5/12/26 Board Meeting

001Good evening. Welcome. This is Tuesday, May 12th. It is our regular board meeting. Roll call, please. Mr. Kujak. Here. Mrs. Cecilich. Here. Mr. Salazar. Here. Mrs. Kovach. Here. And Mrs. Dolan. Here. Please join me in the pledge. 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. I'll get them. This is a meeting of the Board of Education in public for the purpose of conducting the school district's business. And it's not to be considered a public community meeting. There is a time for public participation during the meeting as indicated in the agenda. And a reminder that anyone who wishes to speak tonight should sign in on the podium. The mission of the Buckeye Local

002School District is to empower students to excel in a highly competitive society. We'll begin with the approval of the board meeting minutes. We're asking for the report approval of the minutes of the April 14th regular and April 20th special meetings. I so move. Second. Any questions or comments? Roll call, please. Mrs. Salazar? Yes. Mr. Kujat? Yes. Mrs. Cecilich? Yes. Mrs. Kovacic? Yes. Mrs. Goldman? Yes. We're now taking a look at approving the consent agenda items. Um a lot of our items are usual items for this time of year, so we have a consent agenda. So, I need a recommendation that we approve the consent agenda of April Help. Oops. of May 12th. Mhm. So, moved. I'll second. Any questions or comments? Roll call. Mrs. Kovacic? Yes. Mrs. Salazar? Yes. Mrs. Cecilich? Yes. Mr. Kujat? Yes.

003Mrs. Goldman? Yes. At this time in the meeting, it is time for public participation. Mr. Donnelly, if you can check who's signed in for us. What? Keep it Oh, it's All right, thank you. Okay. Just do it. That's all right. So, first first we have John Demers. Just do it. Okay. Good evening. My guiding principle is all people matter and are due honor and respect. Over the past several years, I have quietly observed several keyboard warriors and special interest groups disseminate words and comments that are decisive in nature and seemingly not grounded in fact or are intentionally manipulating the facts to serve their own selfish objectives. These same individuals have also defamed members of this board, superintendent, treasurer, other employees of the district, and now even a prospective employee of the district outside the privileged

004environment of a public meeting. For the board, superintendent, and treasurer, this criticism he be expected. To compound this matter, one of these keyboard warriors is sitting before us as a board member. These concerns have been raised by numerous members of the community through different channels. The board has responded by seeking legal counsel who provided a memo with the subject navigating social media as school board member best practices, risk awareness, and liability mitigation. To the best of my knowledge, the board president and district administration has done everything possible to educate this board member and warn of the potential liabilities. This board then passed resolution 2026-03-10 titled a resolution clarifying authority of individual board members disclaiming association with personal social media accounts and establishing guidelines for public communication. Thus, attempted to protect the community's resources and this

005and distancing the district from any potential litigation. Unfortunately, this board member has interpreted the adoption of this resolution as a license to disenfranchise the community through viewpoint discrimination. And continues to behave in this unscrupulous manner under the misguided premise that her words and actions are protected by the First Amendment of the Federal Constitution irrespective of the oath she has taken to serve our community. I'd like to draw your attention to the last clause of the First Amendment. The people's right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. It appears the time has come for the people to exercise this right. The nexus of the people exercising this right and a father of five standing before you today is the board member has now targeted educators outside of the privileged environment of a public meeting.

006And this behavior will have a direct impact on my children's education. No one will work in such a toxic environment where they will be subject to to such incoherent ramblings of dubious facts on Facebook simply because a single board member did not get their way. And in time this will erode the quality education system that have been built and is highly regarded and valued. Mrs. Sillick, you alone through your actions and words can prevent the forthcoming litigation. You are an elected official who has taken an oath to represent the best interest of our children. It is time for you to rise to the occasion and act in a manner worthy of your calling. All people matter and are due honor and respect. As my elected officials, I request that you take this into consideration when

007conducting yourself in the name of our community. Thank you. Madam Chair. Yes. Just one rise to a point of order. It does say that the public comments that was directly addressed our members, so maybe remind the public of that we can we address the board president or secretary. So just confirm that. Did you hear that? Yeah. It was intentional that her name showed up at the end. All right. >> I just wanted to let remind the board that Thank you. Um next speaker Beth Nance Mr. Nance >> Dr. Nance. Sorry. Yeah. It's Calvin Ebers, Calvin Ebers. Is that okay? Yes, good evening. Good evening. Thanks for having me up up here. I I really appreciate uh what you guys do. And I want to first and foremost thank all the board members. Uh I only

008know one personally. I I'm not allowed to say the name, right? Or Right. But uh I appreciate what you guys do. Thank you for that. I just wanted to tell you I've uh lived in uh the Buckeye School District since 2011. I also have five kids, five daughters, lovely daughters. Three of them went through the school systems here, and they recently graduated. Yeah. But uh you know, I really I I love this community. I love the school district. Uh a little bit about my background. I was born and raised Columbus Ohio, and uh we had neighborhood schools, and when I went to schools with my three brothers, we were all headed towards one high school, and then a thing called desegregation came out. We had a thing called white flight. Half my friends moved to

009the suburbs. Why? They wanted a better school system than what was in their situation they had. Reason I tell you that is because it's that's the basis of my experience that schools go through a lot of changes, but they do good things, and it's cuz of the people who are the teachers, uh the board of education, uh all working with the community to have pride in their schools. And I really enjoy and have pride in Buckeye. You know, the first uh school board first school board meeting I went to was when one of my daughters, Madison, got uh school student of the month. And I really loved what you did to that. It made her feel special. It made us feel special. Put them in a situation where they were recognized for doing a lot

010of hard work. Uh the one thing, however, that surprised me is is when I got older, we moved to specifically to good school systems, right? And there were common grounds on all these school districts. They the community pride for the schools, passing levies. I was very shocked when I came here that said in the 15 years I've lived here we've only passed one levy for Buckeye schools. And seeing the schools, uh you know, I I and and I'm so glad that that uh you guys took the actions you did to work on a new school. My My students will not benefit from that, my my kids, but other students that I see that live in my neighborhood well, and I appreciate that. Uh the common ground I saw I moved to St. Charles, Illinois, in

0112001, uh worked in downtown Chicago. St. Charles school's one of the top school systems around. Uh some common grounds on that, pride and active support by the community, and parent volunteers. What do we see here? Parent volunteers. Uh you know, they I participate My kids participate in the sports here. They participate in band, vocal music, uh choir. The the theater department's insanely good. And and I see the volunteer work by the teachers that run that and the parents that come in, including my wife that did this. And and our stage is is really bad. >> Sorry, you're saying some really nice things, but we have a time limit. Okay. Um would you like a second time? Oh, I didn't know. What's What's my time limit? Um 3 minutes. Oh, I didn't know that. I'm sorry.

012That's my >> may have a second 3 minutes if you choose. >> Yeah, can I have a second 3 minutes and I'll get right to the point. But uh I did There were There were the things common were highly active community support, student-centered decision-making by the school board. So, at St. Charles, act their number one rule, active volunteer acts in the best interest of the students. Number two, provide sound stewardship to the community and the committed resources that they do. Pickerington schools, which I did. Number one, to provide engaging, innovative, and holistic experience that empowers all students become responsible future ready citizens. So, the bottom line on that is always put students first. Students are the board's primary duty and I encourage you to continue to do that. And and I appreciate what you've done.

013I appreciate the teachers and the staff that work in here. And I'm so glad that you made the decision. You didn't The school board did not collect property taxes. They benefited from the property taxes, which all school systems do. But the school board's not responsible. I don't believe they should be You guys the people uh you should spend it on the best interest of your students. Number one and foremost, give them good products, good schools, good good teachers, good staff. And and that's where I really appreciate what you're doing and I want to thank you for that. I think it was a good decision to build the school and always there on the side of the students in the best interest of the students. That's it. I'm sorry for going so long. Thank you for

014listening. We're going to move on now to the informational items from the superintendent. Yes, Mr. Alkire, good evening to everybody here at the board. Good evening to everybody who is being quite appreciative of being here uh tonight. Let's start off as always with student celebration. Always the best part of the board meetings. I believe everybody believes that. Uh let's start with the high school administration. Mr. Alkire, good evening. >> [laughter] >> All right, good evening everybody. Uh it is my privilege to recognize Buckeye High School senior, Breanna Cash, as the Buckeye High School student of the month for May. At Buckeye High School, our mantra is raising standards and exceeding expectations. Bree lives that expectations Bree lives out that mantra every day in the way she treats others. Her standard is kindness and her expectation

015is to make people feel valued, respected, and supported. In a world where kindness is not always the easiest choice, Bree does it naturally and consistently. Whether she's in the classroom, at work, cheering on the sidelines, or volunteering in the community, Bree brings positivity, compassion, and genuine care for others. She has balanced academics, leadership, and work responsibilities with maturity and grace. Working in local restaurants since the age of 16, but also serving as a varsity cheerleader and senior captain, and as our class president of class 2026. I read your speech today. It's spot on. >> [laughter] >> Bree leads by example. She encourages others, lifts people up, and creates a sense of belonging wherever she goes. Outside of school, she volunteers as a youth cheer coach and serves as a role model for her younger siblings,

