen and that we follow up accordingly. Okay, that is all of the agenda item discussion that I have. Switching out nine and 10. So we're going to superintendent recommendations. Okay. Mr. Carris, I'll be in touch. Okay. Yes, sir. Thank you. All right. Um, we'll move on to um we are going to flip just because Steph has a 5-year forecast to go over and that could take some time. So, we thought we would do this first. And uh you know, if everyone wants to stay, you can. You're more than welcome to, of course. All right. So, we'll move on to appointments and assignments. We have six people we'd like to recommend. I have to say four of those six are Northwest grads. I was very happy for that. All right. Uh, first
033one recommendation to approve hiring Zachary Katrone, intervention special 8ighth grade math teacher, Northwest Middle School, zero years experience effective August 18, 2025. Recommendation to approve hiring Amber Lance, fourth grade teacher from uh at Stinson zero years effective August 18th, 2025. Recommendation to approve hiring Kyle Luring, seventh grade teacher of Northwest Middle School, one year of experience, effective August 25. Recommendation to approve hiring Brian Motiel, dean of students, Northwest Middle School, effective August 18th, 25. Recommendation to approve hiring Cooper Ross, sixth grade science teacher, Northwest Middle School, one years one year of experience effective August 1825. And recommendation to hire uh to approve hiring Mackenzie Woodram, second grade teacher, Northwest Primary, three years of experience effective August 18 to 25. We need a motion. Some moved. Second. Discussion. Those of you that are here, can you
034stand up, please? Thank you. Um, we appreciate you. Round of applause. Some of you, some of you I know, some of you I've met tonight for the first time. Um, and it's it's always great to see um alumni come back. That's for sure. Okay. Welcome. Any other discussion? All right. Roll call. Mr. Tohill? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wayne? Yes. Recommendation to the following people be employed on one-year limited contracts for the 2526 school year. Hope that's okay. Okay. Uh, need a motion. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wy? Yes. This one. Okay. Recommendation. The following person be employed on one-year limited contract beginning with the 25 26 school year. That's Mrs. Gandlesberger. She was separated. Yes. To keep it uh
035to keep it real for Mr. Gandlesburgger, but he's not here now. So we could have included her. We just didn't change it. Okay. Motion moved. Second. Any discussion? What is the role? What's her role? Kindergarten teacher. What's her Oh, what does she teach? All the other ones that said tutor, teacher. Um, yeah, she's a kindergarten teacher. Yeah. Yeah. Jeeoff and I were discussing that beforehand recommend just so we have it. Yeah. Uh you mean as far as what position is that? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Toill. Yes. Mrs. Barky. Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes. Mr. Wyan. Yes. Recommendation the following people or person be employed on a continuing contract for the 2526 school year. This Mr. Dy and Mr. Kirk ride. Need a motion. So move. Second. Discussion. What's the difference between what is a continuing contract?
036Um it's a permanent contract. Um you have to jump through several have to be here so many years, have a master's degree. There's there's a number of things you have to do. be evaluated as such. Any discussion? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Chill? Yes. Mrs. Barking? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wyant? Yes. Uh, recommendation the following persons be employed as tutors on one-year limited contracts beginning with 2526 school year. You can see those folks. Need a motion. So move. Second. Any discussion? Those are very various school buildings. Yes. K through K through 12. All four. Roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Barkley. Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes. Mr. Wyatt. Yes. Uh the next one, recommendation of the following person not be remployed for the 2526 school year. Uh it's those four. I just want to clarify that.
