001[Applause] All right. Uh, good evening everybody. Welcome to the, uh, June 12th meeting of the Onage Local School District Board of Education. It's going to be our best meeting of the year. We've got food service here, so everybody's excited. Uh, Mr. Jenkins, uh, can you please call the role? Mr. Lester, here. Dr. Dabberco here. Dr. Wallik here. Mr. O'Brien here. Miss Shriber here. All right. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance 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. I don't think we have any amendments to the agenda. Hearing none, can I have a motion to approve? So move. A second. Second. Right. Any discussion? Hearing none. Mr. Jenkins.
002Dr. Dabberco. Yes. Dr. Wallak. Yes. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. M. Shriber. Yes. Mr. Lester. Yes. All right. Moving to the board president's report. Man, we just we love having a lot of people come to these meetings. So, we appreciate you all taking time in the summer. It's nice and warm out there. So, uh our air conditioning is kind of working. It's slightly cooler in here right now, but we always love having uh folks, especially during the summer, come in. Uh I'll keep this relatively brief. We've got a lot of things on the agenda tonight. Uh but one of the things that we've been talking about throughout all of uh this this entire calendar year is the state budget process. Um this has very very very significant impacts on how public schools are able to function as
003well as a lot of other things throughout the state. Um, we've been tracking this from the governor's original bill that was uh that was introduced and some of the challenges that we saw um with that that went then to the state or I'm sorry to the house uh where they introduced a sort of a different funding formula that that had sort of some pros and cons but had a really concerning provision uh called the clawback that would result in Tangi having to return a whole bunch of money you know upwards of $90 million or so which would have a real significant impact on our operations. Next step is to go to the Senate and the Senate just released their version of the budget bill a couple days ago. Um, this has some real significant challenges
004for us as well. They're going back to a different funding formula. I will excuse anyone for finding it all a little bit confusing. It's confusing for everyone the way that it it sort of plays out. But the upshot of it is no matter which of these formulas that you're you're looking at, and we'll talk about it a little bit more, Mr. Jenkins report, um, public schools are not getting sufficient funding under any of them at all. Right. And this is a real real serious concern obviously for schools, obviously for families in schools, but for the state as a whole. It is we are deciding what is going to be the future of Ohio by how we treat our students that are coming up through this. The lessons that these students learn, the way that that
005we're providing support to them is going to determine what kind of leadership we have. And and something that that sort of stuck with me today in something work I work in higher education. And higher education is facing all of these challenges in and of itself, right? And as we deal with those, people have to um be able to respond and adapt and grow and try to find ways to provide services in the face of all of those challenges. And it it got me thinking about our portrait of a learner, right? We try to encourage students to be purposeful and resilient and curious and kind. Those are the four things in our portrait of a learner. And that's what we really want to inspire students to be. That's what you want your leaders of tomorrow to
006be. whether it's in society or government or business or whatever. That's what you want your neighbors to be and that's the sort of thing that we do for every child in this community regardless of their ability to pay unlike you know private schools. So how the state chooses to fund that the priorities that they set there are a measure of how they want to see the future of the state. So I we'll talk about this more in Mr. Jenkins report. Um, but it's disappointing to see the continued challenges as well as some of these new things that are going to make it even more difficult for us to to be able to seek money from the community. And as you get informed about them, as you talk to your legislators legislator about it, I really
007want you to to think about what kind of a future do you want for Ohio, right? Because that starts right here. It starts right here with the education that we're providing uh students every day. Um, so we hope that that message continues to go through. There's still the conference committee. The governor still has to look at this. Um, but I I I wish I had better news on the funding front because it it continues to be a real real serious challenge that's going to impact this community and the state more broadly. Um, with that, uh, I don't know if we've had any uh committee meetings since then. Have we had facilities? We did. We had a facilities committee meeting last week. Um, it was very productive. Um, I think there's going to be some of
008that stuff. Is that today or is it later? Yeah. Um, so Mr. Gordon's going to be presenting um about insurance, but yeah, there's continued discussion about um Shanahan Middle School and and the path forward um with that building, understanding that it's still a good building. Um I got one kid who just left and one who's coming in, so I'm well acquainted with um the good opportunities that are still there for all the students, but understanding that it is our district's oldest building. at what point are we um not using our our resources in the best way by continuing to update versus building a new building. So, that's been a a ongoing discussion and I know there there's a recommendation that's going to be presented um soon by the committee. Okay. Um Oh, perfect. Anything else
009on facilities? No. Okay. Um so, uh this just praising my summary of the meeting. Well done. Uh so this past Saturday um the Ohio School Boards Association uh executive committee and board of trustees. So Lzette and I were uh both present for this. We met to uh discuss and ultimately approve the appointment of Sarah Clark who is our chief legal counsel. She's also going to be taking on the role of interim CEO as the search for OSBA's next CEO continues. Um they've still got applications open through July 5th. So we will have a a interim CEO. Um I got to participate in a focus group as for OSBA then on Monday as well to offer input. That's it. You don't have concerns about lawyers and positions. So all right good. Uh great. Well uh great.
010So we will move on to our first presentation. Uh love the title make it awesome. So, it's great. Let's make it awesome. [Music] Good evening. Um, I'd like to thank the board for having us here to present our make it awesome challenge tonight. Uh, my name is Brent Roer. I'm the instructional technology supervisor here in Olan Tangi. It's my 10th year in this role and I think over the years we've seen the power of design challenges in our district. Um, we started small. We had students create portal designs for our my LSD portal. We've had students contribute meaningful stories to our Hello and Tangi podcast. I think these successes have showed us kind of one thing is that when we present unique opportunities and challenges to our students, they arrive with amazing solutions and product
011projects. So, we decided this year to kind of expand our reach um with these design challenges through the make it awesome challenge. Um, and it it was it went this past spring. We partnered with Bridgeed to connect our students with some of our real business challenges uh alongside some of our local business partners. I'll explain a little bit about the Make It Awesome Challenge. We had we offered four pathways for our students this year um for for four pathways for innovation. That first one being the community challenge. When I pitched this to the business advisory committee, I wanted them to present real business challenges that they are encountering on daily basis. And I pitched it as there's no need to go out for a expensive consultant. We have the brightest minds here at Oland Tangi.