016demonstrating the same patience and kindness kindness that defines her character. What stands out most about Bree is the impact she has on on people. Her warmth and positivity make others feel comfortable and appreciated. And that is truly a gift. Bree plans to pursue a career in nursing, a dream that she has had since she was 6 years old. It's easy to see why that path path fits her so perfectly. Nursing requires compassion, nursing requires empathy, nursing requires dedication, which are all qualities Bree demonstrates every single day. Bree reminds us that exceeding expectations is not always about awards or recognition. She needs that one and those. Sometimes it's about choosing kindness, treating others with dignity, and showing up every day with positivity and respect. Her impact on our school community has been lasting and meaningful, and

017we are incredibly proud of the example she sets for others. Before I let you off the hook, typically what I do for students of the month is I call them into my office and ask them a couple questions. Since you've been gone for the last month, who is it what made you do it? So, you ready to be on the spot? Just a second. Favorite teacher counselor? Mr. C's. Okay, Mr. C's, why? Um I thought he was a really good teacher. He's very like I think I just like the way that he taught everything. It was like easy to understand and it was like felt like the first time a teacher taught in a way that like I truly understood everything. Favorite class you have ever had? Uh You're in my office now. Tell me

018right now. Favorite memory from school? Like just kindergarten through this moment right now. My gosh. I remember my elementary principal. >> [laughter] >> That's usually I can hear him over elementary school. >> [laughter] >> Got anything? We can move on. Do you want to move on? It's just like eating out with my friends like after cheer. And like your graduation speech says elementary keep that in mind. Yeah. pretty quick. Easy ad read. Shout out to someone special to you. My mom. All right. Please join me in congratulating our Buckeye High School Student of the Month for May, Free Cash. >> [applause] >> You ready? Yep. Give us a timing. Thank you. That's a good start. That's my good speech. That man. Faith. Good evening. It's my pleasure to officially recognize Camille Shea as April Student

019of the Month at Buckeye Junior High School. Camille was nominated for the recognition by Miss Raby who spoke very highly of her character and the positive impact she has in the classroom. In her nomination, Miss Raby shared, "It is my pleasure to recommend Camille Shea for Student of the Month. She comes to school each day with an consistently positive attitude and a genuine eagerness to learn. She embraces challenges in her work and is never afraid to take creative risks understanding that growth comes from trying new things and pushing yourself beyond your comfort zone. She demonstrates integrity in everything that she does, making thoughtful choices even when no one is watching. She is always willing to lend a helping hand, offer encouragement, or share ideas in a respectful, constructive way. In addition to her strong character,

020she's an exceptionally talented artist who approaches her work with dedication, creativity, and pride. Outside of school, Camille enjoys staying active and creative through gymnastics, golf, and others. Camille shared that she is especially grateful for teachers who have inspired her along the way, including Miss Nunn who made history exciting, Miss Hammond Bourne who helped her confidence and find her voice, and Miss Rigby who has reignited her passion for art. As she looks ahead to high school, Camille is excited to join the girls golf team and embrace new opportunities and experiences ahead. Congratulations Camille Shay on this well-deserved recognition. Everyone at Buckeye Junior High School is proud of you. Congratulations. >> [applause] >> Thanks for that nice title. We can get it. >> Yeah. Good job. Thanks. Good news. Church shots. Congratulations Camille Capps. Who else can

021we do? Hello. All right. Ready? I was really excited to have Brooks come up here today. I kept asking him if I could embarrass him. He's like, "No. No." And I was like, "We'll find something to embarrass you." He's like, "No." He's just calm, cool, and collected. So, we'll we'll see what his mom wrote about him and what his teacher wrote about him and see if we can find something a little bit embarrassing. So, uh Brooks is a respectful and compassionate student. He consistently looks out for others. He pays close attention to what is happening around him and often steps in to help without being asked to. He completes his work responsibly and always gives his best effort. Like, in class, he demonstrates patience and self-control, calmly waiting his turn and following the expectations. He

022also takes initiative in keeping his space foster deep by picking up items he sees around him. His positive attitude and genuine smile make him enjoy having class. He is very deserving of being recognized as student of the month. And that was from Mrs. Jamison, his second favorite teacher. Um Hello. Thank you for reaching out. I think you guys are awesome. It was much to our shock and surprise to get the letter in the mail that Brooks was selected for student of the month. He's been through a lot in the past year and a half with some medical issues and I'm sure it makes us all feel good to see that he is highly regarded at Buckeye and chosen for this honor. Brooks doesn't like to miss school and works very hard to make sure he's

023getting his work done and doing the best he can. He may not be at his best some days, but I know he puts that aside and always focuses on others and making sure that they are okay. He's a He's a very go with the flow kid and an old soul. There are many things he likes. I'd say currently at the top of the list are antique cars, clocks, and trains. And apparently, he also likes ceiling fans. What I told you today. And uh some 70s and 80s pop rock and progressive rock, Come on. playing the trumpet, he hopes to [snorts] be in the uh marching band when he is older. His iPad, birds, traveling, and he's been to 46 states. I asked him earlier which was his favorite. He said Georgia and he wants to

024move to Georgia and live in Atlanta when he's oldest. He also likes hamburgers. Apparently, In-N-Out Burger is the place to go with your dear one. So, that was all from his parents and a couple of things. During my interview with Brooks today, we talked a whole bunch about different bikes and we talked a long time about trains. Um which is really cool. He was hoping that when he grows up, he wants to be a CEO of Norfolk Southern. Uh he said work for them and I said why not just take over the company and be the CEO. So, that's the path that we're on right now. So, he he has one older sister. I asked who's smarter, him or his sister. He said his sister, so that was very nice. He said his favorite principal

025I'm back on top. Mr. Barron knocked me down a few pegs last month, but I'm back. Um and his let's see, his favorite teacher Who is your favorite teacher? Miss Spencer, second grade. Uh I think I had it written here somewhere. But, so he has lots of likes and especially the antique cars. The kicker though is I go, "Who is your favorite parent?" He said both. There's certain things he likes to do with mom and certain things he likes to do with dad. Um cooking to checking out cars and looking at the classic cars and things. But, then we got into why he was chosen for this This month was all about integrity. And integrity is when you do the right thing when no one is looking where you keep your word and you're honest.

026Integrity is telling myself the truth and honesty is when you tell the truth to other people. And teaching it to a fifth grader can be tough. We all know what our fifth graders are like. Um a little bit crazy at times, but really a bunch of wonderful kids. When you do the right thing and no one is watching it's simple things like when your parents say you have 20 minutes of screen time and they're in the other room, but you put your phone down or your iPad down or whatever you might be doing because you know that they're trusting you to do the right thing. It's putting the trash in the bin from playground or in the hallway when nobody's around to give you Buckeye Bucks for doing the right thing, but you do it

027anyway. It's completing math problems instead of looking up the answers on a calculator or in the back of the book or in the one of 9,000 apps that Mr. Smith has to deal with daily for looking at math problems. But really at this age it's about choosing accountability over excuses. So you do the right thing, you choose the right thing and when no one's around that's when it matters most. Because we know if you're going to do the right thing now, it's going to lead to do right thing later. Congratulations, Brooks. We're so excited to have you as a student of the month. >> [applause] >> Nice job, Brooks. We're impressed. Okay, Mr. Barrett, good evening. Thank you coming up with you. Thanks. We need help, please. Mhm, just back you up. Okay. Well, this

028is Aubrey Casey. She is our student of the month for Buckeye Primary School. Aubrey is currently a third grade student at Buckeye Primary School. She shared that she loves science in school because it's hands-on learning, especially enjoying the bee unit where she got to taste honey. She also enjoys physical education because she likes to move and play outside and she's looking forward to participating in our upcoming field day. When she's at home, Aubrey enjoys relaxing or jumping on the trampoline. She enjoys when her sister agrees to go outside and play kickball with her. She is very active and participates in both soccer and softball. She lives with mom and dad, sister, dog Loki, and her cat Nuzzle. She shared that it is special to be a part of her family because if she wasn't there,

029her sister would not have anyone to play with. She enjoys spending time with her family including going to the mall and shopping for upcoming special occasions like weddings. Aubrey loves when her mom makes her chicken nuggets and fries and openly shares that she's a picky eater. If she could choose one restaurant to go to, it would be Johnny Rockets Grill to see Faith and I guess you could guess her order. When she grows up, Aubrey wants to be a teacher because she believes she would be good at teaching students or a singer because she's a major Swiftie. >> [laughter] >> We're proud to recognize Aubrey as Bucket Fillers. We've got the honor and the miss with her to get her teacher to talk a little bit about her. Look at this face. I got to