037That's a federally funded tutor. Um, I feel like we say this every year, but I want to make sure you guys understand that um, they know they're being they're being uh, they're not being remployed. We will bring them back when the federal funding money comes through and hopefully in July, sometimes it's been as late as August, but we'll we'll bring them all back and they're aware of that and happily so I might. Need a motion. So move. Second. Um, discussion. Yeah. I'm sorry. I You say it every year, but I still ask every That's good clarify. Roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Barkley? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wy? Yes. Next, the recommendation the following classified persons be employed in one-year limited contracts. This will be classified as both certified. And there they are. all
038those folks. You need a motion move. Second. The only thing I saying that too is if we could get on those what they'll be doing. It's a little bit easier to read through for us. Crazy. You You mean what? Rolling. Yeah. Okay. Same as Okay. Yeah. can do prevents us from asking that kind of question. Okay. Um, any other discussion? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Barky. Yes. Mrs. Gearart. Yes. Mr. Wyatt. Yes. Okay. Recommendation the following. Classified person be employed in continuing contracts for the 25 uh 2526 school year. Need a motion. So move. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Tohill? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wyatt? Yes. And why we have some, not the others, but we'll get we'll get the roll down next next time. The reason there's
039a role there right now in this group is they probably hold two positions. Yes, that makes sense. Thank you. But still be we'll do that next time next year. How about that? All right. Uh did are we ready? Yeah. Okay. This is for extended school year. Uh recommendation to approve Molly Bayhouse speech and language pathologist for July and August. Recommendation approve Pam Kurs intervention specialist. Uh recommendation to approve Barb Newton regular ed teacher. Uh, recommendation to approve Rhonda Ozer, teacher for extended school year. Recommendation to approve Jennifer Turovich, intervention specialist. Recommendation to approve Beth Fight Master intervention specialist. These would all be effective for June, July, and August. Need a motion. So moved. Second. And these are as needed, correct? Okay. Any other just my clarifications? These are folks that work through the summer in
040support roles to kids who need help. Yes, that's exactly right. This kind of explains everything. That's okay. Anything else? Roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Sparky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Want? Yes. Next. Next recommendation of the following administrative supervisory contracts be approved. Andrew Kaufman for three years. Joshua Hirschman, three years. Larry Tosh, three years. Lauren Willis, three years. Need a motion. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Thank you for the four of you for everything that you do and all of the other admin people. uh as well. Um I'm assuming there's some differences in contract length. They kind of rotate through them year by year. Is that right? Yeah. Different timing when they get hired on that. Anything else? Roll call. Mr. Tohill? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wy? Yes. Uh next
041recommendation the following person for summer intervention tutoring. Uh these three have done it. I think these three have done it for a number of years. Is that right? Yes, ma'am. Need a motion. So move. Second discussion. Okay. Roll call Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Sparky. Yes. Sorry. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes. Mr. Wyan. Yes. Uh we are on B. The next page. salary and position adjustments. Vicky Henkins from building a to Northwest Middle School to primary library aid at Northwest Primary effective August 18th. Emily Harer from second grade teacher at Northwest Primary to first grade teacher at Northwest Primary effective August 18th. Caitlyn Hudson from part-time playground aid at Stinson to full-time aid at Stinson effective August 18th. Melissa Janice from bus driver route number four to bus driver route number 10. Also effective August 18th, uh, Tiffany
042Jeff Jeffers from health and life skills teacher at Northwest Middle School to intervention specialist at Stinson. Effective August 18th, Ryan Jones from 7th grade, teacher at Northwest Middle School, a strength and conditioning teacher at Northwest High, effective August 18th. RKI from instructional aid at Northwest High School to instructional aid at Northwest Middle School. Also effective August 18th, Megan Makito from tutor at Northwest Primary to Tutor at Northwest High School effective August 18th. And Luke Nettle from third shift custodian at Northwest High to uh second shift custodian to Northwest High School effective May 31st. Need a motion. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes, Mrs. Barie. Yes, Mrs. Gearhart. Yes, Mr. Wyan. Yes. Resignations. Recommendation to accept the resignation of Megan Brady, Spanish teacher at the at the high school effective May 30th.
043Recommendation to accept resignation of Michelle Dinkens, math teacher at the high school, due to retirement. May 30th, recommendation to accept the resignation of Amy Freeland, Guidance College of High School, effective May 30th. Recommendation to accept the resignation of Mackenzie Scott, intervention specialist at the primary school effective uh July 31st. Recommendation to accept the resignation of Lisa Sinsky, demon students in the middle school effective June 2nd. Recommendation to accept the resignation pre previously listed as retirement of Sheila Sims bus driver effective May 31st. Need a motion. So moved. Second. It now becomes increasingly hard for me to keep it under wraps. So far, uh, I have not heard that anybody knows that you're leaving. So, it now becomes really hard now that it's in here. Um, but I will allow you to make your announcement. Um,
044for everybody else, um, we appreciate your time that you've spent, uh, with us here at Northwest, especially those retiring. It's obviously all of our ultimate goal is to get to that point. Any other group? Any other discussion? Roll call. Mr. Tohill? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearberg? Yes. Mr. Wy? Yes. Uh for letter D, youth runners club recommendation to approve a co-ed youth runners club next uh next cross country season for grades fourth, fifth, and sixth with volunteer Joshua Conrad. I just want to point this out. He's doing it on his own time, right? You might see very young kids running around here. So, I thought it might be a good idea to board approve this so you have an awareness of it. But, uh Coach Conor is doing an amazing job in the classroom.
