001All right. Good evening. I will uh call this meeting to order. It's a special meeting uh July 24th uh of the Ontal School District Board of Education. Mr. Jenkins, can you please call the role? >> Mr. Lester, >> here. >> Dr. Dabberco >> here. >> Dr. Wallik >> here. >> Mr. O'Brien >> here. >> Miss Shriber >> here. Right. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I aliance 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. >> All right, we have our agenda posted. I don't believe there are any amendments. Anybody have any amendments? All right, then I will entertain a motion to approve the agenda. >> So moved. and a second. >> Second. >>
002All right. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none, Mr. Jenkins, please call the role. >> Mr. Lester, >> yes. >> Dr. Dabberco, >> yes. >> Dr. Wallik, >> yes. >> Mr. O'Brien, >> yes. >> Miss Shriber, >> yes. >> All right. On to the board president's report. Uh so, thanks everyone for coming here. I appreciate uh especially in the summer when people come out to board meetings. Uh so, uh this is a special meeting as I as I indicated. Uh it is uh we have a very limited agenda, but we do have a couple of things. We have a few um uh human resources items. Uh this is the time of year where that happens. We have a recognition for one of our fellow board members, Dr. Wallak, which we'll talk about in a minute. Uh
003but the main item on the agenda is a discussion as to whether to go onto the November ballot for a no new millillage bond issue, which we'll discuss a little bit more as to what that is, uh to be voted on by the community that would allow the district to build a new elementary school and a new high school without increasing the tax rate on the community. Um, we will have a fuller discussion about this item as we get into the the actual discussion as is as as part of the the proper process, but I wanted to take this opportunity to provide a little bit of context uh for why this is happening now and and sort of what the district's process has been over time related to growth and growth is really the story
004of why we are here. Um the central Ohio region and Delaware County in particular and and Tangi even more in particular have been growing tremendously over the past couple of decades, the past decade in particular and really into the next decade. We we expect this to continue further. We've been adding 500 new students every single year for the past decade. We expect to add 500 students every single year for the next decade. Right? This is a really uh tremendous level of growth that this community is seeing. And that type of growth in an area like this brings some real opportunities as we see things develop their increased options for health care and dining and entertainment and all the sorts of things that that make a community a good place to live. Um but it presents
005some challenges as well. It creates challenges to the infrastructure of a community and schools are part of that infrastructure of a community. Um, we have to, you know, adjust to, uh, you know, going from a a district that until 1990 was in a single building. Now we're 27 buildings or 28 buildings, 17 elementaryaries, six middles, four high schools, and an academy oasis, right? And we still need to grow more so that we can accommodate that. Um, that's very difficult, especially when you have very high standards for educational excellence. We want to make sure that all students have an opportunity to thrive. And when you have overcrowded schools, you know, there's only so many spots on a football team, there's only so many roles in a play. Um, we want to make sure that those opportunities
006are there for students. Um, we are also committed to fiscal responsibility in what we're doing. We want to make sure that as we grow, we're doing it the right way. We're trying to keep costs as low as we possibly can on the community, especially knowing that this district traditionally has not gotten much state funding. so that the local community has had to to bear a larger share of that. Um, so as we noted at a couple board meetings recently, as I noted, you know, in some other contexts, when you look at the average amount that a public school district pays on a per student basis, it's around $16,300. The three school districts that are bigger than us in the state, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, they all average about 22 to $25,000 per student. Our local academic
007peers, the high achieving peers, your beexleys, your Dublins, your Grand Views, New Albany, Warthingington, Upper Arlington, they're all in the 17 to $20,000 per student per year. Ont, $19 per student per year, $300 less than the statewide average, $1,000 less than our closest local peer, $5,000 less than our closest sizebased peer. Right? This shows that we are committed to trying to keep those costs as low as we possibly can and going to the community only when we truly need it. So, in that vein, uh about a year and a half ago, this board uh went to the voters with another levy. That levy was going to ask the community uh to support five new schools in the district to fully staff them and was going to have uh an operating ask of 4.25 mills. that
008that specific measure would have raised taxes on the community to accommodate that growth. Um given what we are seeing, given the influx of new students, you know, that it was felt that that was justified. Um that measure didn't pass and given what we have seen, we could have gone right back to the ballot in November of last year. We could have gone in spring of this year and we could have been justified in doing that. But that's not what this board did. We we took a step back. We thought about what are we doing here? How are we making this work in the community? How are we doing this in a in a cost-effective way? What steps can we take to do this better? We had a very public board work session. We talked about