030say, she comes to school every single day with this smile on her face. She walks in, she says hello to her her entire classmates. I love spending the day with Aubrey. She makes my she makes me smile all the day long. Um she is the first person to volunteer to help a classmate and always gives help when she is needed. At the end of the day, she shares with me her after-school activities, books she has read, and the cheers or handshakes she has made up with her other girls. Aubrey writes her name beautifully for a kindergarten loud and with expression, but most importantly, she puts oodles of effort into all of her school work. She stays organized and always asks if she can help in any way. Her favorite word is actually which she says

031every time something clicks for her as she learns a new fact. It's so much fun to watch her face light up with knowledge. She is a lovely young lady who has a bright future ahead of her. I will always be thankful you were in my classroom. >> [applause] >> Sam. Congratulations, Sam. Okay, we have one more award tonight that's not a student of the month, but it is a special award. So he is here and I'll see him on his way up. So we have some some student excellence from the Ohio Governor's Youth Art. That's the greater Yeah, congressional art show. Yeah, and uh Ohio Governor's show. Well, I'm Mr. Alston, your high school art teacher. We have with us Amelia Wible. Um So each spring congressional institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art

032competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation in each congressional districts. Students submit entries to the entries to represent their representative's office and panels of district artists select the winning entries. The winners are recognized by both in their district and at an annual awards ceremony in Washington, DC. The winning works are on display for 1 year at the US Capitol. First place winner this year's Ohio District 7 is Amelia Wible. First time ever in Buckeye District. >> [applause] >> Her work will be exhibited at the Capitol building in Washington, DC with other first place works from other congressional districts in Ohio and the United States. Her work will be viewed by all the congressional representatives, presidents, and foreign dignitaries. She'll also receive a tour of the Capitol, a plane trip to Washington, DC,

033and a hotel room for one night. So, this is an amazing feat in itself. Um I'm also going to talk about the Ohio Governorship. So, the Ohio Governorship um we're actually going to go through a slide presentation of Amelia's work. You're only allowed to enter five pieces total. So, each student in Ohio who wants to can enter five pieces total in our region. Our region's the Northeast Central region. It's the second largest region in Ohio that you can enter artwork into. We get to choose. We pick one that's up for region to decide. Um there were eight, 3 to 4,000 entries in just in that area here in the side. It's a very large district, needless to guess. So, Amelia had four works accepted into the Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition out of the five.

034Only the top 327 works of art out of over 5,785 submissions from all over the state of Ohio were accepted into the show. Her work is currently on display at the Rhodes Tower in Columbus for the Governor of Ohio and all state representatives to see and also the public can come view them, too. So, they're right across from the State House. Um we'd like to go through some of the artwork here. That'd be good for our first year. Wait, I'll jump in. What is this one? >> [applause] >> One. So, Amelia is like also only one of the second students that I've taught since I've been up here at the high school that uh yeah, multiple works of art accepted into the Governor's show. Uh the first piece is Fear No One. It's a Governor's

035Regional and State Award winners. These are all prints. I'll be showing them next slide. Uh Governor's Show, state winner. Moon Gazing, this is an etching, which is also the same as the first Uh Lonely World. Governor's Show, state winner. Uh she also just received this award last week. It's a Young Artist Showcase, Medina County. This is currently on view at the hospital. In Medina. And this is the Congressional Art Show, first place. Governor's Show, state winner. And she also received a Scholastics Silver Key for this piece. This is Snow White Girl. Um I can't wait to see what Amelia's creating. Um she has a several more prints and sculptures she is getting ready to submit for next year. Thank you very much. >> [applause] >> Amelia, are you a junior for A junior. Well, okay.

036Amelia. Nice job. Amelia, while Mr. Z was presenting you, Mr. Salazar asked me to have you stand and say is this something that has happened before? And I incorrectly thought yes, because I knew of the Governor's Ring, Columbus. And then Mr. Z, as you said, never in the history of Buckeye before in Washington D.C. So, never before. That was pretty impressive saying. Tough to follow. Take a break. Is this the time for our break? Let's take a break so we can take some pictures of you. Thank you. I have a couple of updates. Uh just just conversation pieces for the board this meeting. Uh they're all good news. Uh before I get into the actual items at the end. But first of all, I want to thank and congratulate everybody from the Buckeye Education Foundation

037in relation to the the Craig naming run from last Saturday. Always a great event for the Education Foundation. It seems like every year I mean I don't know what year for the third time now, but it seems every year it gets bigger and better. The weather cooperated. So, the Education Foundation all they do is support our students and our teachers and our staff. That's what they do. Um just they're just wonderful people. So, thank the Education Foundation congratulations on on a great event on Saturday. And I know there were a number of people that were here that are here tonight. Hopefully they are Saturday. Um last week on Friday our primary school had your career day. And what a day it was. So, pure excitement. We had well we had a packed packed place. Just

038a a great activity. We had trees given out to all of our kids. We had dogs. We had you name we had it. So, really wonderful career day and nice to see a career day at that level of age of students. >> Let's just say thank you to all the parents that volunteered that came and talked to our kids. It's a really special event for us. And if it's Mr. Davis from Davis Street Farms gave every second grader a tree seedling that was about this tall. Captain In 2 years they've had their own Christmas tree. You have to set up 160. James It's a great It was a great from Mr. Davis. Thank you. There was a little moment of anxiety for Sarah and I though because when we first saw the pictures of the

039trees that Mr. Davis donated from a scale perspective they looked much bigger. And we were a little nervous about how we were getting 160 5-ft trees. They were 5-ft trees. So, he knew better than we did. 3-ft trees. So, so thank you. I was just going to ask you about that because I heard Grace Grace did a great job. Grace the whole of that Oh, Mrs. Wright, you were just fantastic. Now, there was a lot going on on Friday, uh but Sarah led her voting through the activity through through through a lot of stuff going on. So, congratulations to you and your and teachers and staff and especially the students. Um AP testing is still going on here at the high school. Um I know that we had calculus test on Monday. I had to

040just a little birdie tell me that. Uh but we have our AP testing still going on. Uh kudos to our students and and our AP teachers for taking the challenge of not only taking the AP class, but teaching an AP class uh because it is a challenge and it is a it is difficult, um challenging curriculum to teach. Uh so, kudos to our students and our teachers that went through it this week and um continue good luck as as AP testing uh finishes up this week. It's a big week at Buckeye High School. We're going to get into it here about later on. But, uh tomorrow is our final early release of the school year. And the professional development that's connected to our early release tomorrow is a employee a district employee health fair. That

041health fair will be here at the high school starting at 12:30 through about 3:00 or 3:30. And we have all kinds of vendors coming from a health related perspective. It is really important to us as a district that our employees are healthy both physically and mentally so they can teach our kids, right? And this is a great professional development opportunity uh for our for our staff. And you know, kudos to Miss Kashanek who has been the force behind this from a people services student services perspective. Um and really it is really a going to be a fantastic uh event. I I know that Mrs. Lickey and um and Tracy and everybody in the office, Vicky has his out so much uh with this We're really excited about it. And for our our employees that are

042here, I I would certainly encourage everybody to spend some time at the health fair tomorrow. Um it's not a successful health fair if our employees don't come. They'll brag and so so please come and talk and interact and um I I I think there's a high likelihood that some of the donated prizes could be won if you show up to the health fair. So, uh there too each other. Uh my last kind of off-the-cuff comment before I get to the things I put on the agenda for this evening, uh I want to congratulate the Buckeye music department. Last weekend, students and staff were up at the Music in the Parks uh activity at Summit Sandusky around Cedar Point. Uh our junior high school and our high school choirs both received first place in their divisions.