012Why not let them try to solve it? Um, so this first inaugural year, we did have three businesses partner with us. Um, we had Tangi Education Foundation. As you know, they're moving away from Zulu and Tangi and they're going to the homecoming event. So Mary, sorry. she's here um had tasked us to have a design essentially design a brand new media um campaign for that event. Uh we partnered with Robertson Construction um as we know they're the main um construction company for our new buildings and this one in particular was how can we design a more eco-friendly cafeteria in future uh buildings in our school district. Um, Hi Grace in partnership with Wilkins Collective was a pajama brand that's a startup company who makes hospital or I'm sorry, makes um clothing for children who have
013long hospital stays. And so again, their their problem was that they um they weren't meeting the clientele. So they were asking our students to create a brand campaign, a marketing campaign that would reach actual that actual age range. Um we also had three other ones. We had my digital world challenge which was having students create unique stories about um internet safety and being safe online. We had digital storytelling which kids could create unique opportunities, unique stories using any medium that they felt confident with. And then the old make it hands-on challenge where they could take things from their um bedroom, things from their basement, their crawl space, you know, and create something new and unique out of it. This was presented K12 throughout the district. uh and kids could do this on their own time
014or with in facilitation with their um their own classroom teacher. I'm here today present. We had an amazing array of um submissions to all four categories. Um I have a few that I would like to share with you today and they're going to come up and kind of speak about their submissions. That's okay with you. We'll start with the make it challenge. Again, this is the hands-on one. Repurposing old things to make something new. So Laura, you come on up. Hi, my name is Laura McGwin. I'm a going into third grade at W1 Run Elementary School. And this year, I did the make it awesome challenge. First, I chose to do the digital storytelling challenge. I asked if I could do a stop motion. After a few pictures, mom said this would take too long,
015so we moved on. After a few tries such as making trail mix, building Legos, and how to play chess, finally I settled on making American Girl doll clothes. This was in the make it challenge. I used my mom's old socks to create them. I used scissors and measured fabric onto my doll, Julie. I made a dress, two shirts, two skirts, and a headband. I didn't have to sew anything. I just cut slits, arm holes, and neck holes out of the socks. I decided to make doll clothes because I wanted more clothes for my American Girl doll, and their clothes are very expensive. My mom washed My mom was going to throw her old socks away, so I found a new way to use them. Making doll clothes was fun and kind of easy, and I
016can do it again whenever I'd like. Thank you, [Applause] Uh the next one was digital uh sorry next one was digital storytelling. We have Parvana here. We're going to start by playing her a short snippet of her submission for her digital storytelling. Um it's impressive. So here we go. Can you hear that? That's the sound of flowers stretching in the sunshine. Welcome to the secret world of flowers, where colors bloom, bees zoom, and every petal has a story. Flowers don't just dress up for fun. They're actually super smart. Their colors and patterns are like different signs that say, "Hey, bees, this way, please." Even humans can't see the cool. And I wish we had more, but okay. Hi, my name is Parva and this is my video and I'm I'm really grateful that I really
017got to share it with you guys. And my video is all about flowers. I explain how they grow and many more points. Everything I made in this video was 100% original. No downloaded clips or templates. I edited in Photoshop and Adobe Premiere Pro and I used Adobe Audition to clean up background noise. I played my own piano and use that as a BGM. What made this video really special to me is how me and my dad worked together to make most parts of this video. I loved the evening stroll through Iniswood Metro Park and capturing beautiful flowers and using them in the video. So, a huge shout out to my dad. [Applause] Um, the next one was Robertson Construction. Again, just a reminder, this was the one where it was designing a more eco-friendly cafeteria
018in future buildings. [Music] Um, good evening everyone. My name is Aishwaria Ramnavan. I'm a rising freshman at Tangi Orange High School. And my challenge was to make um other elementary schools like Peachville Crossing a lot more eco-friendly and environmentally sustainable. My main point that I was using was using hemp, which is a versatile plant much like in the tobacco family. It's a plant where if you dry the leaves, make that a powder, and add that to the sound absorbers we have in the panels in our cafeteria, it can absorb up to 80% of the sound that's deflected on it. Also, changing the structure was also another one of my ideas and adding a compost bin using a school garden that we would also have outside every elementary school. But mainly, this challenge was a really
019great opportunity for me to learn about the environment sustainability movement currently going on. and I was able to do a lot of analyzing with online data and it really became one of my passions and interests learning about environment sustainability. So overall this project was a definite 10 out of 10 for me. Thank you. I want to add in too about the the business challenges, the community challenges. Um we collaborated with these businesses very closely to identify real challenges and we sent all submissions to them to find the best give us feedback on those submissions. So um these are selected from our business partners. Um the next one is OEF. So um Grace could not make it here tonight but this was the one that Mary and her team had selected. As you know their their
020goal was to create a new media brand campaign for their homecoming event. Uh, and Grace did an amazing job all the way from a menu to um tickets, raffle tickets to you name it, logos for this event. I know Mary was in contact with Grace as well for this. So, that was a great addition. Um, and the last one again, Claire and them, they had a baseball tournament that got rescheduled, so they could not be with us, but Halley Grace, this was the pajama one. What's interesting about this is that we had Ryan Wilkins come in and speak to the students about this project as well as the company CEO. Um, what's interesting is that the one that I picked was definitely not the one they picked. Shows how much I know. Um, but this
021was the one they selected in terms of creating a brand campaign that meets students where they're at to build brand awareness around these pajamas. Who would have thought it's an unboxing video? [Music] Oh my gosh. I have their pair of pajamas. The patterns are so cute. What are those little stars and rainbows? Yes, but they come they come down so they're adaptable for kids who need ports on their chests. And they're really comfy. Those must be so good for patient. They're so soft. Um let's see I have So that was just a snippet. Again I would add that these our business partners um and in conjunction with our our students are looking potentially to contact them for future use in their actual media campaigns which is great. This is what we want to be real.
022We want these projects to be real. Um so I'm very pleased with how this went this first year. It's made great to see you guys come and present these amazing projects. um talking to Molly Preston, we only want to continue to grow this to more business partners um and get more students involved in our second year. So, thank you [Applause] questions. Uh well, I'll just know it's always uh incredibly impressive when we see students come up that you know speaking in front of a big uh group of people, even people as friendly as all this is sometimes very difficult for students. Uh and you guys did an amazing job. You really really did a nice job of explaining what you did and you getting up there and speaking clearly and thoughtfully. So, you know, well
023done. Really appreciate that. And um it's just so nice to see the the sort of ingenuity of our students being put on display, right? I mean, it goes along with what I was saying at the outset. We're we're teaching skills that are going to be transferable and we're giving them an opportunity to do it. That's not just, you know, solve this problem or write this paper, but to look at it in real ways, right? That's that that's what makes school interesting. It's what makes it fun, but it also gives them some of that adaptability. So, really great job on all that. Thank you. Thank you. I I need to thank Laura from Wand.run run because I think Laura, you you're the same age as one of my daughters and you kind of look like her
024and yet you guys have a very similar looking American Girl doll, too. So, later I'm going to play the video back for her so she knows how to make her own American Girl doll clothes and I don't have to buy her anymore. So, thank you, Laura. [Applause] Uh well, we always tell the students that come here, feel you're free to stay and we're going to have the food service update next, which everybody's usually interested. So, uh but you're also free to go at any time. You don't have to stay for the whole meeting. So, uh all right, Miss Leno help. [Music] Okay. So, putting work. That was awesome presentation. I second what Mrs. uh Dr. Wallace said about the American Girl doll. Thank you. And how expensive those are cuz I have three little girls
025and yes, that adds up very quickly. So, those were all awesome. So, um as always, thank you for having me here this evening. Um, keeping with tradition, um, everyone, um, has their own little goodie bag of snacks of some of the latest and greatest, um, school food service items. Um, the first one is super exciting. It is the new, uh, flavor of Doritos. It's gold. It has tangy or tangi on it. So, I feel like they were designed for OS. Um we'll see if any of the other high schools want to um put them in their cafeterias. Um but they um will be out this fall. They meet smart snack standards. They'll be on snack carts. Um then you have three new flavors of Uncrustables. So we've had the traditional grape strawberry for ever since
026I've been in school food service. So the three new flavors you probably have seen in the grocery stores. Um it is chocolate, honey, and raspberry. Um all whole grain. They all meet one meat, one grain. Um so we use those at the um secondary levels. Um students can take two. So it's really nice because if they don't maybe want to eat both of them at lunchtime, they can take one to go for later on for after school. Then you have a Woodles cup, which are brand new. Um it's a ramen cup. We have been using the bulk version of that product um this whole school year as part of our ramen bar, but they came out with this very nicely designed um ramen cup. Um and we did sample it um at two high schools
027at the end of the spring and I have some pictures to show you. Um it meets two grains so you can add your meat meat alternate to it. It is vegetarian. Um it says chicky um but it doesn't actually have chicken in it. Um, and then you have just um a sparkling iced or a iced tea, Snapple Dye iced tea in there for I I almost got you diet Mountain Dew because I wasn't sure. No, it's not smart snack. You're correct. Um, so um enjoy. If you have any feedback when you take them home, please let me know. Always open to hearing feedback from um students, from parents. Um but yes, I am here just to give our annual update of the food service department. Um just as an overview um of the food service