009this at every board meeting. We talked about our facilities committee meetings. We sent out a survey to the full community about where their level of interest was. Um we we engaged in all manner of formal and informal conversations to try to find alternative paths forward. And we also took up the banner this year of really advocating for fair state funding because that's a way that this community saves money. If the state contributes more money to our schools, that allows us to save money for the local community. So, at every single board meeting this year, we've been talking about the importance of state funding, about how you can speak to your legislators. We've been speaking to our legislators. We've been putting that information out for the community um and encouraging people to be active and understand
010the impacts that that would have. Um unfortunately the state chose not to increase state funding for public schools or for districts like Tangi. We're stuck at the same 5 to 10% level that we have been for years and years and that puts an outsized impact on on our community. So given that we have a challenge in front of us. We are growing rapidly, very, very rapidly. We need to have space for students to succeed. We need to make sure that this district still has those high standards, but we can't overburden the community and how we're doing it. And we're getting no help from the state level. This measure that we're putting forward tonight, and we'll talk about it uh a bit more, is a step in that direction, especially being understanding the impact to the
011community. It is specifically a no new millillage uh bond issue and we'll talk about what that means. Uh it would not increase the cost this specific measure would not increase the cost on the community and it would allow us to build two schools at our most pressing areas of need a high school and an elementary school. Um it will not solve all of our growth problems. It will not right. Our prior issue had a lot more in it. This is a more limited measure. Um, but it is focused specifically on doing it in a way that will not raise those costs. Now, we're going to have to have continued discussions about all this if this passes. If it fail either way, we're going to have to have continued discussions about it. Um, but we want
012the community to sort of understand that this is a step in that direction that would not raise taxes if approved and that would allow us to to get to that space. So, we will discuss this more fully here. We have a lot of questions. There's a lot of information to go over. Um, but that's the context for how we got to this place. Um, with that, do we have any other updates before we head straight into the the other materials? >> Um, go ahead. >> A few uh OSBA related items. Um, I think since our last meeting, um, there was a OSBA board of trustees meeting, um, a cabinet committee meeting and a federal legislative advoc advocacy group meeting. Um, so lots going on with OSBA. um and exciting to report back that the search
013for a new CEO um is we're we're getting closer. So they've dwindled down to two finalist candidates and so we can expect I think an announcement about a new CEO for OSBA sooner than later. >> That's great. That's great. Thank you so much and thanks so much for your continued work with them both you and Miss Shriber as well. Uh, okay. So, we will move first to our first board action item, which is the resolution to proceed with a levy to authorize the issuance of $235 million in bonds for school facilities. Um, at this point, I will take a motion to entertain that and then we will open up discussion and and talk about it more, but just procedurally, that's the step. So, I will entertain a motion to approve the resolution to proceed with
014a levy to authorize the issuance of 235 million in bonds for school facilities. >> So moved. >> And a second. >> Second. All right, any discussion? Uh, so yes, there will be some discussion. Uh, so first I'd like to turn it over uh to Mr. Meyer uh first and foremost to talk just about the impacts that we have seen from enrollment growth over time. >> Yep. Yep. >> And I I would just say I would encourage all board members to be part of the discussion. >> Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Lester. And and I'm going I'm going to go back a uh in history a little bit. Um so the last uh 10 years at Tangi, we grew by over 5,000 students. And in that 10-year span, we constructed the equivalent to five buildings. Um, high
015school, middle school, two elementaryaries, and then equivalent to a third elementary by adding on to three of our elementaryaries and then the 12 uh preschool classrooms at Shanahan. So, uh, five buildings in the next 10 years mirrors, uh, what we've seen the last 10 years as far as we're projected to grow by over 22% over 5,000 students. So um like you said that presents a challenge for us. So uh we were not successful in 24. So we're we're asking and recommending to come back. So we paired this back from five building ask to uh two buildings uh to meet the shortterm immediate need. Um and we feel the short-term immediate need is for one elementary school and a high school. Uh in in particular the elementary um on the west side of the district. We
016have two elementaryaries that will be over 900 students each by 27 without constructing a new building. Um, and >> which just to be clear, our elementaryaries currently house about how many students? >> Uh, they're between 600 and 700, but we have a we have a couple over 700, but 625 is our capacity. >> Say that number again. >> 625 is our capacity. Uh, >> and you're projecting 900, >> right, in those two elementaryaries. So the challenge for us as a district is we have to uh make decisions because at the end of the day we want to provide an environment um where students have the best experience possible and what students in our community expect. Uh so without adding additional facilities then we have to make decisions around redistricting adding trailers uh which we've done.