043Uh freshman Ari Thomas received a medal for outstanding vocalists. So, congratulations to uh Mrs. Savage Gordon, uh Mrs. McDonald, all of our vocal teachers and music teachers, and the students for a for wonderful um activity on Saturday. Again, there was a lot going on on campus, off campus last Saturday. Okay, two the items of update that I brought um I'll put on the agenda. I'll start off as usual with the facility update. Uh general facility update since we met last April for our board meeting, you know, the work continues. Um drafts of both inside and outside of the high school, the eventual high school, were shared with Board of Education and also some high school leadership team members that Mr. Snook and his staff um got together last week. And And the goal there is

044we're we're seeking feedback. Feedback can be a critical tool. Remember, everything that we're doing so far is still in draft format. This is schematic design uh and they're still just lines on paper, right? Uh but a lot of work has been done, nothing has been done yet. An example of of feedback, right? We're not I I joke about this, we're not building the school that Chester wants, or Adam Smith wants, or Denise Barboutis wants, or any individual person that's We're building a school that will be innovative for the future, that will be flexible for the future, and that it we are answering what the visioning group want, what the the feedback that we received from the community, from our teachers, from our staff. But an example of we're still seeking feedback. Just um keep What

045was it? Last Thursday in this room, you know, we had an update meeting with our high school Some of our high school teachers. And and one of the areas that that we are really working on is making some special areas in the new high school for a number of our students. We want the humanities wing to have specialized areas. We want our our CCP students to have a specialized um uh experience in the new high school. And also our ninth graders. And our teachers were were were were giving some feedback on that that to just to make certain that that we are listening to their feedback as as we are developing these specialized areas uh for the new high school. So, it's exciting work. Um it's premature at this time to really share much more

046because it's such schematic draft at this time. Certainly I wanted some feedback from the board, so they could give all of you um some information that I gave you last week. Um certainly looking for feedback from our teachers as well. Uh but nothing that's a finished product in any shape or form. So, it's very very clear that it's a draft to be presented. Question. Um for example, like today, you know, we were we were talking about parking and sewers and gas and and you know, electrical lines and sanitary and you know, fascinating discussion, but nothing that you know, we we are ready to share at this pilot program. But it but it's very very useful. Um okay. Uh that's the facility update. I I do want to address some inconsistencies I think that that I've

047heard since our last meeting. Um just wherever, there are various forms of information that's come back to me. You know, we are not tearing down this building. There there there There is some feedback I got saying, "Well, why are you putting any money into the current high school when you're tearing it down?" Folks, this building's not coming down. Right? This This building will be our junior high school in 2029-30, and 2030-31, it will be our sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade, where we will morph it into a middle school. So, yeah, we still have to take care of this building. There was a question I think that was posted uh that got back to me related to the boost that that somebody wanted to debate with me this something. Okay, it's not a one-story building.

048It was never a one-story building. Okay? It is a two-story building. It is very big two-story two-story building. Um no no problem. Um the project does not include anything related to the football stadium. No decisions have been made on the football stadium. So, as I continue to have some feedback people saying, "Well, jeez, you know, I can't believe they're tearing down a stadium." Or "Thank heavens you're not tearing down a stadium." Anything like that. No decisions in any way, shape, or form have been made. I think our Board of Education has talked about wanting to pretty soon form some sort of committee related to our to our all of our athletic facilities. I think that's going to be good work. Uh but if there's a feeling out there that, you know, we're we're doing something

049with the football stadium right now connected to this, that is not accurate. And that might line into the next topic I'm going to bring up. It makes logical sense that people might be questioning the football stadium when we were talking last month about the stadium lights, okay? So, I want to bring back to the board >> [clears throat] >> additional information related to the stadium lights. For those of you that haven't been here, um or or maybe aren't aware of what of some of the stuff we discussed before, you know, on March 13th, we had just like everybody else in the area did, we had some pretty significant storms blow through, and those storms caused some damage throughout the entire school district, and we are working with our insurance to make certain how we need

050to we may follow on on all the damage that was done. In particular to the football stadium, we had two of our light poles that are significantly leaning right now, and they have to be replaced. There's no other way around it. All right, so we could see that we have three options. Option one would be a full replacement of the lights that are out there right now. That is the the recommendation that pretty much every vendor and our insurance would would like us to to do, uh certainly. It is the option that is the most solid and permanent uh replacement and fix of the of the light situation out there. However, that is by far the most expensive uh option for us right now, and the board, rightfully so, expressed some concern with that option.

051It it Are there other options besides that? I would say if we are not going full replacement on those lights tonight, which we're not doing, right? I don't know that a full replacement before next football season really is viable for us. I I don't think we have the bandwidth to do that. So, what does that leave us then? It leaves us with the two other options. Option one of those two options would be to in some way use the current poles that are in there, fix those, get them solidly back in the ground, make sure that their that their footers are still there, the poles haven't rotted out, the lights on the poles still work, realign them, of that. Raise those poles in some way. We are continuing to look into those options. That option

052number three, that and all of these options are expensive. All of these options, a decision's going to have to make very soon. So, we are ready to go for football season not for next year. Option number three is going to be in some fashion, some temporary lights. That And there are companies out there that provide temporary lighting for football stadiums. Uh they you know, we we are engaged in conversation with them. I think we will be able to get temporary lights. However, temporary lights are going to have a significant financial impact. And that money would not be put in any way towards a permanent solution. They'll be a very temporary solution. That's where we're at with the football stadium lights. I am not bringing to you this evening any recommendation to move forward. I will

053continue to research this with Mr. Justin, our operations director. Mr. Downey has certainly been part of this. Continue to work with our insurance agents. We are scheduled to have a board work session on Tuesday after Memorial Day. I think we will have more information and ask the board to possibly either make some make some take some action that evening. If if we do that, it will want to turn that into to a regular meeting to take action. Or at least provide information to the board a little bit more. So, at our June board meeting, we can act on these options. So, that's my update on the on the stadium lights. And that might be why there have been some other questions that were raised to me this month from our last board meeting. All right,

054just blessed it. Okay. Um just want to put things I promised before I turn turn it over to the rest of the meeting. Um I am going to briefly ask the community to help us out with something. Over the course of the last, well, just in spring we have noticed an increase of what do I want to say? Let's just say golf carts. We have golf carts or other motorized vehicles on our campus in the evenings at all kinds of activities. We did have a moment last week where a number of us were walking out of meeting in this in this building pretty late evening, probably 8:00 or 9:00 tonight, and we all felt there was a group of our students in the back of some motorized vehicle being driven around the campus in a

055very unsafe fashion. And as we got there to try to address that, the person who was driving that vehicle saw we were coming and hightailed it. Right? But it didn't stop the fact that it was a very dangerous situation. And as we looked into that, we are recognizing that it seems like more and more of those type of vehicles are on our campus. I have I have worked I've reached out to Officer Port, Deputy Port, and the Sheriff's Department asked for some assistance, but we are I'm just simply asking the community, if you are driving those type of vehicles on our campus, I'm not even going to get into whether they're street legal. I don't know, right? That's not my business. But if you have one on our campus, please be careful. Please don't put

056kids on the back of them. Please be smart as as you are. That is why I wouldn't drive like that. Those kids were having a blast on the back of that car. Don't get me wrong, okay? I probably would have been one of those kids on the back of that car when I was 10 to kids at heart. But it was dangerous. So just just a a request to the community to drive those vehicles on our campus. All right, please please be mature. Okay, you see a list of very important dates that are coming up here in the next couple weeks. I won't go through all of them. Just obviously the big one. There was a lot of big ones this week, but the the main one is Friday night, Waynedale High School Class of

0572026 will graduate from Grace Church over at Crestview. And I know you'll all be there. I know Humbert will be there. He'll be there. My last update for right now is just a reminder. I just said it already, but we have agreed that we will have a work session special meeting that's just on Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday and Sunday. That's going to be all of the meetings right now. It's All right. Thank you, sir. Um we have informational discussion items. Those are yours, right, Mr. Van Leek? There's two items. It's not really a long discussion. Informational. Um real quick. We've We've talked about in the past. I know John Justice talked about it. We partner with work with Ohio Schools Council and people I don't know if they're questioning what

058what's Ohio Schools Council. What are the fees for? etc. Um They provide services and expertise and guidance on many many different things that schools deal with on a daily basis. And so smaller school districts they don't have large purchasing departments or someone on site to do all their bids, etc. They help finding services and stuff. And we do save money with them. In fact, each year they'll issue a certificate of savings. And and last year was 63,000. The year before that was 59,000. I think before that it might have been 30,000. But there's so many different things. They help us with our utilities, our diesel fuel, life insurance programs, our trash pickup, buying buses and vans, safety plans, um uh bus camera systems, AEDs, cement. I mean, the list is I don't want to say

059endless, but it's a long list. And Ohio Schools Council, I just want to let people know in case of any questions, they are definitely one of our partners as we try to manage the school district. We're not experts in everything, but it's nice to know we have that kind of support and uh I applaud John Justice when he came in here and started using them uh very frequently on different projects and they've been very helpful. They uh offered that came in and helped us with uh transportation last year. It It found little pieces of the formula and reimbursements that allowed us to get significantly more dollars back reimbursed from the state for our transportation department. Just by making sure we knew the different intricacies of the formula. And it's very helpful to have an Ohio

060Schools Council partner uh and also a business operations manager is willing to use that partner and uh not act like Yeah, we don't need help cuz it's it's nice to have those partners. So, I just want the public to know that. Could you repeat the savings from last year again? Last year we saved $63,483.41. Most of that on a life insurance program, but also our natural gas program, uh a monitoring system, uh it's called Goldfish. It helped us manage our uh fluctuations and what we pay out and if there's anything that stands out, we look into it and make sure there's no oddball checks being issued that shouldn't be. Things like that helps me keep control of all the money's coming and going in the district. Uh it helps bus bus purchase program, uh AED