045He's coaching, uh high school kids, and now he's doing this. It's um it's a testament to his time. He puts in a lot of time. They all do. He does a lot. We're excited about this program growing. Need a motion. So move. Second. Any discussion? What's the um co-ed runners? Do they have other other sports have the same thing that they run against each other or they have meets or how do they or I don't think so. I think Yeah, I think it's just training. I can't imagine. Does anybody know? Are they doing anything? It's just just for their fun of it just to get them moving. I think it's a great thing. Most of the runners are in track and cross country. Next, Mr. Hman will have kindergarters running. There you go. Roll call.
046Mr. Toville? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wy? Yes. Uh, letter E. Certified sub recommendation to approve Tina Gilbert a speech and language pathology substitute for extending your services as needed during June, July, August. I don't know much about this. I can you tell us? Yeah. Tina is an employee of Southgate, one of the out of district placements that we work with and she works onetoone with our students each in home over the summer. I think it's six sessions. That's all it has needed as well. Need a motion. So move. Second. We have a student that does need the need. Is that what you said? Correct. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wy? Yes. Uh, where are we? Let letter F. Amendment to negotiate agreement uh
047with Northwest Teachers Association. I if I can explain this be. This is recommended to approve the retirement incentive. amendment from April 1st to June 1st. We did this just because STRS decided to uh to change the the ruling to to when teachers could leave with full retirement. Uh that was after the April 1 deadline. So, we thought it would be a good thing to and we sat I sat down with uh with Regina and and we I don't know, we both agreed this was something that can be done easily. uh we we worked through with uh our school attorney and and came up with amendment that would allow teachers. So actually on impact one that that uh but still um we wanted to have that extended date just to be fair to our teacher in
048case they wanted to retire. Need a motion. So move second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Chroill. Yes. Mrs. Barky. Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes, Mr. Wyatt. Yes. Letter G. Lunch and breakfast prices uh for the 2526 school year. You might notice the um recommendation to approve the following lunch and breakfast prices. Everything is skyrocketing. We're doing our best. In fact, I give a lot of credit to Deb, our uh um our food guru. She's worked really hard to keep the prices low. Uh we did a comparison um around other school districts of our size and their prices were still below, which I was happy with that. We did um she we did have to raise the prices. We did it for a quarter from 325 to 350 uh at the primary extensive but we are keeping
049the prices the same at the middle school and the high school breakfast as you can see will remain $2. So there is a slight change of quarter but uh it could have easily gone up. We didn't feel comfortable doing that. I wasn't going to ask you to to approve that. We wanted to this up. We're still lower than I don't want to say all but most of the surrounding school districts around us. Need a motion. So moved. Second. Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Chill? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wyatt? Yes. Uh, are we on letter A? What is my audience here? Okay. Student fees for the 252 school year. the recommendation to approve the following super fees uh for the 2526 school year. They have not changed from from last year. They
050remain the same. Need a motion? Some moved. Second. Any questions or comment or discussion? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Joeill. Yes. Mrs. Barky. Yes. Mrs. Gearhard. Yes. Mr. Hawaii. Yes. For uh letter H, the approval of electives curriculum. It's it's that year to uh to do this. As we cycle through each recommendation to approve the purchase of the social studies curriculum for the start of the 25. It's not it's not it's just electives. That's a typo. It should say electives curriculum. I apologize for that. I'll probably change that. Oh, yours is then I have an old one. Okay. That's when we caught it. So elect this curriculum for the 2526 school year. I apologize for that. Need a motion? Move. Second, questions. Sorry about that. This is the one that you had discussed last month, correct?
051Yes. And I had a couple questions, so I thought I would clear that up for you. Um, first thing I did is Julie caught last time that I had the band stuff on both high school and middle school. So, I took it off the high school. That's why there's went down. The middle school looks higher because we put the entire band stuff on the middle school. Um, having talking talked with Steven, most of those instruments will be used in that building. So, that's why we put them there. The other reason that that one is considerably higher is we're adding another STEM course at the middle school. And so it was expensive to get all of those materials for that STEM course this year. So that while it's wonderful for our kids, that's always an expensive.