017Um but we feel uh accommodating our growth and managing our growth with a new facility and I'm talking about an elementary um is is the best educational environment to provide the best educational experience for our kids. Um so that's the short-term elementary need. Then we look at the high school and uh currently we have four high schools. So uh high school when you build a high school it just doesn't open uh in a year. it takes three years to construct a high school. So it it's really the responsible thing and incumbent upon us as uh a district and district leadership team to plan for that growth um to meet the needs of the high schools. So in three years so if this if this passes if this measure passes we would be able to open
018uh high school 5 in 2028. in 2028, uh, Berlin High School would be over 2,300 students and all three of our other high schools, uh, right around 2,000 students. So, for us, timing wise now would be, um, ideal in order to construct open in 28 where then obviously we can relieve uh, the sizes of our high schools. And you had already mentioned in the high school and we talk about student experience and it's it's so important in this community because of what the community expects number one what our parents expect and what our students quite frankly deserve. Uh and you had talked about opportunities the larger our schools get uh it does take away from opportunities for our students. Um >> just to be clear you mentioned 2300. What's the the the uh the the
019size that we prefer for our high school? >> 1,800. 1,800. So, we're right now three of the four are over capacity. Um and growing uh and >> by 28 those numbers, all of the buildings would be over capacity. Just Berlin would be the most over capacity. >> Correct. Correct. Yeah, that would be that would be beyond stretch capacity at that point. So as you add kids above the capacity, it makes it harder and harder for the kids that continue to be added to participate in those things where you only get there's only one football team for school, right? >> Or is it are we considering adding two varsity? I mean, >> it doesn't work that way, right? I mean, the dispatch has a great article talking about the success driven by our parents and the
020commitment of the kids to really achieve at super high levels. you know, I would love them to do a similar um arrangement on the academic stuff that our kids do do. um they don't celebrate it on Friday nights, but it's still just as valuable and some of us might argue even more valuable because everyone can conceiv and the high schools and that's a good point. That's a good point to because opportunities obviously we talk a lot about extracurriculars but opportunities obviously in the school day. So the larger our schools get uh with students, we lose those opportunities as well. And you know, in in our district, I think we do a really really good job of trying to make big feel small. And developing positive relationships is so important uh in the educational experience for
021our kids. So the larger our schools are, the harder that is to uh do. So >> So the problem you're talking about is not solved by making the building bigger. >> No. because it's still limited opportunities. >> Absolutely. >> And it's a real challenge. I mean, there's there's been tons of research done around mental health of students that if you have a trusted adult that the chances of you, you know, either suffering from, you know, challenges from a mental health perspective go down precipitously. The more people you have, the more difficult it is to have a trusted adult. You know, the the fewer opportunities that the teachers in the building or the staff in the building have to really engage with folks that that >> less personalized. Less personal. >> Yeah, that's right. Sure. >>
022That's right. >> So, our recommendation, again, we'll go back to um uh listening to uh the community from uh off the heels of uh 2024, spring of 2024, and pairing this down from five buildings to two buildings. Um and again, at no new millillage. So, this is the only issue. It's it's one issue, no new millage, uh to construct um two buildings to uh meet the short-term need of the district. And like you said, we continue to grow um and we will continue to grow, but uh the immediate need is for an elementary uh the addition of one elementary and a high school. >> Mr. Meyer, how much more expensive are these buildings now than they would have been if we would have passed last year? And I know we can't go backwards, but I