061programs that so we just different things that school districts need help with. Um any questions about Ohio Schools Council and how they help us? Okay. Thank you. Um the other thing uh we actually have a slide on this other item. It has to do with our source of funds that we put together for our capital project. And last year in the summer and I have July 25th and I have good discussions when it started there uh between Roy and I and Justin. But I think we actually had a board approval for this plan that we would We already We our 32 million put away for um the capital project. We knew we had money in the bond retirement fund residuals once the bond was paid off in November. We budgeted a million. We actually came

062up with 1 million 14,000. That money's already been transferred we had the first couple months back. Tonight, I'm asking the board to approve three other additional transfers. The 003 permanent improvement fund and the 071 sales tax fund. Those funds are capital funds anyway, but we're just consolidating all those funds into the 070 fund so our entire capital project dollars are all in one fund. And there's instead of 850,000 we had budgeted for PI, it's 890,000 being transferred. Instead of 1 and 1/2 million sales tax money, it's 1 million 575,000 we're going to be transferring. Um the interest earned, that's an ongoing thing each month we we get additional interest. Uh between what we've earned so far, if you look at our financial statements, which we're going to bring shortly, over 1.1 million dollars so far,

063but also last year before the end of the year we had 164,000 dollars of additional revenue in the 070 fund. There's two more months this year, and as we put more money in the 070 fund and the 23 million dollar cop selling goes in the 070 fund, our interest will hit the number we need. We will be at 40 million dollars by the end of the year. Also, the general fund the 3 million dollars that we planned on. Actually, we had a little bit more, but we don't need to take anymore. We will hit our 40 million dollar goal this year. Uh and it's just it was a plan that was approved by the board back in August and it's right now it's just time to get it implement the different pieces and parts of

064the plan as projected. Um we're going to get into the recommendations for approval, but are there any questions comments concerning the void? That's right. Just clarify, Mark. So, what The items that we're transferring over, for instance, the permanent improvement revenue and the sales tax revenue, um and uh I think that would be it. I guess yeah, the general fund transfer. So, those dollar amounts that are somewhat annually The capital Mhm. This is the only year we're transferring those over. So, next year's sales tax revenue, next year's permanent improvement revenue, those can then be reinvested in the existing capital funds. >> the we're going to use 1.8 million a year to service the debt. The capital fund? Yes, so there'll be roughly 600,000 or more to do capital projects which funds list goes. And just just

065to back up, last year, beginning of the summer, we had $5 million between those two funds. We spent $2.5 million last summer. We're going to spend an additional $2.5 million this summer on different projects. We're taking care of the district. And it's not all high school, it's elementary buildings, it's this building here, the middle school, um and other things. We're we're taking the fuel tanks out of the ground down at transportation. We're going to have bus brand fuel tanks, which is avoiding an EPA issue kind of thing. And there's other fixes and changes we're doing around the district. But But These revenues here we're transferring is current year revenue this year. So, this is like a one-time transfer. >> Yes, we're Not a recurring transfer of funds of Yes, the the funds will be mostly

066cleaned out. Starting next year, the dollars be used for servicing the debt and um the the $600,000 a year. And the capital fund is uh if I may, the we had a meeting since last uh week ago about financing the capital fund break it's called. Uh they're going to actually sell the debt on the May 19th. We'll get our funds sometime in early June, that you June 9th or rather. Uh But, the the debt will be structured in such a way that we won't make our first payment until December of '27. Year and a half away. There's going to be what you're going to turn in that's called excess premiums. We'll receive those dollars. I think somewhere in the neighborhood of half a million dollars. We pay those next year as an interest abatement. But,

067the just the way the debt's structured doesn't cost the district that money. It's the way the debt is structured. And then we have 20 years with the payments of almost one question here at the end of this discussion. >> And then the general fund transfer made 2026 of 3 million. That's a one-time transfer of funds from the general fund. So, any any additional general fund resources that we have at the end of next year that can be utilized for other school purposes. Uh this is basically a one-time transfer. Yeah, that's correct. You know, we're hitting our goal, 40 million dollars. We're hitting our goal. And along with the generate interest over the life of the uh we'll roughly have a 67 million dollars project surplus. Okay, and future transfers are not anticipated and probably probably

068will be deemed revenue operating to the district revenue. Okay, thank you. So, the 67 million, um does that include 5 million going into this building? Yes. There's There's budget right now is 59 million dollars for the new high school. 1 million dollars for the demolition of the old the Binghamton demolition of the old uh Chenango and a 5 million dollar probably uh invested in this building. Now, included in that those numbers is our the tech fees and construction manager fees. It's not 5 million dollars worth of stuff put in the building. It's you know, the it's you have to have proper design and you have to have construction managers to run the local. But, we we are going to update this building. Cuz making big stuff that needs to be fixed is collected. In fact,

069the the investment group waiting to finish this summer is not part of this. It's part of our other capital dollars. But what we're doing capital that for the district between last summer and this summer over $5 million invested in district and an additional $67 million invested in the our facilities. And it's something that needs to happen. Our current facilities won't last forever. We must do something about them. So, the 1.8 million that's going to be coming that's the payments that cops owe and that's annual. Where is that coming from? From the 03 and 071 funds annual revenues. So, that's the annual they're going to be putting up the bill. The park was it the money coming from the county too? Yeah, permit improvement fund and 071. Those are capital funds anyway. They're meant to be

070used for buildings and and capital purchases and or paying debt on capital purchases. So, that those funds will be used. But in fact, just another side story. I discussed this plan with Brett Thomas, the the finance director for the county who's in charge of the sales tax plan. I discussed what we're doing and how we're managing the funds. And he told me that it's the perfect use of those funds. They can use it to upgrade the district in a great way. And he was very supportive. And what was the 600,000 you said something about that. What is that for? That's between the 03 fund and 071 fund. We get 2.4 a little bit more revenue each year. So, 1.8 million will be servicing the debt. The $600,000 residual off that each year will be used

071for capital improvements around the district if we need new bus or patching up a parking lot or whatever. And Marty Yep. Sure. Yep. Yep. You put May 2024 by did I I think that should be 2025 correct? Kevin I you're right I'm going to make sure we're No, we didn't transfer those once. I wasn't here that transferred this now they 25 the transfer and so with this again, we are using these permanent program dollars for certainly a building that will be permanent. So that's the residual that we're using this year that's planned we look forward as well and we have also accounted for other capital projects like the roads that we've done with other capital projects as well. Between what we've done last summer this summer and also take taking the old building off of

072our we're we're getting rid of most of our major capital needs. Brand new school and then we'll address the certainly in this building as we can over the next one years. Thank you. So again, just to reiterate what I've heard you say market is the total project cost of the new high school and the improvements to this school to make it a new middle school is 67 million dollars. The budget I laid out was 65 67 million is available because as you talked but just just a yes or no question. Because I think it's important for board members as people say wrong numbers. It's important for the community to understand about being lied to. This is a 67 million dollar project. It's not the dollar amount that is on documents that were submitted to the

073state through the health program. That is a separate mathematical formula that that the OFCC uses. So anybody on this board who is not standing up for that 67 million dollar budget is lying to the community. It's a 67 million dollar project. I was always told that this is 65. This is the first time I've seen it in 67. I have no problem with this. The problem that I have, which I've said before, is you're taking $40 million out of our accounts. In 2 years, when you can't pay your payroll, and you come back to the the public and say that you want money. I've told you that this community will never, ever, ever pass any more money. So, go ahead with this. That's fine. It's 4 to 1 anyways, but when we don't make payroll,

074and you start having to make cuts, We we're actively looking at where we can cut down. We're not waiting to start to get Well, we has to. Thank you, Mark, for following the plan. Just wanted to be clear about several of the board members, cuz the what you're going to see under the action items of the treasurer is totally under the changes which is fine. And then I would also say to Jess Knight, if we're not letting the community know that this building is staying online for decades and decades in the future, we're lying to the community. When somebody says, "You're tearing the high school down." This high school's not being torn down. So, again, I would encourage board members that if you have friends or comrades that are saying to the community otherwise, stand

075up for the facts of the truth, and don't lie to the community. This building will stay online. If you're not supporting that, you're lying. First off, we need like an actual written out plan. We're talking about putting $40,000 into the stadium, when you guys don't even know if we're going to keep the stadium. So, first off, we have to figure out what we're doing with stadium. And the plan all the way up until today was that in 10 years this building's going to be demolished and we're going to build another one. That's always been the plan. That has never been the plan to build a high school and then they're going to build a middle school. I'll send you the website. The Alpha agreement, and maybe Joseph could speak to that or Mark more than

076I can, is a result of the original plan before the elementary building was built. So, we have to in our Alpha agreement make what we're doing fit in with something that people way before any of us served on the board thought that might happen in the district. You were expelled. Okay, so just like I said, that's something I want to talk about it in our next meeting in 2 weeks. Is I wanted to iron out Now you're saying this building is staying, which is fine. That's perfectly fine. I want that ironed out, this building is staying, and I want to know what we're doing with the stadium. You can't be wishy-washy what we're going to do. We have to have definite plans on what we're going to do. Then we can start putting money into