028department, we um are sponsors of the national school lunch and school breakfast program, which means we are overseen at the federal level by the United States Department of Agriculture and at a state level by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Office of Nutrition. um as a sponsor um we receive federal reimbursement back for each meal um that serves that is served to students that meets the meal pattern um and the nutritional standards that are established by USDA. Um so we have different meal patterns for different grade levels. Um and then we also have to offer free and reduced price meals to those families um that qualify. I already mentioned smart snacks. So we have to follow smart snacks which are federal allocart standards that apply to anything that is sold to students outside of
029the um lunch and breakfast program. Um so that includes both foods and beverages. Um and that's not just in the cafeteria, that would be in vending machines. Um that would be any school fundraisers that are done during the school day. It's not just um indicative of um the cafeteria area. Um, what a lot of people don't realize is that we operate as our own entity and we are meant to operate as a nonprofit department. So any of our all the revenue that we bring in through the sale of school meals from the federal reimbursement from other revenue streams such as catering events or rebates has to then cover um all the expenses we have as a department. Um, so food purchases, supply purchases, paying our staff. Um, we basically in in an essence are our
030own business. We have 27 restaurants out in the school district. Um, and we are lucky enough to have 27 on-site kitchens. Um, we don't satellite any food. Um, we have 27 food service managers that oversee the daily operation in each of our kitchens. Um, and then approximately 115 food service workers. um not including our wonderful substitutes that fill in for when employees need to be off on sick leave or on personal leave. And then from a support standpoint, we have two maintenance positions, uh Josh Hershey and Michael Newman, who do a fabulous job maintaining all the equipment we have in the district. Um, so, um, doing preventative maintenance, repairs, um, two administrative assistants, uh, Stacy Quinn and Kim Proofio, who process, um, free and reduced meal applications, pay bills, submit orders, two assistant supervisors, Michelle
031Po and Michelle Mancini, who are in charge of overseeing the daily operations for those 27 um, buildings, and then myself. So, um, I just want to give um, a shout out to all my food service staff. They all do a tremendous job each day um serving our community, serving the kids. Um they all have are love their jobs. They love um to serve the kids with a smile. Um but it is hard work. People don't realize someone has to wash the dishes. Someone has to put away hundreds of cases of food that get delivered every week. So it's not always um easy work. Um now I'm just going to do a recap of this school year and then kind of tell you what we're anticipating for the 2526 school year. Um so on this slide
032you will see our current um meal pricing. We have not raised meal prices since 201718. Um so we um have maintained um our current pricing since then. Um we are on an eligibility based pricing. Um so any student that is paid pays $1.50 50 for breakfast. Elementary they pay $2.50. Middle school is$2.75. And then at the high school it's 3 or 350 depending upon the entree they select. Um reduced price families. Um so families that are approved for reduced price meals. Currently we're in year two of two of the state budget in which the state budget is picking up that cost. So families don't have to pay the 40 cents for lunch or the 30 cents for breakfast which has been nice. Um we are hopeful that it will continue in this ne next state
033budget but as we know we're just waiting for it to be complete. Um and then obviously families approved for um free meals receive meals at no cost. Then the second part of the slide shows you what we receive from federal reimbursement. Um so these rates are set um typically every year in July um and they are for the complete school year. I've highlighted the free um line item um to highlight that um we receive more revenue for students that are approved for free or reduced price meals than we do for a paid meal. Um so for instance, sorry um the breakfast the total revenue we receive for a student on the meal program is $2.37. In comparison, the total revenue we receive for a paid breakfast is $189. So a difference of 48. Um, also
034the same is true with our lunch prices. So our lunch an elementary student student who's approved for a meal program, we receive $4.52 for that meal versus a student who is paid in which the total revenue we receive is $31 because we only receive 51 cents from the federal government for that meal. Um so I just want to highlight that point to um the community and to the board. Um this next slide shows um the total meals um that we served for this school year. Um so the breakfast and lunch well I've given you an average meals served per day and then our yearly totals. Um the average meals um the breakfast and lunch sorry numbers are for the whole school year. The alloc cart numbers and the total meals are just through March. We're
035still working on finalizing all of our um financials from April and May, but we are um predicting that we will serve um over 3.1 meals for the whole school year, which um I think is the first time we've served over 3 million since the co area era when meals were available at no cost. So that is exciting stuff. It is um an increase from last year um which is what we want to see is you know more kids participating in all the programs breakfast lunch and allocart um but we did see an increase in the total meals compared to last year. Okay now we're going to talk about financials. So um revenue through March our revenue per day um averaged about $68,000 which is about $3.19 per meal. Um, so that was an increase from
036last year, which is um, we would expect because we have more meals, which means we're going to have more revenue. However, our expenses also increased. Um, so we average about 73 almost $74,000 per day um, in expenses, which is $3.52. So, obviously, we can do the math. Currently, um, as of this school, we are operating at a loss of about um, $3,350 per day. Um, and looking at it, our large largest contributors are an increase in produ production costs, so food costs, supply costs, um, and then an increase in labor costs. We also had three calamity days this school year, which um, unfortunately calamity days are not good for our revenue stream because those are days that we are closed. We have um, labor costs associated with it and we don't bring in revenue on
037those days and we won't bring in revenue because they're not made up. But all that being said, we do not plan on raising lunch prices for 2526 because we are lucky that we do have a carryover balance in our current um O6 fund that we can still continue to support the department into next school year. And most of that's from when meals were available at no cost and we were getting a high reimbursement rate from the federal government. Just while we're on that side, I'm curious in looking at the food cost because of cost of everything is challenging, right? But with food cost, do you expect that to just continue to rise gradually? Is there anything was specific to your suppliers that you think it might ease or um I would expect it continue to
038go up just because I mean we see it in the grocery stores. Um I don't think it will go as up as much as we have seen in the past couple of years. Um, we do participate in a buying cooperative, so we do get competitive bid pricing. Um, and it's a line item bid. So, we actually get bids from three different distri distributors. So, we ensure that we're getting the best price for that case of chicken nuggets or chicken tenders. So, making sure that we are getting the best value. Um, and we also utilize our commodity money um that we receive from the federal government. So, we're taking advantage of all the rebates that we can get. Does that answer your question? Yeah, it's I mean it it's certainly just a challenge with how we've
039seen inflation, other stuff, you know, going on generally, but I I was just curious if there was maybe something that was, you know, sort of bananas went crazy, but then they're coming back down and eggs. Eggs, right? Right. Yeah. We stopped buying eggs for a little bit because they were so expensive. Um because we pay market price for certain items. Produce items we typically pay market price for. Um, I talked to this um, DEW this past couple of days and they they're estimating that our reimbursement will go up about 3 to 3.8% for next school year, which kind of tells me that they think our cost will go up by at least that amount. You answered my question from the state. I didn't know if the federal government if if you're hearing are we vulnerable
040with this? like is the federal government going to continue the defund public education theme and and carry this through to lunch? You know, cuz there there's a whole bunch of areas where where there's concerns. Is this safe or I would say it's safe. I have not heard anything from DEW, from USDA that it's not that it's going to be a program that's going to be eliminated. And my other question was before you get to your last slide, are the numbers of kids getting free and reduced lunch is that stagnant or is it going up or down? What what does that number look like as a percentage? It's actually increased over the past couple years because the main reason we can now directly certify students for free or reduced price meals if they qualify for Medicaid,
041which is a new program as of two years ago. um which has been nice because it's taken away a lot of the hurdles that a family may have to do to apply for the meal program. Um so we have seen an increase. Prior to this as a district we were at 6 to 7% free and reduced. We're now now at 12 to 13%. Um because of being able to directly certify those students. Do they have to re-qualify every year? Correct. Yes, you do. So if the federal government changes those requirements and kids no longer qualify through no fault of their own, it could impact them negatively with their lunches. Correct. If they do not reapply, they can always apply based upon their income because we will always accept applications based upon income. You can fill
042out an paper application or an online application for income. um if you receive SNAP benefits, if you receive Medicaid, we can't take uh an application based upon that. It would have to be based upon income. Um and there is some concerns that um it may be harder for students to get directly certified. Um I share your concerns. Yeah. Yeah. So, anything else about that? I mean it it is interesting that it jumps that significantly once you remove those barriers, right? I mean it it's not that the the the relative, you know, financial condition of the dis of people in the district just changed by five percentage points. It's that people need that but weren't able to get it because of barriers. And as we start to see more of those barriers come into place, you
043know, if a student's hungry at school, it it impacts their ability to learn. And definitely. Yes. And we want to be able to give them, you know, something that we I mean, we get when we get hungry, we're hungry and, you know, so we want to be able to give the kids a meal so that they can learn and focus in the classroom. Have you been listening in the executive sessions? Cuz that's the theme is getting hangry. Oh, well, good thing you have snacks for your executive session later on, right? So, thank you. To know we had section later. I knew there was an executive session. Um, so some other things I want to highlight about this school year, we did implement a new menu planning software. Um, it includes our online menus that the
044community and parents can look at. Um, but what what's really nice about this um, menu planning software is also in um, the back of the house. So, it analyzes our menus for um, ensuring that it meets the meal patterns, that it meets the nutritional standards as it relates to calories and sodium. Um so it's a very nice um software that we have that will come in handy especially for this coming school year because we are expecting to be audited by DEW. Um so we'll have that all ready to go for them to prove that our menus do meet the meal patterns. Um we also implemented a new point of sale system called meal magic. Um we did that in conjunction um or closely with technology. Um um it was a it was a smooth process.