023think that helps us understand what happens if we don't take action now. In my mind, it builds the urgency. If I know I can get something at a discount now that I absolutely have to get, I want to get it sooner rather than later. >> Yeah. And a great question. Uh the longer we wait, uh the more um it costs to construct. So you're the answer to your question is 10.8 million more to start now than it was 2 years ago >> by waiting. >> Yeah. And Dr. Dr. Dabberco and I are both on the facilities committee and have had numerous conversations among committee members about the volatility of construction costs, the availability of things like chillers for the air conditioning and things like that. Um and so really takes a lot of forethought and
024planning to create a new um building to keep up with a building and things like that. So, um, certainly when it comes to trying to be proactive and saving costs because we just don't know what prices will be like a year from now, just like we didn't know in 2019 what the prices would skyrocket in 2020. Um, so and in terms of being proactive in cost savings, this seems to be the the the way to go. and and and I'm glad that you brought that up because I do want to recognize our facilities committee which is comprised of uh community members um in the community as well as board members sit on that committee who really uh provide us valuable information and when we make these decisions. And so one example is uh in October
025every year the facilities committee updates our enrollment projections and every single year year over year over year they're spot on within 1% um of our projections which really helps us as a district to plan. Um so you know I definitely for sure appreciate the work of the facilities committee >> with regards to foresight. Um obviously um so let's make an assumption. If we were to go on the ballot in November and if it were to be passed by our community, we can't snap our fingers and have new buildings. >> Correct. >> So I believe there's a one-year lead time on building an elementary and a three-year lead time on a high school. So when would we be looking at breaking ground or having buildings open? >> So in the fall we would break it ground
026for the elementary in the spring. Um uh the board did pass uh a resolution to start design work on the high school so we can get ahead of that. Um so elementary 18 would open in the fall of 27. >> Can we just ride this out with the enrollment projections? Is this something like if we just just hang tight, just circle the wagons for a year and then everything will level back out and we won't be adding 500 new kids. How long how far out does that go? The projection for us to um start to level off is uh 2032 and that's just leveling off. That's not even declining. So um so yeah, we we have an immediate need and we're going to continue to have a need. >> So we we've talked about the
027growth issue. Um we're using this term no new millillage, right? And that I think can be confusing especially when you're talking about um things that have actual very real costs. You can't get a high school for free. Um I've looked at Costco, they do not have them for cheap. Uh so Mr. Jenkins, could you maybe talk a little bit about this idea of what it means to be a no new millillage bond and then how that works with the district finances um you know the impact of the community in that regard. So what no new millillage means is that the tax rate will not have to increase. It won't have to increase because we have other u outstanding bond issues that we are collecting to be able to pay back the the debt on those
028bond issues. Uh what we're collecting at at six total mills will cover uh the addition of this new issue. uh should it pass. So >> in the language of the resolution and I and I saw this on the I believe it was the dispatch today that they projected that um again based on the language of the resolution that the taxes would potentially increase $62 for each $100,000. Is that something that you're actually going to get in your tax bill or how does that work? So the legislation that we have to pass is mandated uh very proscriptively by the Ohio Revised Code. The Ohio Revised Code has you look at this one issue completely uh in uh absence of any other factor outside of this one bond issue. So the revised code also requires that you
029estimate an interest rate. It requires that you estimate a maximum maturity uh for how long a debt could be issued. Um it requires level debt service uh which means that what you borrow is paid back in equal installments over the course of whatever the debt is issued. So all of those pieces go together and then as mentioned without looking at any other factor there is a requirement by Ohio Revised Code for the auditor uh to put a value on uh in a vacuum where there's nothing else going on. This levy would require X mills. What we are able to do because we have existing uh debt service millage is we have the capacity to be able to incorporate the issuance of this $235 million worth of debt. And in the process of paying it back