052Had we not had those two things, they all would have been about the same amount of price. So, but it's considerably under budget where we thought we were going to be. Um, we're ready to go and start submitting all that stuff this week. The only thing that could fluctuate is anything that's coming from Amazon. We don't have any control over that when everything else is quoted quotes. So things are good for the end of June. So they're locked in. Hopefully the prices have got better. What? Hopefully the prices have gotten better. When I checked yesterday, they were not better. Great. And I patted it. I was hopeful. I didn't tell Steph how much I patted it, but I patted it. I anticipated nicer to come back and say, "Oh, I spent less than I need
053more." So was the new STEM class design model. Thank you. Okay. Any other discussion? Okay. Roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Barky. Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes. Mr. Wy. Yes. Letter G. Recommendation to approve the type four uh which is payment in L of transportation received parents names. Uh this is a recommendation to approve those contracts for the 2526 school year as presented. This impacts 36 students last count um at the cost of about not about exactly $583.86. Is that right? Sounds right. Need a motion? So moved. Second. Any discussion? These are all students going out of the dis out of district for school. So that's 36. What's the And they go beyond the the the limit of where we can transport. So it's unlike a statemandated dollar. How does that get arrived at? It's a
054state number. Yes. Okay. Ed is very specific distance too, right? I mean, it's 30 25 30 30. Yeah. 30 30 minutes longer. Yeah. Anything else? All right. Roll call. Mr. Tohill? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wy? Yes. Letter Handbook recommendation to approve the student handbook for the high school, middle school, primary stints, and then the athletic handbook for the 25 26 school year. We I we had that presented. We took that off to uh tweak that. I appreciate uh the principles coming back and uh didn't have the exact same language, but did tweak it so it's it's in the same ballpark. Need a motion. Some move. Second. discussion. I looked them over. Looked good from from my side. Saw the changes. Um I do like when we have longer documents like that,
055having the everything highlighted for the changes. Yeah, we appreciate that. So much principal vote. Yes. Thank you guys for for doing that. Much appreciated. Roll call. Mr. Chowill. Yes. Mrs. Barky. Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes. Mr. Wy. Yes. Uh okay. So letter L, we have the OBC contract recommen uh recommendation to approve the tenative agreement between Northwest Local Schools and the Northwest OBC for the school years 20 uh 25 26 26 27 27 28. Um just wanted to thank the OBC leadership Amy Johnson, Judy Yoast, Tia Satderfield for their work. We appreciate everything they did. Great leadership shown in that group. Um and uh as you can see, as you saw, a very fair contract and uh we were happy to to work together. They've never done it before, gone through that process. It was a
056little rough at first, but we got to a point where we uh we had a a very good conversation about the direction of OC. So, we were we were happy to get this done. Kudos to them. Need a motion. So, moved. Second. Any questions? Obviously, we're reading I understand what it is, but maybe for the three people who actually watch this. Can you please describe what vote C is? So, we're not using industry speak. You know what the exact I don't need to know like the Oh, who encompasses? Yeah. What and what it stands for? Iowa Association of Public. There you go. Thank you. Who encompasses this? It's uh custodians, our cooks, um secretaries, bus drivers, aids. Aids, non-teers. Yes. And who am I missing? Is that it? Maintenance. And maintenance. Oh, I said Yeah.
057But yes. Uh the difference. Yeah, that is difference. Everyone except teachers and administrators. How about that? Any other questions? All right, roll call. Mr. Tohill. Yes. Mrs. Sparky. Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes. Mr. Wy. Yes. Okay. So, policy approval. We discussed this last time. Letter A resolution to adopt special education model policies and procedures and sample board policy. That's uh addendum number eight. I know I gave you I did the online and gave you a copy of that that model. all 82 pages of it. Need a motion. Second. Discussion. The only main change on it was the the name of the state board of education, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, right? And there was that was the main yes changes in it. Yeah. Roll call. Mr. Chillhill. Yes. Mrs. Barky. Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes.