045Obviously over whenever you implement a new software there's going to be little hiccups but um overall it went well. We did that in December. Um we weren't unhappy with our current program. It was called um meals plus but unfortunately that program was suns setting um and so we had to move to a different program and we settled on Meal Magic after looking at a variety of different um options that we could use. Um and then we surveyed um the secondary students asking for feedback um on their meal experience and how we can you know always get better. Um and we got over,00 responses which was amazing. Um, some of them unfortunately were ones that we unfortunately can't use like Raising Canes and Chick-fil-A and Steak and you know I I I understand we you know
046I that I love to eat at those places too but they just don't work from our nutritional or from our budgetary constraints. Um but there were some things that were really um encouraging out of it um that we're going to try to look into. So there's always um an ask for more vegetarian options. And the tricky thing with vegetarian is you say you're vegetarian. I don't always necessarily know exactly what that means. You may eat milk. You may not drink milk. You may eat eggs. Um but either way, we're always trying to increase our options, especially when it comes to the plant-based. So, we've had um Impossible Burgers um that we offer to kids. We do a plant-based chicken patty that we've been doing at high school that we're going to take to the middle
047schools for next school year. Um, we're going to bring back falafel tots as part of a agape type um, bar that we're going to do at the high school level. And we're also going to try to do a bibby bop concept, too. Um, so those were all good things that kind of came out of the survey. Um, we're also going to try to do there were there also a lot of the kids are looking for higher protein allocart allocart items. um which you think would be easy enough to do, but unfortunately in the school segment, it's hard to find some some to find compliant protein bars. So, I have I've had many conversations with brokers and vendors and we're trying to find something like that. Um and then something simple as we got asked like,
048can we have the um soy butter and jelly pockets that we do at elementary at the middle school and high school? Like, of course, that's easy. We can do that. um for those students who may not be able to eat um nuts because of allergies. Um and then we had some really nice comments from the survey um that um it was really nice that students took the time to share these um with us and I just want to share a couple of them. So our cafe staff are so nice. One time one of them even recognized me outside of school at my job which just goes to show you that they care and are paying attention to us. They are so considerate. if you need to like ask about ingredients or anything, I just wish
049them the best because I feel like they are so underappreciated. So, it just made my heart happy. And then this other one is, I'm a graduating senior at Tangi High School. I've spent almost four amazing years here and some of the most special people I've met during that time have been the incredible lunch staff. Your kindness, your smiles, and the way you greet every student with such warmth is something I'll never forget. So, just really nice things to hear about your staff. Um these are some of the pictures from our food. Um so the one on the left that is our new chicken soft taco that we're doing at elementary. Um and we will be doing that next school year. Um then we have um some fruits. We have perogis with kbasa that we were
050trying as part of a global cuisine day. Um some fresh veggies. And then that last one is mac and cheese with um Cheetos on top that we tried and it was at Berlin Middle School they tried it and it went over very well. So you might be seeing that. I zoomed in on Cheetos. Yeah. Flaming hot and then regular Cheetos. I thought about like a month and a half ago I was speaking to a Boy Scout group and they they were just asking all these questions and one of them specifically brought this up and said, "Please keep it on the menu." Oh my gosh, that's awesome. I was like, the food service updates coming up. I want to make sure we tried it cuz we wanted to see what kids thought of it. So, that
051was a concept from Fredo Lake because they um obviously um make the Cheetos. So, um and then planning for this upcoming school year. So, we do have new added sugar requirements which we've never had um in school lunch, which I think is a wonderful thing. Um so, the first um phase in is that we are doing product based limits for breakfast cereals, yogurt, and flavored milk. And we this year were proactive and started making these changes because we wanted to see what student acceptance was. Did they even notice? And for the most part, they didn't notice um except for they were sad that Lucky Charms went away, but I'm happy to say Lucky Charms are back. They reformulated like a lot of manufacturers have done um so um Lucky Charms came back mid year. Um
052which is exciting. Um we have a new by American provision. We've always had a biamerican provision. So, we've always had to keep track of which um food items are not uh are non-domemestic. We just had to keep a list and when the state came in, we would show them the list. They were to review it. They would check our boxes to see if they know they could find anything else. Um but now they've put a cap cap at 10%. Um so we're still waiting from guidance from DEW. They're going to be doing some summer regional trainings. Um but obviously there are just some items we will never make in the United States. bananas, pineapple, mandarin oranges. So, those are going to be items. They're not going to go away, but we just have to be
053mindful that we're not spending over 10%. The goal is to eventually be at 5%. We are going to pilot um online production records in the kitchen. So, part of Healthy Pro, which is our menu planning software, they have production records. Um trying to use less paper and be more efficient because the menus will flow from the menu onto the production records and the schools can fill them out. they're our Bible. That's what they that's like our that is what the state looks at when they um come to audit us. And then also talking about that, we are up for an administrative and procurement review by DEEW. So we will find out probably in October when they will come out to audit us. Um they usually pick about four sites and they spend a couple days
054here in the district going to see meal service making sure we're cleaning meals correctly. It's always stressful. Um obviously especially if you're a site picked but I have 100% confidence that they will do whatever school is picked they will do fabulous in representing tangi. So oh and then these pictures. So there you see the woodle cups. Um that one has veggies and a hardcooked egg on it. Then that one has chicken in the middle. And then we're going to do these kid cuderies at elementary next year um that we hope the kids will take as part of a um alternate entree as we call them. Great. Any questions? Any other questions or Thank you. You're welcome. Appreciate it. Can I just um It all looks fantastic. I just want to know um I know last
055fall we implemented a new way that parents can pay for school lunches. Is there any plans to change any of that? Um like the check. Yeah. Um and that might be a question for as well, but we're not planning on changing that. I mean, I thought that went pretty well this year. I was happy to not pay credit card fees anymore. Yes, I agree too. Yes, but we'll still take we still take credit card. You can do credit card online or e checkeks and then obviously we always take cash. To be clear, the credit card fees still have are associated. It's if you're willing to do an e checkek. Yeah, you can avoid it by doing the e check. Correct. But if you use the credit card, I just know you mentioned I thought and
056maybe I misheard. Oh, yeah. Because I was talking about Yeah, I was referring to the echek, but thank you for the clarity. you. Yeah, just for the community, if you use a credit card, we're going to pass on to you the exact same fees we are assessed, roughly 3%. But if you're willing to do the e checkek, it's it's absolutely fee free. But make sure you type it in correctly. Correct. That happened to me once. Yeah. So, don't do it like in the dark. I know when you're when your child texts you at 10 a.m. and I don't have any money on my account, you can save it. So, that's what I I have mine saved so it always pulls out. Forget my money back. Sure. All right. Thanks so much. Thank you. All right.