030to the investors who will purchase our securities that will allow us to raise the funds, we will have the margin to be able to even though the the legislation authorizes and says that we could collect up to 1.77 mills, we will not need to collect any additional mills. Hence the phrasiology, no additional mills. And where the tax rate isn't going up, I believe it's fair to say that passage of the bond issue uh should it pass would not cause our taxpayers to pay more in real estate taxes uh because that tax rate is the same. So what do we we pay six mills on servicing our bonds? >> We pay six mills that will allow us to create a stream of revenue that allows us to pay our existing debt service. That is correct. For
031other buildings we've built in the last 10 to 20 years. That's correct. >> So last year and year before we cut it twice. >> That's correct. We were collecting seven and a half mills through the 2220. Remember you always pay your property taxes a year in a rears. So in 2022 uh which was paid in 2023 the tax rate for our uh debt service fund was 7.5 mills. We have actually cut it a full mill and a half. We did it in two installments. a mill and a quarter for 2023 and another quarter of a mill. Uh and that was even after our our uh you know last bond issue was unsuccessful. But we have always been responsible to collect only what we need. And so that uh six mills should this levy pass will
032still be six mills. It won't change. So next, so if the voters decide that they want to continue the the opportunities that we have, they approve the levy in November, uh I'm looking at a whole bunch of my neighbors in the in the um spent time to come tonight, and I want to be able to look him in the eye and say, "Scott, your rates are not going to go above six if you vote for this." And when I tell him something, he's a good enough friend to hold me to it. So, if you'll recall, um, we'll we will be doing the exact same thing this goound on August 5th. I'll be bringing a resolution forward to this board. Um, we are actually going to go down and talk to Auditor George Kitza and his
033staff, Mr. Meyer and I, next week. And we actually passed a resolution when we ran the March uh, of 2024 bond issue. And that resolution will say as a board that we will not need to collect the additional 1.77 mills that is authorized by the legislation but not needed. >> Have they done this before? >> We've done it I believe in 2001, 2004, 2011, 2016 and 2020. Did I nail them all or miss one? >> 2012 and 202. This is a complicated message to get across though because when people go to the ballot, the ballot language will still indicate um that amount that could be collected. Um it won't reflect zero even though we're passing we would be looking to pass a resolution to indicate that we wouldn't be collecting it. >> That is correct.
034There's nothing the the law uh proscribes exactly what the ballot language has to say. Um, and it's actually, if you look at the resolution, that's almost verbatim what will be uh on the ballot in November. >> So, I I just want to clar because we we've said this a few different ways, and let me try to tie it together. This fund that we we use that we collect millillage on, this board has proactively reduced that millillage by a mill and a half just over the past two years. >> That's correct. by resolutions that this board has passed, we have reduced that funds eliminating our ability to collect on that by 1.5 mills over the past two years. This measure that is going on the ballot says that we could collect 1.77 mills. Now, it doesn't
035make a whole lot of sense for us to proactively reduce that if we truly needed it and then just go back and ask for the same thing. We would have just kept it there to begin with. That step shows that we believe and and the the math has borne this out that this is something that we could do with the existing capacity, not increasing it, keeping it at a level amount from our our community. And we have a long history over the past 24 years of doing this repeatedly where you can go back and look to make sure that that's what we've done. >> That's correct. >> I'd be really impressed to know if somebody knows how much money that one and a half mills has saved our taxpayers. Do we know that? Yeah. Um
036Mr. Jenkins actually just calculated that today. So somewhere on the order of um about 8 and a half to$9 million >> in um two separate chunks >> almost 10 10 million in two separate chunks with the um 1.25 and the 0.25. >> So >> that's per year, >> right? And and it's confusing I think because you know people you know not everyone looks at their property tax bills and property tax bills can go up for different reasons right but these are direct property tax savings to the community. Your bill has gone down or because of this we are not collecting as much. We are not asking for as much because of this. So whatever was attributable to that is no longer on the bills. Right. That is direct cost savings to the community. >> Yeah.