077it if we are. But we're not going to put $400,000 into it and then talk about going So, it does suffer staying. So, in the time that we've been talking about this the last minute, I found the plan. It's saved for the world to see at buckeyeschools.org/facilities-plan. I found it. It's four pages long. So, I'll send all the board members a link so that we can all have the plan that was approved last year. So, we are going to work on the stadium well, right? You said what we're going to going to do next meeting? Sure. >> I think you're right, Kim. I I we do need to figure out that stadium. We had said right along, and maybe it was before you were on the board, but we had said we were doing academic

078first, and we weren't going to worry about that until we had a plan for academics, because that's why we're here, right, Brooke? And so, we do know, and you are right, we're coming very close to the time where we have to say, "Okay, now what happens with the stadium?" >> Right. I mean, if we're going to have to we're our back's against the wall, we have to decide what we're going to do with it. If we're putting [clears throat] money into it or if we're just going to have to Right. fix it up for the little ones. Mr. associate, if I may, but I think the stadium light issue that happened on March 13th is pushing us faster. It has to be, right? But I also believe in the last I'm just going to say

079the last six five months since you've been on the board, number, we've talked about forming a committee, not just about the football stadium, but about athletics facilities again. But I think it would be it would not be correct for the board to make to to approve recommendations of Mr. Donley or myself related to the football stadium absent that committee. Okay. Everybody agrees we've got to address what we're doing not only with the football stadium, but with our athletic facilities. What we did what you did as a board, and Mark is a treasurer and I'm a superintendent, is we focused the facility plan the new master facility plan only on the new high school and the upgrades of this building to become falls into the store. We did not do anything with that. Right. We did.

080So, I think we're all in agreement we have to move forward with our athletic facilities. So, let's get that committee going. Let's figure out what we're going to do. believe we're We good. Okay, any other comments or questions on information items so far? Okay then, Mr. Donnelly, we are ready for your action items. >> Okay, under the non-consent area, I asked for items Mr. So, I asked for separate close. Um under the approval of Qualcomm quotation in the junior high, we have a fire panel that's about We were trying to get software for a rebrand software so that they would work. And it's working, but it's on its last leg, and we definitely have to replace it. So, we need to put a new fire panel in that building. Now, the the advantage of putting

081the fire panel in the old building, which we're going to tear down in 3 years, is the same exact fire panel that we're going to this building. Fire panel in this building's working fine. Hopefully in 3 years, we can pull it out of there. Fire panel right here, we have we'll make use out of that asset by purchasing. Also, we've done the same thing. We have two new hot water tanks that we had put in the in junior high last year. The idea being when the building comes down, we can move those brand new water tanks over to this building. Um so, we're we're planning for the future. So, we're not just spending a lot of money on the old building just to tear it down. This is It's going to be recycled. But anyway,

082there's a motion There's a a resolution to approve uh authorize an agreement with Qualcomm to install a fire panel at Buckeye Junior High School to address safety needs of the students and staff at a cost of $29,985.50. I so move. This is I second it. Any questions or comments? Roll call. Mrs. Coughlin. Yes. Mr. Salazar. Yes. Uh Mr. Cuya. Yes. Mrs. Zilic. Yes. >> Mrs. Duverger? Yes. But Um The second item is a trade I'm looking to transfer the funds as mentioned previously, but this is specifically $890,000 transferred from the permanent improvement fund 03 to the capital projects fund 070. So, moved. I'll second. Seconded. I'm sorry. I just Excuse me, Mr. Chair. Who made this up? Mr. Seth and Denise. Denise. Two of them. Thank you. Okay. Mr. Kuhlmann? Yes. Mrs. Duverger? Yes. Mrs.

083Silage? Yes. Uh Mr. Salazar? Yes. And Mrs. Gunkel? Yes. Yes, Mr. Yes. Uh here. Um I know you're taking notes and you're running the meeting. Take notes like we do. I got to say this is way out of order. Okay. I On to the next item. Transfer of funds. This is specifically transferring $1,575,000 from the sales tax fund 071 to the capital projects fund 070. So, I move. I'll second. Any questions, comments? Roll call. Mr. Uh Mrs. Gunkelmann? Yes. Mr. Kuhlmann? Yes. Mrs. Silage? No. Okay. Uh Mrs. Duverger? Yes. Mr. Salazar? Yes. And the final item on the by Dr. Seth. I'm looking for a motion or a I'm looking for a approval of the transfer of $3 million from the general fund to the capital projects fund. Was that a motion? I second the

084motion. It's difficult. Second. Questions or comments? Welcome. Uh Mr. Salazar. Yes. Mr. Kluya. Yes. Mrs. Cecil. >> Yes. Mr. Gaukeman. Yes. Mrs. DeBerge. Yes. Okay. And that is it for the treasurer's items tonight. Thank you very much. You have some consent items Oh, shoot. That was that. Yes. Under the consent items, I have the April financial statements in the for your review and approval. I also have an athletic sponsorship. We approved sponsorship rates, I think, last month, but now we have a a Calfis Construction wants to sponsor the athletic program for $2,000 a year. And the third item under non-consent, it's a student activity purpose and budget statements. These are sent to the board for their approval. They I use it for purchasing purposes, but also the board see all the different student activities and

085the amount of activity whether they're going to be raising $15,000 or $4,000 or whatever. And the different activities are like there's a lot going on for the next year. This is this year, obviously. It's going to be for the next full year. But those three items I'm asking for the board's approval at the end of the consent agenda. All right, thank you. So, now we're going to switch over to Mr. Stanton for his superintendent's recommendation. >> Thank you, Mrs. Gaukeman and board. I have one very exciting non-consent item for your consideration this evening. Um Um, I'll remind the board back in January when our our teachers, our high school principal administration, and some guests from Tri-C were here and talked about an exciting opportunity through Tri-C for our students to eventually earn an associate's degree

086uh A A in in art from Tri-C. Uh but I'm going to get to that next. Um, the first thing I'm going to talk about is uh the the media center that we're in right now. It It is an initiative to update and change the media center here a little bit. For the Tri-C item, before I get to that I want to talk about for support for our students that are here taking college credit plus classes, Mr. Stukey and his staff have identified for multiple years that our students that are taking CCP classes, especially our students that are taking CCP classes on route, are struggling in those classes. In some cases, the failure rates of students in those classes is pretty high. So, Mr. Stukey and and school counselors here and the science department and

087and the team that Adam leads brought to me an idea in October about could we create something different, a support lab for our high school students that are taking CCP classes, and offer them some support here. Um, we talked about making certain that could we do that here? Could we do that in a in space that actually, you know, was was being under under utilized? And immediately Adam and his staff brought a presentation a plan to do that in in this in this We looked at some other places as well, but this was this was the best application for it. Immediately started talking to Mark and and John Justice and from the Mark from the finance perspective, do we have the ability to do this? So, that's path number one on this plane. Path number

088two comes up with the associates pathway program at Tri-C. At the same time, Adam and his staff are speaking to our our partners at Tri-C. And is there some other way we can bring some additional opportunities for our students here? And it morphs into the Tri-C Academy. Right now, we have 28 students that are enrolled in this academy for next year. Two on the waiting list. They We have absolutely found a resource for our students, and we want to have that here. So, for your for your consideration this evening, I'm asking for your approval of the college credit plus support lab at the Tri-C Associates Pathway initiative project, which will take place here. The cost is right now 42,000 to 48,000 dollars. We are trying to bring that cost down with some with some grant

089opportunities. We are going to furnish the lab through our partnership with some with some great community groups, such as the Education Foundation. And it comes out to about 15,000 dollars a year for the next 3 years. To do what? To support our students that are taking CCP classes here back at school with some support from our teachers, their principals, and their counselors, and hopefully have them be more successful. And to also offer an opportunity for our students on the associates pathway with Tri-C. From a curricular perspective, we have done some really exciting curriculum things since I have been here. And I'll take credit for it. It is our principals, it is our teachers, it is our curriculum director, and our student services director that are leading our curriculum charges. They Um this is possibly the

090most exciting initiative we have going in this school district going into next year. So, I understand the cost. I would I would I would slide argument. I would say to you this is an unbelievable opportunity for our students that need durable costs. So, my non-consent item is to ask you to approve this for this evening, and if you approve this evening, then the work will begin as soon as the school year list currently years over. So, this lab will be ready to go so they can use this. May I have a motion, please? That's so moved. I'll second. Any questions or comments? Uh I will just say that um I through talking with Martin and Mr. Stoke and staff, I know there were other rooms considered for this type of a project. I I strongly

091feel that what the high school team has created it is in many regards kind of the closest we have to the future of how we take students who are more college bound and prepare them in you know, using a high school setting for a support system. Um the reason why I like this room is because yes, this is a nice room. And I do think that as we move into the new high school, more of our programming needs to be more geared towards what they're trying to do. So, I fully support this investment. If it was if it was more, uh I would still support it within reason obviously. Um I can't speak more confidently along I just think this is Some kids um aren't going to be interested in this and have access to

092an amazing career center. And and to me this is kind of a different element. It's not the opposite side of the spectrum, but it's just a different way to learn and to support our kids who are right now want to go down that pathway, but don't have academic supports on site to allow them to do that. And though the data is showing we have to have a facility um campus and keep those kids engaged in their learning. Um and we know there's kids at risk of not graduating this Friday because they didn't have those supports that we're trying to provide in this room starting next week. I think it's a brilliant investment. Can I clarify the question about it's in this room, right? >> It is. Are we Where is that going to have a

093library? Are we taking all of the library? >> [cough] >> The media center, Mrs. Walsh, will move uh to another location here. Uh so basically what you're going to see is behind me there will be a classroom professional development center that is still working. Okay. Uh this room is underutilized. Uh we have the data that shows that. Um so we we will still have a media center. It it will not Thanks. So during the school day this room will be the CCP lab, so to speak, where students have have the ability and our teachers and our counselors will be supporting them here. And when the Tri-C class is going on, that will be happening here. Now, something that I didn't share and I should One of the big Mark, I'll give you credit for this.