057So nice. Oo Education Foundation. And before I get started, I just want to say that I have a desk over near Bethy's group. And they're not only fantastic people, but they always have the best little treats. So they're great people, too. Anyways, um good evening everyone. Um, I am here on behalf of Oland Tangi Education Foundation and I'm excited to be here because I have some really great news. Um, each year OEF is proud to support the amazing teachers and staff across our district by funding creative, innovative classroom grants that enhance the educational experience of all of our students. And this year is no exception. I'm happy to announce that for the school year, the OEF board has approved 74,134 in classroom grant funding. These grants will reach nearly every school in the district and
058help bring uh a wide range of projects. I wish I could tell you more, but we will not be um telling the winners of of this year's grants until July. And then after that, I will be sharing all the details. Um, so the staff and teachers will receive a notification early July. And then, um, I also want to invite all of you to our upcoming new fundraiser this fall. So, in the past, we've been doing Zoo and Tangi, which is always the Saturday before school starts. This year, we're changing things up. We're going into October. I already checked the calendar. October 11th, it is an OSU game day, but it's a noon game, and it's Illinois. I'm not a big OSU fan. I like OSU, but I don't follow. But I don't think that's that's
059a a a big big game. So hopefully everybody can make it. Um Saturday, October 11th, we're going to have our brand new annual fundraiser. It's called Homecoming Through the Ages. It's going to be at Brookshshire Event Center. Um and it's going to be a blast from the past. We're going to um have a live band. We're going to have some fun entertainment. We're going to have a homecoming court, which some of you may be nominated for. More information about that later. So, I hope to see all of you there and um thank you again for supporting OEF and for continuing to do great work here in TNG schools. So, thank you. Thank you so much. Thanks. All right. Uh Mr. Meyer. All right. Hey, Mary. Before you go, thank you for your work and for
060your partnership. uh with Tangi schools and I know that our teachers really appreciate it and again the grants and the money that you provide for the grants that the teachers submit obviously enhance the educational experience for our students and so we saw some of that uh here with uh with the um instructional technology uh projects but we definitely uh appreciate and so grateful for your partnership. So thank you. I'm sorry to leave. That's okay. I'm leaving for tomorrow for Hey, have fun. Have fun. And I think Bethany, Mrs. Linko, she's the only one that doesn't like snow days. Everybody likes snow days except and I always feel bad too when I come in and see her because we still report. So when I when I see her, it's like, ah, sorry about that. But we
061always we we are on the side of caution. So, um, and I do want to thank you for that, uh, awesome report because again, behind this behind the scenes and we talk about we have so many employees who work behind the scenes. I call them unsung heroes because of the impact that they make on the educational experience for uh, students and you heard some of those examples from uh, Mrs. Leno, but um, and you just think about how intentional and thoughtful we are within the food service program and that's how we are in the district and all of our departments. we just have some really really talented people um who work in the organization. So, thank you for your leadership. Uh in the food service department and uh and you know I I I think
062I appreciated the our one of our core values we can always get better and uh we have many people in the organization who really believe that. So, uh when we engage feedback and and input from um our students and families, it really uh means a lot on how we can best serve uh the school community. So, thank you for that. All right. So, I know that the school the 2425 school year has wrapped up, but we really never stop. Um, so obviously, uh, we ended with graduation there in May, but we continue on in the summer. So, today was the last day of Volunte's summer enrichment experience. Again, opportunities that we provide for uh, students across our district. So this year 1,565 student registrations participating in over 80 elementary and secondary morning and afternoon courses.
063Um and I really hear a lot of positive feedback from the courses and the experience that students have um in in these enrichment experiences. So want to thank our curriculum department for uh doing a great job putting this on every year. And as you can see, uh 72 teacher specialists and aids and administrators of course are the staff who um um work with our kids throughout the summer. So you can see the increase from uh last year to this year. So every year uh more and more students hear about the fun and uh sign up. So um now it's off to vacation, right? for for those. Um, also want to highlight our curriculum department. Again, uh, 10th annual uh, think tank professional learning conference at Liberty High School was held on May 29th. So, I
064believe that we had over uh, 200 um, employees attend. And for the first time uh, this year, we also had an administrator track. So, you can see uh, 25 uh, breakout sessions for teachers and administrators. And most of these sessions are by our own um, staff. So again, uh great job to our curriculum department and thank the uh staff members who attended uh that. You guys know I love kindergarten, right? Class of 2038. So uh kindergarten screenings during the first weeks of uh June. So you can see some pictures there welcoming the class of 2038. And like I said, at graduation, it's like a blink of an eye, poof, they're going to be at graduation in 2038. uh walking across the stage. So, um we're excited to welcome our new kindergarteners into uh the district.
065And so, as of today, we are um over 1,300 uh kindergarteners registered. So, it's only June 12th. We still have two months till school school starts. So, um I'm sure that we'll continue to see that. I think I just checked I think in two days I think we increased by 20ome student 20 20 some kindergarten students in uh two days. Um so obviously families continue to uh enroll and register their kindergarteners for the class of uh 2038. Um also want to highlight uh we're starting to induct our new staff members. So this was our first um new staff orientation and HR started this last year. So what they do is they bring in our new staff members in small cohorts throughout the summer. So four or five or six uh sessions and the reason we
066do that because it's more intimate setting to welcome and start the induction process with our new staff members and and we talk a lot about making uh and tangi big and tangi feel small for our employees. Um, so this is right from the get-go, um, what we do. So, they started last year signing day. So, you can see we signed our, it looks like there were a little over 20, um, uh, teachers here at this, uh, orientation yesterday. So, um, that's always a big hit. So, after the orientation, we do a big signing day congratulate congratulating them on being selected um, to uh, continue their career, to start their career in many cases here in Tangi. So, um, good job with the HR team and, uh, Miss Davis and I met the, uh, that cohort
067yesterday morning and they're ready to go. They're ready to go. So, uh, more good news on the athletic front. So, want to highlight all of our four high schools, but this, uh, Tangi High School, you can see um, the recognition and honors from uh, state track and field. want to highlight first time the men's team um fifth place overall but then uh first place there uh CJ and the boys discus and then you can see the other place uh the individuals who placed in the other events. Um also congratulations a big congratulations to uh Tangi baseball team and this was this was a hard region too. All four of our high school baseball teams were ranked one two three and four. Um Olen Tangi is coming out uh with an exciting win last week and
068so they will play Saturday in Canton uh against uh Lakota West I believe. So we're rooting for them. I had an email exchange uh with coach Lucas. So wish them the best on Saturday and then if they win the state uh or when they win Saturday, the state championship game I believe is in Akran on Sunday. So wish them the best. uh Liberty High School um girls lacrosse back-to-back state champions. So, we just kept keep winning state championships uh here in Tangi. Um I was I was at the game and just what a great game because uh first of all, UA showed up and they were ready. Um Liberty was behind the whole game, but really just grinded it out to tie it up almost with uh no seconds left on the clock there in
069the fourth uh fourth period. and then uh won in overtime. So, congratulations times, right? What's that? Double overtime. Yeah, double overtime. Yep, double overtime. So, congratulations to uh Liberty High School girls lacrosse uh program backto-back uh state champions. And then also to Laya who won uh state championship in the girls long jump and then uh Shane advanced to um the state and was in the state singles tennis tournament. So, congratulations to them. on to Orange High School. Uh you can see uh we had tennis qualifiers there in state doubles. Um and then also two first place state champions uh Brooke and Matt Matthew. They're in the 1600 meter. So Brooke is also backto back state champion and uh is going to have a good shot at three repeating next year because she's only junior. She's
070coming back. Um so just her and Matthew are boyfriend and girlfriend. Oh, they are? Oh, well Kevin Owen the team got okay last year. That's like okay. Okay. Um that that's awesome. So congratulations to uh those individuals from Orange High School and then um Berlin High School. Congratulations to Miles there who uh was took second place in the boys 300 meter hurdles. Oh, is Mindy? Where is M? Oh, yeah. Mindy son's on the old Tangi baseball team. So, she's a proud mama. Mindy shows. What time you leave? Are you leaving tomorrow or are you leaving Saturday? I'm leaving Saturday, but the boys cut off at tomorrow. Yeah, I knew they were leaving tomorrow. So, parents, we get to go watch them at Huntington Park practice. And then they'll then I'll head there Saturday. Okay. Awesome.