037When we lowered the millillage from 7 and a half to 6 and a quarter, it would have had we not lowered it is the way to think about it, uh tax bills in the community would have gone up $8.5 million. Uh when we lowered it from um 6.25 to 6 mills, uh that averted an additional $1.7 million in taxes that would have otherwise been charged. So yeah, it it it's not as if uh someone in the community would look at a tax bill and say that it went backwards, but what it didn't do was it didn't go up because we cut the rate. >> Right. >> That's correct. >> Mr. Lester, I'm I just have one more question because I think I I want to make sure I understand that. Are we asking the rest
038of the district to help out just a corner geographically or is this help all I mean who does this benefit? Like if we build new high school northwest is it only benefit those folks on the on the west side? >> No, it benefits the the entire district. How um because we'll have to redistrict into that building. So we'll bring population enrollments down in the other buildings. But right now, our attendance boundary for Berlin is uh north of Hyatt all the way uh west to east across our district. Um so we we would >> so our teenagers won't have to drive across 23 potentially. >> So going backwards >> potenti potentially more depends on redistricting >> less of them I guess I should say. >> Just going backwards thinking about where would we be as a
039district if the voters would not have approved building Berlin. Was that uh 16 >> 2016 we opened in 1800? >> Right. So where would we be at? Berlin's what what is their attendance? >> Their the attendance boundary or you want >> No, they're their enrollment. Sorry. >> Their enrollments um just shy of 1900 right now. >> So you would have had to distribute that among the three other high schools. >> Correct. >> It's a ripple effect throughout the rest of the community. The students have to go somewhere, right? And so >> actually they're just shy of 2,000 >> right now. You see that pretty pronounced in the elementary level. Um, even this year with the overcrowding with there's even pocket redistricting among the different schools and kids are going from like really far south all
040the way up to like Alum Creek and things like that because we have to balance the numbers somehow. And so I would certainly appreciate, you know, saving another half hour on my kids bus ride in the morning or things like that. >> And and that's one thing that uh something we've done many times is redistricting because we continue to grow. Um, but on the flip side of your question, Dr. Dabbero, of not opening Berlin, we would get into multiple redistricting redistricting for the high schools because right now, um, Berlin High School and I said a little over 2,300 by 2028. If we do nothing, it just continues to go north eventually to 3,600 in that attendance boundary. So, >> how much did you say? 36 >> 3600 >> double it. >> Right. Right. >> Right.
041>> It's like a college at that point. >> That's right. >> No. >> So that's not a problem that a couple dozen trailers could fix. >> No. And um you know again going back to timing now to open that building in in uh 28. That prevent prevents us hopefully and again I don't want to go on the record but prevents us hopefully from not redistricting two times like out of Berlin. And then if we eventually pass to high school 5 then redistricting again. Um but high school 5 would cause a redistricting. We'll note that that's not on the record. >> But right I mean but it it it I think the message is that these are fluid issues, right? That they become very challenging and we don't know exactly where students are going to be
042and that impacts what we have to do. We have to move things around. People don't like being redistricted. to get that it it's become an unfortunate fact of life just because of the growth that we have had. Um but there's one thing to do a largecale redistricting that moves whole, you know, neighborhoods in ways like that. It's another thing to have to do it on more of an ad hoc basis where weird lines get drawn, you know, weird subdivisions get moved around and that and that causes problems for folks. It it it really does. Um okay, good. Um, any other comments, any other points anyone wants to to raise here? I I I just want to underscore that um this board, as as I hope you could tell, is a very thoughtful group of people.
043We've really been looking at this for a long time. Um, it is it's a challenge, right? It it's it's very much a challenge. It's one we take very seriously because we believe strongly in fiscal responsibility. We believe strongly in educational excellence and we believe strongly in developing this community the right way. Um we we need to take steps to make to make this work. Um we we believe that the the points that we've made here show why we're we're going forward here. Our job is not to tell people how to vote, but our job is to give people the information that we need. Uh I would encourage anyone in the community start looking at the information we're putting out. Reach out to any of us at any time, please. If you want us to come
044talk to you, we will. You know, we'll we'll have information on our website. We'll have different ways that this can get out there. But the most important thing is that the community is educated about this, that they understand it. Um and that, you know, they share their their thoughts with us. We we want to be responsive. >> Um if I can make one last point, um >> in response to your point that we have been very thoughtful about how we want to move forward with this. Um you said at the very beginning that we could have gone right back on the ballot to ask for the operating and the bond issue and we didn't and districts around us are doing all sorts of strategies to try to raise money um income tax in Westerville and
045other levies and other districts around us and we've talked about all those and we've thought about you know is this are any of these things things that could work for our district that would solve our immediate problems and not put too much of a burden on our families and I think this is a really great um solution for our overcrowding issue, our growth issue, um maintenance of our buildings as well that have been existing for 25 plus years um without adding additional financial burden to our to our district citizens. >> Yeah, for sure. Okay. Uh well, uh hearing any other discussion. All right. Hearing none, then Mr. Jenkins, please call the role. >> Dr. Dabberco, >> yes. >> Dr. Wallik. >> Yes. >> Mr. O'Brien. >> Yes. >> Miss Shriber. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lester.