094One of the big Man, it's a setback. must-have, I would say, is what are we doing with it when this is no longer the high school? Well, I am very confident talking to Mr. Sauer and Mr. Glazer and middle school junior high school people that that room will be very easily utilized as we get into this book during the last year, now to our second school, I want to say that was dining was very clear. It was probably that thing that was never a question about. So, that works out. But but the media center was was a good thing. I like it. So, I get it that at the cap the high school kids don't use this a lot because it it's gone to your computers and stuff. I still think the junior high belong

095in the south like where you can Is it possible when we get rid of that, can they bring the library with you? >> Yeah, I I'm going to say yes, Kim, it's possible, but so are so many other things. Right? I I I don't know yet what what we're going to do. We haven't started really talking too much about what this is going to become with our with our architects and with our construction people and with our junior high school teachers and our and our constituents. But we've got a lot of work to do there. What we have in this building, when it becomes a two-grade school for one year and then a three-grade group for the high school, is going to be a lot of space. So, you know, I think it would be

096it wouldn't be the right thing for me to say yes, this is going to be a junior high school media center. It might be, but it also could be some other things because there could be other other uses for it. But we're going to have a media center in in this building project. Now, at the new Cloverleaf Middle School and High School, does not have a media center. Their media center is spread out at media stations throughout the school. And when we toured that, they highlighted that. So, I'm curious to hear from our middle school administrators and teachers on if we need a stand-alone media center versus more flexible spaces that can be transformed throughout the year to be more innovative for 10 years. Just don't know yet. But you're right, Mr. Stepp, right? This

097gives us a lot to figure out which bathroom to use. That's exciting. Yeah, kitchen machines and stuff there. Yeah. Thank you for the discount. How many books are taken out of this media center a day I think in support? I ran an audit of all Northeast Ohio schools 2 years ago. You wanted to get some feedback on that. Um We were on the higher end. That year we checked out 37. 37 books? Right. There were other schools that had zero. We were We were 37 and we were We were on higher end. Um Most of those books were e-books that were checked out on a week but The bookshelf over there that's a little disorganized at the moment, those are Buckeye Local Schools property books. Those Buckeye Local Schools Most of those 37 books. If

098you take a peek at the books that are around the corner, um I challenge anyone to pull one off the shelf and give it a good You can do it. That's quite a bit dusty. Um those books are books that you're going to You're going to read online. Right. I would assume they're all just primary. They still use the library. I don't know right off the top of my Absolutely. May May I have a moment? At primary, um we check out about 27,000 books. And so 27,000 out and then back in. Making a difference. There's a huge difference, you know? So Yeah, I Ours didn't go anywhere. That is You know, we we are not getting rid of You know, the No, the media centers. The media centers. Any other questions? They get back in

099the building. They get out of the building pretty quick. They're going to want more. Yeah. It is It is interesting though, right? I think being able to use data a bit position what kind of data you want. >> I think we had a similar conversation about lockers, right? They wanted the lockers and how I think the look up here is talking about it makes sense. And then the the student said actually Anyone want to go there, Brent? Yep. Just move. Look up here. Okay, so we are ready then. We had um a first and a second and we We a little bit second. So uh roll call, please. Uh Mr. De March? Yes. Mr. Mr. Savage? Yes. Mr. Silic? Yes. Uh Mr. Kuhl? Yes. And Mr. Gutman? Yes. Thank you. Well, thank you. Thank you

100so much. Okay, let's go over to the consent. Yes. Yeah, I promise these will be quicker, although we do cover a lot of these. So, for your uh rec- for your consideration this evening, I'll start off with uh agreement heads with our future consultants. Uh this is cafeteria logics. This is the same company we use. Uh still great people, have done a great job for us. Uh this is our contract with cafeteria logics for next year. Next year. Uh next is the TES Academy Act Academy agreement. This is our master educational placement and related services agreement. This provides specialized educational programming for students with disabilities. Uh there's one student at District Office. Uh Dun-Rite Day, clean our carpets, and we're very happy they do. Uh I ask your consideration for uh continued work with them

101for next year. Uh Master Library is how we schedule our facilities and our maintenance technology. This is our work order system. We have We have We have started to use this a lot more with a lot of success. Again, kudos to Mr. Justice for for this, uh Mr. Pisorda for this, and anybody that is headed in operation and maintenance world. Uh Master Library has been a has been a good asset for us. Continue getting its work. Continue. Uh water treatment for our two hot water boilers on the Buckeye campus. This includes application of chemicals and our monthly testing. This is done, as always, through Hummel Road. Ohio Cat is our preventive annual maintenance for the elementary school generator. Um Straight Arrow Line striping. That is striping of our athletic facilities fields. This is for two

102seasons, and it does include all of our fields. Uh we were secure shred is where we who the company that we use to shred our documents uh throughout the entire campus. I like the partnership with them and want to continue. Uh Williams Sports Floor will be refurbishing the high school gymnasium with your approval this evening. Apollo Pest Control, pest control treatment of all of our buildings throughout the entire Buckeye campus again. Uh that is a monthly rate that we use with them. Service Tech is our partner that uses to clean our high school kitchen exhaust hoods and dishwasher. S.A. Comunale is our fire alarm and annual share backflow prevention testing that is required by the district. We will continue working with them. Upko is our custodial supply pricing for the '26-'27. This is billed per

103gallon for cleaning supplies which is interesting. I didn't know that until I saw it on the back. Uh our shared services alliance is providing transportation support services for the Buckeye High School for the Buckeye Middle School was that it's a monthly rate. So, there is a lot of cooling contracts refrigeration season. I'll keep going. We see you see our bus routes for this summer. We have the stars and the stripes throughout. That is on there that is the funds from June 9th through August 6th. Then you see the summer enrichment route as well that will run from June 15th to July 6th. Ladies and gentlemen. Next, uh there is an approval for an MOU with Kent State. This is for uh student teacher field experience experience. Uh this is for our ASL, right? Uh for

104the slide. Uh we'll have student teachers next year so we're happy about that. We're definitely seeing we don't need that deal and any time we can have a better mentor and uh have another perspective teacher that's a good mentor for us. Thank you, Brooke. Uh ask for your approval for uh live and learn program. This is for uh the international exchange student. Uh Aurora Rodriguez will join us from Spain for the '26-'27 school year at as in machine handsome. Um I have there are two curricular things. I'm going to cover the first one of the in a bit of pivot mass. This is Elias is here at the public side. The second one, the first one is the approval of the Saudi Saudi snap program for grades 6 and 8 uh and high school grade

1059 through 12. 9 through 12 uh 6 through 8. Those were what was presented in that the April 14th board meeting. So, this is in essence a second. And I'm going to ask Mrs. Elias to speak at the next one. We kind of fell into something here. So, Bridget, I want you to explain because where we're going to end up is very good thing with your hard work. So, um we could have continued Oh, sure. We could have continued in um with our 2018 curriculum for 6 through 8 English language arts uh and just continued another year, or we could have um gone and had a pilot program for next year. And so, we've actually had uh teachers come together a couple of years ago and look at the different curricula that was available to

106us to potentially use. Um and again, we could continue with 2018. We were up for curriculum adoption next year, uh but Savvis contacted us and said we can actually use them this at the onset of this year uh and they could provide us with all the professional development that our teachers would need more than we would get if we just merely adopted. We had to pay for all of those professional development adoption um opportunities in the past, but with the pilot, they're going to give them to us. Uh we were going to adopt at the end of next year anyway, so we're going to pilot at the onset of the year, if you approve. Uh they'll give us all the consumables that we need, um the teachers' editions and so forth, uh and anything that