071All right. Hey, enjoy every every moment. Okay. All right. All right, superintendent action items. So, we uh it's that time of year where we have um uh opportunities to bring uh new staff uh into the organization. So, we have some administrative employment recommendations uh for tonight and one, two, three, four, five are here. So, I do want to introduce uh Brock Balden uh who's being recommended for Orange Middle School assistant principal. Brock's there. Lindseay Moltz being recommended for assistant principal at W Creek Elementary. Erica Cypic, where's where's Eric? Right there's Erica. Tyra Run Elementary assistant principal. Ryan Washington, Liberty High School. Back in the back there. So, uh, congratulations. So, here in a few minutes, um, the board will vote. So, we're keeping our fingers across get across the finish line. But, uh, welcome to
072and Tangi. Um, you you all have done a good job in the interview process and you're coming to a great great organization. So, um, congratulations and thank you. I always appreciate when when you all show up to these meetings and I hope what it it shows you a little bit is what we're all about, right? I mean this is this is very much how the schools operate and there's a culture of care and of excellence um and supporting the community. So thank you so much for being here and good luck. Absolutely. And also we have uh some retirements um so we have five retirements. So again always want to wish our retirees well in the next chapter of their life as they uh move on into retirement. So with these five individuals 71 years of
073service uh to tangi schools. So again I know that they've touched many many many lives uh during their time here in Tangi. So we're extremely grateful for their service. Did I forget Morgan? Yes. Morgan. [Music] So, Morgan N Morgan Nagel, see, our district leadership team is so good. They're always like on my shoulder, whispering in my ear. So, sorry about that. But Morgan uh is being promoted, elevated from assistant principal at Bergkshire to um principal at Bergkshire Middle School and did a really really phenomenal job in the process and uh overwhelmingly um was the choice from all of the feedback that we had uh for the next principal at Berkshire Middle School. So congratulations. All right. Uh business management facility items. So uh you can see five items. Mr. Gordon and uh Miss McDevit will
074come up and do a discussion item on these uh five items here. So, as you can see, we're asking the board to approve some district uh roofing and building envelope improvements uh purchase of district classroom furniture and uh Mr. Gordon through the capital project uh visits with the buildings and when uh furniture is outdated or we need new furniture obviously uh it's time to replace. So we work through that and then um the big item here is the approval of uh the change in insurance uh coverage. Um so they'll discuss that and then uh we do have a recommendation to approve amendment number two um with Fanning Howy there for design services for projects at Shanahan Middle School um in the amount of $130,000. All right, one important date. So next board meeting uh Thursday
075June 26th at 6:30 at Tangi High School. So that'll be the m meeting where we recognize um many of our community partners. So that'll be at Tangi High School at 6:30 on June 26th. Great question. All right. Sure. I have the location updated on my calendar so I don't go to the wrong spot. All right. Good. Thank you, Mr. B. Mr. Jenkins, [Music] when Mr. Gordon and uh Miss McDev come up a little bit, they're going to ask if you know what a building envelope is. Aren't you sure, Mrs. Dr. Blackley? Dr. Blackley knows. That's right. Just reminds me that you can push the envelope, but it's still just stationary. Thank you board members. We have new employees here. So the guys get to know the real me. Uh thanks board members. Appreciate the opportunity
076to speak tonight. One of the things that um we did a couple of weeks back, if you'll remember, I guess a couple of board meetings ago, uh we had the folks from Mount Carmel here um to talk about some of our wellness initiatives, Christy Gagas, uh who is one of our wellness nurses with uh Mount Carmel, and then her immediate supervisor, Susan Baker. So tonight, what I've done is I've asked uh essentially the rest of our team uh here and I have a few people I'd like to invite to come stand here real quick. Then they can sit back down unless they just want to continue to to stand here. So we have members from United Healthcare and we also have membersh Benefits. Um so we work with Milestone Benefits uh as kind of our
077broker agent. Uh but they're far more than just a broker agent. uh you know, Chad Smith, if you don't mind standing, Chad, uh is a is a really really good partner with the district. Um he takes care of so many things for so many employees. Um takes care of a lot of things for me. Uh so we're very very appreciative of the work that Chad does for Tangi Schools. Then from United Healthcare, we have Melissa Haymon. We also have Alice Vec. We have Ashlin Murphy. We have Mike Walter. And we have Ryan Sanders. So, this team I I brought tonight, and you can sit back down if you want. Um I brought them because uh a slide that you see behind us, we we um I'm not terribly good at being short on words, so
078we really worked hard to make this two slides. Um we meet year round. Uh we have quarterly insurance committee meetings. Uh just had our last one in May. Uh we work exceptionally hard with our associations uh with our staff to make sure that we're constantly reviewing the data. We have a comprehensive review with United Healthcare uh every six months uh taking a look at hot topics. Um sets our our foundation for all of our decisions. Uh we have again a health engagement nurse. We're going to have a a second slide here in just a minute to talk more about the work that Ashlin has done. Um, having a wellness nurse with Mount Carmel is fantastic, but then having what I would call more of an embedded wellness nurse who is able to work through and
079has access to some of the claims data to be able to help point us in the right direction on the types of things that we're seeing as a district. uh common conditions that uh we can try to work on together uh to keep our health care spend down. Um also available to help our employees navigate all the things uh that are UHC. And then finally, we are constantly making plan enhancement decisions. Um we are uh trying to tweak and create uh what is always a uh very thorough, very robust health insurance plan, but to do it in more cost-effective ways. Uh that is a continual process, lots of communication. Uh lots of work with the folks um with Milestone and United Healthcare. And then Ashlin gets a special shout out because this is a role
080uh that this year has really started to shine. Uh she has done a fantastic job. Um as you can see uh what we felt like we had with Mount Carmel was not anything that needed to be replaced. um it it could be augmented and enhanced. And in fact, we're working on uh some business partnership agreements and some information sharing back and forth. Uh everybody knows that HIPPA is is one of those fund laws where everybody has to say that they agree that they'll keep data uh private. And so we're getting all of that in place uh to really try to make sure that as a district we are constantly in the know uh with what um our data looks like uh for our healthcare. So, I wanted to thank the folks from United Healthcare for
081being here. They're fantastic team members. Um, and you don't have to stay any longer if you don't want to. I told them that they would be sitting here longer than the two slides. Um, but you're also welcome to stay. Um, I wanted to take some time to update the board and the community on two of probably the biggest bills uh that are impacting uh the district right now. Uh, essentially, House Bill 96 is the uh, state budget bill. And as Mr. Lester noted on I believe Wednesday uh of this week, yesterday I could have said uh the Senate passed uh their version of House Bill 96 which the House as we expected u promptly did not concur with. Uh so now the reconciliation process uh begins. We did hear today that we think they're planning
082to be done with a conference committee report on June 25th. It's still not a terrible amount of time. Um but in in years past, sometimes they don't get done until quite literally uh June 30th, even July 1st. So, we look forward to that. Uh because some of the provisions that we're dealing with is the state funding projections from the Senate. We didn't go down. So, we're we're thankful, but we we are going to stay relatively flat. Um, and I say that because the House version of the bill uh could increase our funding by as much as $18.7 million over the bienium. Uh, but the state's version, excuse me, the Senate's version looks more to on on the good news side, the fair school funding formula. On the bad news side, it does not increase those