046>> Yes. All right. Uh our next order of business is a motion to approve a resolution nominating Dr. Elizabeth Libby Wallak for the Ohio School Boards Association Recognition Award. Uh I'll read this resolution which is uh hopefully recognize uh the great work that Dr. Wallik does. Uh whereas Dr. Elizabeth Wallak, a board member at the Olandhi local school district, has served the district with distinction. And whereas Dr. Wallik has dedicated her time for the betterment of the students and community. And whereas Dr. Wallik has proven to be a dedicated has been proven to be dedicated to the craft of board governance through her commitment to training, service, and governance skills. And whereas such measures have advanced student achievement in the district and improve the governance of the district. Therefore, be it resolved that the board
047of education of the Ontal School District nominates Dr. Elizabeth Libby Wallik for the Ohio School Board's Association Recognition Award. So, this is an award that uh the OSBA uh puts on uh recognizes outstanding schoolboard members. Uh Dr. Wall has certainly um shown a commitment over time in a lot of different ways uh to the OSBA uh which benefits all public schools across the state of Ohio not just um and has really shown herself to be a true uh public education advocate. So we are um so grateful to have her expertise on the board. We are so uh happy to be able to uh recommend her for this uh this recognition award which is part of their their annual process which is hence the timing here. Uh so uh I will entertain a motion uh to
048approve this resolution. >> So moved. >> A second. >> Swited out. >> I I will second it. Uh any any discussion? >> I just want to No, I just want to add on to that that Dr. Wallik has been um a really great member of the board. She diligently attends all OSBA and other schoolboard related um trainings and comes back with a wealth of knowledge to share with us and has been a really good ambassador for Olant Tangi out to the state. So I know that um she's been a really great ambassador for us um and we are very grateful for the knowledge that she brings back to us. So thank you Libby. >> Thank you. I'm being nice to you unlike >> I'll tell you whenever whenever I I talk to Dr. Wallik, she's
049always sharing what she's learning and she's sharing what she's able to share because we do a lot of stuff really awesome. >> Um, really fabulous. Somebody told me today I need to stop saying awesome and say fabulous more often. So, she does a fabulous job of telling everybody how fabulous we are. But we can also learn from other districts as well and bringing that back. And um, and we don't always have to agree with the organizations we have affiliations with. And that's not that's not the goal here. The goal here is to recognize your your fabulous contributions to the group. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Any other discussion? All right. Hearing none, Mr. Jenkins, please call the role. >> Mr. O'Brien, >> yes. >> Miss Shriber, >> yes. >> Mr. Lester, >> yes.
050>> Dr. Dabberco, >> yes. >> Dr. Wallak, >> I will abstain. >> All right. Uh, Mr. Meer, we have a couple of uh human uh resources items. So, could you please tee those up? >> Thank you, Mr. Lester. So, board members, I recommend approval of the following superintendent consent action items A and B. A specific human resource items administrative. We have two administrators uh we'd like to approve before August 1st a new assistant principal to backfill for the promotion of the current assistant principal to principal Lissa Solder and then u a district uh school social worker Hadley Bruns. Uh so I I'm asking for approval of those two and then B specific human resource items certified. We need to accept the resignation of Lissa Solder as a French teacher uh for the district. So, I'm
051asking you to approve these items by one single action and vote unless you'd like to discuss any of these items separately. >> All right. Would anyone like to discuss either of these items separately? >> No. >> All right. Hearing none, Mr. Jenkins. Uh, sorry. May I have a motion to approve? >> So moved. >> A second. >> Second. >> Any discussion? He hearing none. Mr. Jenkins. >> Miss Shriber. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lester. >> Yes. >> Dr. Dabrico. >> Yes. >> Dr. Wallak. >> Yes. >> Mr. O'Brien. >> Yes. I I should know. I realize I skipped over public participation. Do we have any public participation comments? >> I don't have any. No. >> Okay. Good. All right. Then I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. >> So moved. >> A second. >> Second. >>
052Any discussion? All right. Hearing none. Mr. Jenkins. >> Mr. Lester. >> Yes. >> Dr. Dabberco. >> Yes. >> Dr. Wallik. >> Yes. >> Mr. O'Brien. >> Yes. >> M. Shriber. >> Yes. >> All right. We