058Mr. Wyatt. Yes. Letter I. Donation uh recommendation to approve a donation of $500 from the monitoring the future survey conducted by the University of Michigan. University of Michigan uh to the middle school. So, we want to thank them for that. Do not need to vote on that. Correct. Do that's We'll go ahead and vote on it. Just make sure I think normally we do. Yep. Okay. Second motion. So moved. Second. Any discussion? How' this come about? I mean, what is it from University of Michigan? I'll I'll hand this to Mr. Ramos. Would you imagine waiting for this? I'm sure you know anything. Thank you for asking. Monitoring the future survey is a 50-year-old survey that has obviously been around that long and the purpose of the survey is to survey young people and they do
059eth and 10th grade throughout the country. Uh we were invited to participate and so we chose to. eighth graders took a survey over the course of about 45 minute period and this survey has resulted in such wonderful things in societies like removal of uh tobacco products and alcohol products from print materials that's obviously happened long ago now but because of the answers of students in their faucet and attitudes toward use of those types of substances that's one example what the survey resulted in so it is something that has been done for a while and our students just answered those questions we asked parents if they were okay students participating and those who were uh took part in that survey and as a reward. Thank you for being part of that. They donated that to our
060school. So that was pretty amazing. Great. Have we participated it in that in the past? No, never that one. We've done um a couple others. The state of Ohio has done the middle grades longitudinal study which is a national study we did probably about five or six years ago. So every now and then these opportunities come forward. Any sticker for us to contribute to the studies that are going on to try to make society a little better. What is the money used for? We'll probably use that for PBIS. Uh which would be some of our systems we put in place to reward positive behaviors for students. Any other questions? Roll call. Mr. Tolhill? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wyant? Yes. Uh so the last thing I have um before we go there,
061do we want to release the folks that have been patiently sitting on you guys? I definitely make sure joining us. Yeah, we can do that. Yeah. So, thank you for those of you that came new hires tonight. you're more than welcome to to stick around for the remainder of this, but we understand that um this is not everybody's cup of tea. So, thank you for for coming. If you wish, you can head out and thank you for coming. Congrats. Step Okay. So we will now. Okay. So we will move back to treasures report because we switched 9 and 10. Um so step first item I have is recommendation to approve the minutes from the regular board meeting on April 28. Need a motion. Second. Any questions or comments? Roll call. Mr. Mr. Joe Hill. Yes.
062Mrs. Sparky. Yes. Mrs. Gearhart. Yes. Mr. Wyant. Yes. Okay. So, my next item is recommendation to approve the five-year forecast as presented. Resation. Sure. Okay. All yours. So, addendum number one in your packet is the five-year forecast. Um the first page is a summarization uh similar to what we had in November followed by the forecast itself, the notes to the forecast and then just some pie charts to represent that show a representation of both the revenues and expenditures for the 2425 school year as we're projecting um where going to end up for the year at the end of June. And the very last page is just um just kind of a summarization if you will of the major portions of the expenses uh for the district. So the items there make up about 95% um
063of the total expenses for 25 um obviously salary and benefits being the largest items uh on that. So I will give some highlights of what you will see on the forecast. Um did an update in May to project out where we felt we would fall in 25 and then did some updates to years 26 through 29. Um you'll see that we have an operating surplus for 25, 26, and 27. And then um we're projecting some operating um deficits in 28 and 29. Um mainly due to expenses increasing more rapidly than revenues increasing. Um, our revenues are projected out for five years in a similar fashion to have as we've done in the past. Um, property taxes for 26 um have built in the second half uh updated amounts for Stark County um which we began
064to collect in in the spring of this year. And so that will hit uh the first half of 26 as well. And then after that, we just projected out uh historical increases as we've done in the past. Uh quick update, tangible personal property tax, which is actually the line for the pipeline revenues. Uh there was a court case was settled. We did receive some back um payments as well as some adjustments to the fees that they assessed with those in the past as well. Um estimating that we're going to receive about $340,000 a year moving forward. Need to get some clarity around whether or not there's some depreciation on the value of the pipelines that would then result in some decreased um revenues uh associated with that. income tax. We projected out, you know, looking
065at historically how much we've increased. Um unrestricted grants and aid is the line is the state foundation line. We've left that flat as we have in the past. Uh considering that Northwest is a district that's on the guarantee, I don't see any increases in the foreseeable future. And honestly, um, with some of the language in the budget bills at this point, I'm not so sure that that's not going to decrease. Um, the budget bill is now in the Senate. I believe there's hearings each day this week around that. Um, early June, they'll create their finalized version and then it'll go to Boy, I'm losing it. It's um the Senate and the House will then have to come together to reconcile their two versions. I can't remember what that's called. Um but then hopefully by the