083cost sets. If you're wondering why we stay flat, uh they do throw in a growth supplement of around $250 per student and they also throw in a supplement uh that is roughly another $400 or $500 for performance. And that's how we're kind of keeping uh kind of a tread water of around $1,450 to $1,500 per student across both years of the bienium. What type of performance has to do with the number of stars? Uh four or five. I think it's $26 per pupil times the number of stars and then there's some other factor. Um I thought it was maybe like for lacrosse or something that they're No. And so when you say it's relatively flat, does that mean in aggregate we're we're getting the same or does that mean per pupil? Because we're growing so
084fast that even if we're the same, we're still going down per pupil. So aggregate we're getting about the same amount per pupil. We're getting about the same. And and what's happening just slightly from year 1 to year two is the amount per pupil is increasing enough to kind of keep our nose above water. Otherwise, yes. Um it put differently, the base cost calculation is what the formula starts with. The base cost is still with 2022 cost sets going to drop into the $800 per student amount. But for the um supplements for growth and performance, uh we would have what unfortunately the the um as introduced version of the bill, the governor's version, and we would have had a pretty significant drop in funding. So gets it to us a little different way. Yeah. For everybody
085here that sort of has trouble contextualizing all this, $800, $1,400 from the state, somewhere in between there out of about $16,000 per student per year. That's correct. Right. So, it costs So, in Tangi, $16,000 per student, a little bit more, right? Um, and we're talking about maybe between $800 to $1,400 from the state. The rest of that money is the local community and like little bits here, federal government, you know, like tiny bits here and there, things like that. The vast vast majority of it is the local community. That's why I said at the outset, all of these options, you know, maybe we go up a little bit here, maybe we go up a little bit here. We're still well well well below I mean significantly significantly below what it costs us to educate kids.
086And so the local community has to to fill in that gap. The challenge with the clawback and not to steal your thunder on this but I it's I think it's important to keep it in context. The challenge with the clawback is that when the local community approves money for us to be able to use through levies, the clawback would take that away. So we're not getting it on the state end and they're taking away money that we would get from the local community. That's a threat to public education. And that is a perfect segue to the last two bullet points. The House's version was 30. We're at 50. Uh, you know, we had hopes that it would come out entirely. That's just not going to happen. Uh, so some version of the clawback is almost
087certain uh to survive. I I I am guessing. Uh, we want to make it as high as possible. Certainly, our our stated position is is there doesn't need to be one. We've passed policy uh as a as a board of education, as a school district. Uh you know, we're mindful of our resources. We're transparent. We're open. U nothing that we do uh is obscured from the public. Uh but despite all of that, it looks like some version of the clawback uh is is probably going to make it over the finish line. And no other governmental entity is subject to a clawback of the money that they raise. Is that correct? That's correct. only schools. What schools and not all schools only traditional K12 public schools uh career techs um and the island school districts uh
088middle bass uh all the ones up on Lake Erie for some reason they're exempted too and not private schools get state voucher funding right now. That's correct. the the administrative and auxiliary uh state funding, which is about 14 or $1,500 per pupil, will continue uh to flow um as needed for non non-pubs, but that's just the minimum there minimum. There can be much more for private schools through other programs from the state. That's correct. Um so the same student, just so I'm clear because I'm I'm I'm following this idea of the money follows the child, right? That's only for private schools. That doesn't because if the same student goes to a private school, they could get what's the maximum for a pri for a voucher? Uh 912 sticks out to me. It's a little over
089$8,000. $8,000. If that student But if they come back to Tangi, our base cost starts around $800 next year. $800. So onetenth of that. That's correct. So the money doesn't follow the kid. Uh the formula is not the same. Yeah. formula is not the same. Well, and Mr. Lester, you said a threat to public education. Absolutely. But I still maintain also a threat to democracy because people, our community voted on these levies. This was the will of our community and our state legislature says what you want doesn't matter, right? So, I deeply don't understand that. House Bill 96, the Senate's version goes a little bit further. um beginning January 1 of 2026, um there's no more authority to levy replacement levies. What a replacement levy is is over time as tax reduction factors roll the
090effective millillage back. Uh there currently is a type of levy that will allow you to replace that millillage up to the original voted amount. Um those are being phased out. Fixed some emergency levies. Uh we've not passed any fixed some emergency levies here. uh other school districts I've been in, it's exactly what it sounds like. The levy is for a fixed sum of money as opposed to a millage tax rate. Um any current expense levy for any school that has a cash carryover of 100% or greater is now prohibited. Uh well, I shouldn't say now. If this version of the Senate u bill gets through, if you had cash carryover in your general fund of 100% or greater, you would be barred uh from seeking any operating levies. And then I really probably should have
091the word and in the next bullet point made it italicized. I don't want to sound like it's the renewal uh the incre it's the it's the combo. The renewal and increase at the same time of any existing levy is prohibited. um it simply is renewal only. So if there is a um millage reduction which is going to happen over time essentially as property values go up those rates will come down no longer can there be any type of levy that seeks to replace that reduced millillage. So, circling back to our conversation we've had since um last spring, is this where did the Senate then take up the idea of if you fail a levy, we will then because I know the governor didn't. I asked you about that and you were unambiguous unless you told
092somebody something different privately, which you said you didn't. So, the governor's version did not do anything for districts that fail levies. That's correct. The House version did not do anything for anybody that fails levies. Correct. the Senate did or did not? No. So, in no way, shape, or form does this budget help us because our levy failed. I've been doing this for a couple of decades, and at no point have I ever seen any state budget bill that says if a local school district will fail enough levies, the state will give them extra funding. What ends up happening is ultimately if a local school district runs out of funds, those schools go into fiscal emergency uh instead. State takes over. That's correct. That's right. Yeah. They don't give us more money. No. They just come
093in and No. If if if there is a out if there is a strategy in any community um that the line of thinking is is when you fail a levy at some point the state will step in and rescue the school. Uh, no. That I mean unless you consider fiscal insolveny saving the school that that I don't think those two are analogous at all. It I mean it's a choice. It's been a choice for decades as to how the state has chosen to fund schools. And for districts like Owen Tangi, what they've decided is we're not going to give you a whole lot of money. Local taxpayers are going to have to make it up. And either they do or they don't. And what we've seen is our local community has stepped up and you
094know passed these levies over time and they're frustrated because they're paying a lot that the state isn't and we get it like get it. It's tough to continue to see that when the state isn't doing that. Um the obvious solution is for the state to come in and start paying you know some reasonable amount of money, not you know pennies on the dollar for every um for every student. And yet instead we're seeing that they're not doing that and they're making it harder for communities to support their schools. Right? It's a real challenge, right? And it is not to dismiss the concerns of the community around rising costs. We all we're all in the community. We all experience that. It's a very real thing. But that's where the state can, you know, it it's what
095priority do you do you want? Do you want to fund public schools? Do you want to fund the Cleveland Browns? Do you want to do this? Right? and they've they've sort of shown where their priorities are lying and I think it's just important that people understand that that they speak to the legislators that they talk about this because it it's having real impacts not just in our schools but in our communities. So to that point, one of the other things um I don't remember, I want to say late 80s that if you kind of looked at the split between commercial um and industrial uh and residential property taxes, it was pretty close to 50/50, which is sort of a goal. uh over the last 25 years it has shifted to where I believe that split