107we would have to pay for would then be out of the full adoption cycle that we would be going with if we choose to go that route with them. So, uh it will align with our K through 5 curriculum, uh which is what we have Savvas K through 5, uh and that'll take us all the way up through 8th grade. We're really excited. It has everything that we want in an updated curriculum. It's no longer the 2018 curriculum, uh so it has all the bells and whistles for differentiation, for scaffolding, all the consumables that the students will need, uh digital resources, everything. Uh we're really excited about it because there's a lot more that they give us with the pilot that we didn't really take advantage of in I think in some previous adoptions. Any

108questions? Thank you. I want to add this as a comment for me. Thank you. Your Your excitement when you came into my office 2 weeks ago on this, said, "Jeff, how do we do this? Our teachers want this and we we need a pilot." So, good nice job. You deserve the credit for finding that resource for us. And it doesn't block us in. No, it doesn't. Gives us a year to say, "Hey, we don't like it or we love it." Burn it. Thank Grace Green Martin. Uh okay, back to uh my consent items. Uh we have an in lieu of uh in in lieu of transportation uh when the school year is almost over and uh we need to pay that in lieu of with that family as we do with or may at this

109time of this school year. Okay, switch to personnel. Uh work through personnel here pretty quickly. It's pretty light month for the personnel perspective. I'll start out start off uh asking for the board's consideration for extended days for Dr. Wooten. Dr. Wooten will be joining us. Um anytime that we have an administrative position, you know, leadership position, we are going to try to to have some transition dates with the new person coming in and and and the retiring person leaving. All right, so for your consideration this evening. This is pretty standard to be done um in the past. When when I came here, uh the Moor Park people transition was quite a bit. Uh certified personnel, you see some FMLA's. We've got some people that um that that are going out and some people that are

110returning. These are pretty standard FMLA things. But we have one-year limited contract recommendation for Ms. Anderson, high school special education teacher, who has done an amazing job and we're all happy and happy that Laura has joined us. They stay with us next year. We sadly have a recommend a resignation this evening. Mr. Daniel as a PE teacher um up at Sarah's the Sarah Heights building. Um Mr. Daniel has done a great job for us. Really a good good young teacher. She's got some some changes in her personal life. Good changes. Uh but changes in her personal life so but she is going to resign from from her position. We wish her nothing but the best. She's a good good teacher who left. Um you see a supplemental there for Mr. Kocoliat to be our school

111to work coordinator for the 2026-2027 school year. We have substitute bus driver Mr. Duran uh effective back in April uh the job fit. Uh Mr. Myers. Good evening Mr. Myers. I know you've been a busy guy and you decided to walk in. Hopefully we'll be seeing you with good news for our baseball field. Yes. >> Uh okay, there you go. Uh but we see John has presented some comps coaches for for your consideration as well. Um and there is a donation from our friends at BLEA. They're here this evening. Uh but BLEA with a $100 donation uh donated to excellence at 10 plus public high school. Those would have been my recommendations for this evening. All right, thank you. So, um right now we need a motion for the approval of the consent agenda. So

112moved. Second. I'll second it. Any questions or comments on that? All the two of items. I just want to say I'm going to vote in favor of all the items on the consent, but I took an oath to support the Ohio Revised Code. I just find it wrong that we pay parents to if we can transport their kids to private schools, but we don't pay our parents of public schools when we can't transport their kids. So, I'm voting for the consent agenda, but I think the annual transportation is a poor use of state taxpayers' dollars. Anything else? I just have a question about the gym floor here. I know I saw it the other day. Um how long is that supposed to last? I know this we've got the That's an annual maintenance. It's done

113every year. Oh, is it annually? We strip it and then It's stripped and and then basically recoated. Um Then typically we'll do it after volleyball season, before basketball. The volleyball players tend to rough it up a little bit slightly than the basketball players really want it. So, that's a good time to do that. We do design it. Um last year we actually we did the junior high athletic floors, too. We had that looked at for a number of years. We will not do those this year. We'll start to put those up by rotations. Uh competition floors are letting them all make sure you clean up any old business. So, Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? >> Maybe one comment along with what Mr. Justice said. The older I get, the the floors I got to

114give up roofs and HVAC getting pretty boring. Um there's a you got a long list on here. So, I just want to say thank you to Mr. Justice to give you this sort of and the maintenance teams. Um I I counted about 10 projects in here with maintenance perspective over $65,000 covered in annual maintenance that keeps us running smoothly throughout the year. Um so, thank you for putting in the work this summer. Uh certainly appreciate it. And this is in addition to all the other large capital projects they've been going on this year. We have a few more servers, Patrick's laptop. We just have to proceed slowly. Make it. Not short team. That's what this page is. Somebody got Roll call, please. Uh Mr. Salazar? Yes. Mr. Crean? Yes. Mrs. Cecilich? Yes. Mrs. Bergeron? Yes.

115Mrs. Goff? Yes. New business. Yes. Thank you again, Mrs. Goff. My two items this evening. Um I did not bring back the this month these three handbooks. There's a reason for that. Uh we we have some updates and that's what we have here. We have an update for artificial intelligence, then we have an update for the usage of tobacco and vape products, vape detectors. Then we didn't didn't make sense for us to approve the handbooks and then bring the updates to you after the fact. It doesn't make sense. So, next month, um if you are okay with me doing this, next month these will be added to the handbooks. We will approve the handbooks and give them credit. Does that make sense? Yes. So, that's new item number one. New item number two, we've got

116some first reads. You see one, two, three, four, five policies there. Uh these are from our most recent update with NEOLA um that we had. Next month we will have an additional first read policies. So, next month you will see these on a second read following comments if anybody has any edits, and you'll see these some additional for sure. So, those are my two new business items this evening. All right. Can I ask a question? Sure. On the on the vaping Didn't you have the policy? Yeah, the detectors. Is there Again, I don't know where the I think in our generation uh there was smoking and it was you blink or that. Is there some like standard location that we would put those? Smoking. Do you want These are not like hardwired walls. These are

117These are wands. As students get smarter, hiding places that they know cannot be searched. That's what they used to use it situation where it becomes a problem. You also have to have a lights out and metal me. Okay, then. Got you. So, this is what I've always been told it would be done, you know, to properly wet it. Call Call the little thing each time that you can pay attention to the search. I call search with quotes because you probably need something. So, it's you know, I don't like the way we done respect for the agents parent company. These are These are big temperature. Take points. Got you. Okay. Thank you. Yes, good. All right, then. Any other questions on the new business items before we move? All right, then. This is time for board

118comment. Is there anyone who would like to start this evening? What do you feel like? All right, Mr. Abernathy. I would like to congratulate our class of 2026. I'm so excited about the graduation. I I get inspired every year before the graduation. I just get this you know, warm fuzzies. It's awesome. It's a wonderful event and so well done. Thanks for allowing me to be here tonight. Congratulations to our students who won as well as Amelia for her abstract and her artwork. That is an incredible artwork. It really is. I I think it it goes far and above even our our understandings. It's It's fit Adam and I appreciate all your work. Jen, that's incredible. Um thank you to our administrators for recognizing our students for all their academic achievements, but for students of the

119month, but also this month I so appreciated that they were acknowledged for being kind, doing the right deeds without someone watching. But, for the sake just for the sake of being kind, treating others with respect, giving grace to others. And also, something we all need to learn and and kind of reflect on is being honest and truthful and being kind one another. And I think that goes such a long way that we all have to maybe learn from kids. So, I I appreciate all of that. That was That was awesome. It It was uh touching and I wish you that. Thank you. AJ? Anyone else? I just want to thank you all for coming tonight. I want to congratulate the class of '26. Um I'm looking forward to seeing the teachers. I want to congratulate

120the teachers, too, because once again, you know, especially elementary, they watch them grow up. Um and I wanted to thank the uh team. On Friday, I was on the safety committee. I went to all the schools. I appreciate your time. I appreciate you showing me everything and answering all my questions. It was very positive. It's very good. A couple things real quick. I know the Tri-C program. We heard about that a couple months ago. It's exciting to see that take shape. Now, so really appreciate the the work that he was out there coordinating. That's uh an exciting opportunity for our students. So, and then also, Mark, wanted to thank you as well. Um and then we talked about the the permanent improvement funds that were transferred. This is the financial portion of that facility for

121the board of education. Correct? That you executed well. So, the result of this will be a new high school, a renovated junior high without additional cost. I don't know if we're going to do the capital improvements. That's quite an accomplishment. >> Yeah. So, good work. Nice job tonight. Who would like to speak next? I think Well, I think um my colleagues have covered it all. Um them, but I want to extend another thank you to the BLEA. I think you've helped with that for a number of years now, and and that certainly is appreciated. So, I'll entertain a motion for adjournment. So moved. I'll second that. I neglected to ask for questions and comments. I thought roll call. Okay. Mr. Griego? Yes. Mr. Salazar? Yes. Mrs. Shirley? Yes. Mr. Krajewski? Yes. Mrs. Scott? Yes. Thank

122you all. Thank you, Mrs. Have a pleasant evening. Goodnight. Goodnight.