066end of June, they'll have a bill um finalized that's an agreement with with both sides of that. But again, uh, as we've discussed in the past, the concerns are around, foundation monies, um, property tax collections, um, and related homestead and mold back revenues um, from the state which are tied to property taxes. Um expenses we projected out salaries and benefits based on the approved contracts with both NTA and now Oopsy. Um other expenses we estimated out about a 3% increase in expenses on other lines. What you're going to see um starting in fiscal 26 is the capital outlay line changes dramatically. So this is a big change in what how we're presenting this forecast. We've talked in the past about the fact that capital purchases can can make your expenditures go up and down each
067year um kind of skewing your trend. um by pulling out capital expenses. Um it would be more of a pure operating budget and your trend line would be um again just a better representation of the operations of the district. What we're doing then down on line 5.010 01 is we're proposing to transfer out money into a newly created capital projects fund separate from the building additional capital projects and we're going to fund that. We're going to look out 10 years um around buses curriculum technology and buildings and grounds. Also, we want we're proposing to create a a new fund which will bring forward in June. Um, which would be severance payments. And so that also can skew our trend line. Years when people retirement, we have those payouts and then other years we don't. So
068setting aside some monies in in um in a special fund for that as well and then those expenses would come out of that fund. Um, so what that will do, like I said, is just help help us get a capital budget going. Um, what this also does is it will reduce our cash balance down to below the cap that is being proposed at the state level. Was it 30%? So, right now it's proposed at 30%. Um, this would get us down 28%. What it does do though is we're now longer in alignment with our cash reserve policy that our district has passed. Um, which says that we need to have a minimum 30% of 303%. Right. Okay. Um, and so I put in my notes that I, you know, once we see what's going on
069at the state level, I think we should get back together. Um, we're going to have to talk about this if we need to change our fund balance reserve or or what we need to do based on what they eventually end up passing. Um, I think I'll stop there and see if you have any questions. It's a lot. I know. So, my understanding is separating into these separate funds allows us to play by the rules that they're setting up while still keeping us comfortable enough to know that we've got money in reserve if we correct. So, it's it's a way for us to color inside the lines and still Yes. be safe. Right. Correct. and we can make these. So, we're showing this on this document um which is I believe being utilized by the legislature
070when they're I mean this is a data point that every district has. So, they're going to utilize this. Um we'll come back in June with actual resolutions to create the new funds and make the transfers. Uh with these new funds, we can transfer out of the general fund and then say if we have a project that we've slated for 2028 and we decide we don't want to do that or we don't need the amount of money we thought, we can transfer back to the general fund. Yeah. It's not like we're never going to just stop buying buses. We are probably never going to stop by. Okay. So, need a motion. I think you were gonna say something. No. Second. Okay. So, secondary to what you were saying, Sean, you and I were talking earlier today
071about a couple of discussion point options with legislative and local leadership. um if you want to talk about the the first one that what we talked about today. So, we had the opport we're going to meet with uh legislators just to just to get um just have the opportunity to connect with them um and tell our side of the story, you know, in a very non-confrontational way. We're not looking to go in with guns blazing. I mean, we're we're looking to it's a handful of school districts in Stark County right now just to sit down and have conversations so they know this is, you know, this is what we're about and this is where we want to go moving forward and and just uh sometimes I I feel like the the personal part of it
072gets gets lost a little bit, you know, and and people look at the 5-year forecast and think, okay, let's make decisions based on that and it's going to be a good opportunity for so you know and it's not I just found out about this in the last couple We're going to be meeting with them. So, uh, I mentioned that to all of you. If anyone's interested in attending, we're going to be doing that um, Monday. Is that Monday? June 2nd. Y. And then I had seen that the mayor from Canton was on WHBC I think this morning talking about having a roundt with public and school districts um down at the Kan Civic Center. I think it was the 10th starting at 6 to discuss the same same type of thing. I thought that was
073really good to have somebody who's completely outside of the schools, you know, a mayor jumping in and saying, "Hey, we need to do something um on this." So, um I if I'm right on the date, um I'm going to try to make it down to that myself. Um I'm also going to try to make it to the federal. It shouldn't be an issue. Um but, you know, I'll send out the information to you guys. I also sent a link to his what he when he was talking um on on the radio um because that was good it was good information that he had as well. Do you have anything else? I do not. Any other discussion points on this? Yes, sir. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Tohill? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wy?
074Yes. So, okay. Now, we go just like seven pages back to 21. Yes. Okay. Okay. So, if I can introduce this discussion point. So, we have a lot of policies. We're going to be looking at a lot of I mentioned that before that the the majority of them are are tweaking uh changes changing some of the language. We'll have that ready for discussion in June to be uh approved uh with your approval at the July board meeting. Um, we wanted to make sure we had this in place to discuss our cell phone policy. We have, as you know, we have to have something in place. States asked us to have it uh complete, but so we discuss it now and have it done in June. Uh, that we've been asked to have something ready on
075July 1. So, uh, and I just want first thing I want to say, I just want to thank Mr. Tosh and his high school folks for, uh, developing the idea of of building resilience in kids. I do think we can still move forward with a with a with a lot of that and maybe all of it as time goes by. We're looking at our our cell phone policy possibly and I'll just read it and and we can we can discuss it from there. you have copies of this. Um, but part of it is taken, most of it's taken from uh OSBA's policy manual for cell phones to support school environments which students can fully engage with their classmates or teachers. Instruction, the school board has determined the use of cell phones by students during school
076hours should be limited. The objective of this policy is to strengthen the foundation of knowledge and foster a sense of community within our schools. If we can move to the use of cell all the applicability the policy applies to the use of cell phones by students while on school uh property during school hours. The policy may slightly vary from building to building. Of course the use of cell phones. We are asking you to approve the idea that students are prohibited from using cell phones at all times. There are exceptions. We mentioned that before. Nothing in this policy prohibits a student from using a cell phone for a purpose of documented in the student's IEP developed under chapter and you can see the rest under the Ohio Revised Code. Student may use a cell phone to
077monitor or address a health concern. Of course, for cell phone storage, students shall keep the cell phones in a secure place such as their lock or closed backpack at all times. Uh just to be clear, the cell phone use would be prohibited. So, they'd be able to have it on them but not turned on, not in use. We feel like we have the kind of kids that um we can guide them um introduce expectations um have teachers on the same page. I I know it's more of concern the high school and the middle school than maybe it would be for uh Stinson or the primary. Um the prog we would implement some some kind of some type of a a disciplinary action plan. That would be progressive in nature and we would have uh steps
078with violations of the policy to where students may lose their phone to uh um but that would be pretty under you know under a third or fourth or fifth or sixth offense and we would uh of course progress in that discipline. So we have that discussion now I I do like this policy. Um, we do have to have something approved so we can, you know, we can discuss it now. We can talk about it individually uh and then bring that back to the table in June, but ultimately we're going to have to approve this cell phone policy. I like I like this. I think this is uh speaks to the problem. We put the expectation in the kids uh in our students hands and and all the kids their hands, but the expectation will be,
079you know, we have they can keep their phone, but they have to have it off at all times. It's as simple as that. And there'll be u disciplinary action taken if that that rule is broken. Yeah. And it would meet the uh new law state the new state one that not not the new one that is getting implemented in June but the new one that Sarah printed out. it meets that that qualification too because we would have almost no time to implement and and adjust to that. So, it's probably about um the best we're going to be able to do at this point and stay compliant with and we discuss this too. I think the I think the thing to just keep an open mind with that you know as the year goes on whatever
080that policy ends up looking like that uh you know maybe we revisit uh some of the things that uh that we had discussed earlier here and with our uh administrative team any questions okay so we don't need to vote on that uh recognition of visitors for any non-aggenda related items Okay. So, we are going to um move to executive session. Um as you can see on the agenda, we are not planning on making any um any votes or any changes after that time. Um we just need to meet for the reasons uh to discuss public employment. Okay. We need a vote to go into session. I can never remember. I don't think so. Okay. So, you guys are welcome to Yeah, we do. We do. Okay. Yep. So, I need a motion. So, move second.
081Okay. Mr. Joe Hill. Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearart? Yes. Mr. Wyan? Yes. As I said, we don't plan on making any um any votes afterwards. You guys are more than willing are more than welcome to stay in here um and wait if you would like. Um other than that, we will Yep. All right. It is uh 8:53 p.m. I'd like to I need a motion to bring us back into regular session. So move. Second. Got that? Yep. Okay. And I need uh roll call. Roll call. Mr. Toell? Yes. Mrs. Barky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. Wy? Yes. Then then I need a motion to adjourn. So moved. Second. And roll call. Mr. Chillhill? Yes. Mrs. Sparky? Yes. Mrs. Gearhart? Yes. Mr. W? Yes. Thank you. Thanks. Let's get down here.