096is more like 6832 with local um homeowners through residential property taxes picking up a vast amount of the local property taxes there. you know, it it it's challenging because we want to make Ohio certainly a businessfriendly state and we want in order for uh opportunity. Uh but it's also challenging over time as the all of those factors have kind of impacted and I know a lot of our residents have expressed um you know the desire for tax relief and certainly uh having a a funding stream from the state of Ohio that is predictable, that is known, and that is adequate uh is what we've always said one of the the best forms of property tax relief. Um because where we can't get it from those other sources, we simply have to get it from the
097local sources through local levies. Would we do better if the state just fully funded fair school funding plan? Yes, we would. Absolutely. So that would provide tax relief to our taxpayers because the less we the more we get from the state, the less we have to ask from them. In my humble opinion, if they would fully fund, which technically they will, uh, but I I presume what you mean, Dr. Dabbero, by fully fund is also keep the cost sets relevant, not five or six years in the rear view. Um, if they did that, that would be a dramatic lift um for all public schools, but most certainly for Old and Tangi. So the other thing uh that on all levies beginning January 1, 2026 in the Senate version, we will have to put on all
098ballot language for current operating levies the percentage uh of our carryover also the amount. Um so you know right now uh I don't mind saying this uh we would have to say that as of right now for Tangi schools based on the forecast if this was June 30th of 2025 our carryover would be about 52 to 53% and about $194 million. And I get it, $194 million uh is a sum of money that any of us would like to have privately, but that's $194 million on about a $400 million all-in budget. It's the equivalent of having six months in reserve. Um 6 months of reserve is kind of natural when you think that our real estate settlements come six months apart. So, we have to be able, you know, we just got a real estate
099settlement uh in March. We will not get another real estate settlement until August or September. So, it has to last. It kind of seems logical that at a minimum uh you would you would need 6 months of cash, but like any private homeowner, I'm sure everyone tries to keep a reasonable level of money set aside for emergencies, uh other types of things. I would even submit should some of the things that are in this bill actually get through, but for the fact that we have a reasonable reserve, it would be a far more panicstricken uh type of uh thought process of how we were going to deal with this. You know, we we've got the reserves to allow us to plan and think thoughtfully rather than, you know, you might have some districts that's just
100not the case. Um, so finally, uh, five-year forecasts become three-year forecasts. I I know that feels like less work. Uh, but it it just doesn't I prefer the five-year forecast. That's more logical and that's how far we're planning out. Uh, we're looking five years out staffing-wise, facility-wise. I mean, facility-wise, we're looking 20 years out. Um, so I'm not sure that that this really fixes um, you know, when we kind of brought up the reason for the cash balance was how far out we have to plan. It almost felt like this was, "Oh, well, we'll fix that for you. Now you only have to plan out three years." You know, that doesn't doesn't necessarily match, I think, what some of our intent was with that comment. Did they did they pass anything in this that requires
101us to modify our policy of of of actually being fiscally responsible and looking five years ahead or I mean no are they saying you can no longer look ahead you can no longer do your job as as No, they're saying when we report it to the state we would only have to report the sentence version goes three years back the current year and three years forward. So it's still kind of four years. Um the House version, the way I read it, it it was just three years forward. But I I'll have to know the it is not that we cannot continue to plan as we want. It just the uniform way it will be reported to the state of Ohio would be three years. The next bill that is really um I can understand where
102this is coming from and I certainly want property tax relief uh for our homeowners and for residents in the state of Ohio. Unfortunately, there are some provisions of House Bill 335 that I I I just don't understand um how the either intended or unintended consequences that would come with that tax relief would almost destroy uh all local services. Um so what 335 really did was combine uh three major bills that have already been kicked around and deliberated. House Bill 129, 186 and 309. Essentially the big uh you know surprise and not surprise in a good way was it will outlaw the levying of inside mills. We have five inside mills as a district and those five inside mills if they were gone right now would be a $35 million loss in funding for Tangi schools.
103The only entities, so this one is spread around a little more equitably, so to speak, are townships. And that's because townships don't have the authority to raise revenue uh with income taxes. So immediately, uh if this law were in effect, um starting with tax year 25, pay 26. Starting in January of 2026, uh we would lose for that tax collection year $35 million. So that's alarming. Um the other things that it it does is for schools that are in the 20 mil floor, it will essentially create an offset that will say if the increases in those districts are higher than the GDP deflator, uh think inflation, uh there would be a credit so that those communities with schools at the 20 mil floor have a relief valve that keeps their taxes from going up in
104a commenurate way. We've talked long about as a district, we're above the 20 mil floor. When our property tax taxes increased in 20 strike that when our property values increased by 35% back in tax year 23, the average tax bill across this district changed around 7 to 8%. Most people think value goes up 30%, collections for governments go up. That is not the case. For districts at the 20 mil floor, that can be the case. And so this is tax relief in those districts. It also keeps that 30% clawback and it codifies it in other ways. And it gives essentially the budget commission the authority to hold public hearings where individuals can come out and lobby the budget commission essentially for why a school district or government entity does not need full collections because they
105have enough already in reserve. Back to your previous bullet point. I know it won't be every district but aren't most of those 20 mil floor districts they would be flipped from us. they would be more reliant on state funding in general. Um, a lot of your rural areas and a lot of places like that have gotten to the 20 mil floor uh because yes, over time they have other revenue sources that does not make them like an Oland Tangi where we grow so dramatically that we have no choice but to pass levies to keep up. That's that that could be an accurate statement. Yes, it does the same thing as House Bill 96. It's going to outlaw emergency substitute levies, prohibits uh the renewing of existing emergency levies, and then it also is going to
106make all levies current expense only. And part of that is because a emergency levy is outside of the 20 mil floor. So, one of the little nuances, it's in law. Um, you know, it's not like schools created it, but a fixed sum levy is not calculated in the total millage that adds up to the 20 mills. It's outside of that. So, oh, go ahead. Um, a lot of this stuff has been listed in here and and um advertised as property tax relief. And I know this isn't in your slides, but just from what I've been reading, this legislature has actually proposed an income tax instead. Is that right? The legislature is proposing an income tax. Is that what you're saying? For schools or they're saying schools, but like so they're saying look at all this
107property tax relief. Your taxes are going to go down on one side over here with the schools, but overall that it's not necessarily the case. Correct. if they were to then impose a 2 and a half or three and a half% income tax which I believe has been proposed. I've not heard that they are proposing an income and strictly to fund schools. Is that No, not not for schools. So I think what I'm trying to say is like this is being proposed as property tax relief and everybody's going to have property tax relief because we're not going to collect property taxes anymore. We're going to return this money back to people. that for the schools that just means that they're essentially limiting us from being able to fund our schools while also still collecting money
108in other ways for other things that the state wants. Is that um I would say almost that the state is with the Senate's version going to a flat 2.75% income tax. Okay. Um, I'm not aware that they're doing any other augmentation to their ability to pull in revenue. Um, maybe I've just not uh caught all all pieces of the bill. There's been so much coming from all different sides that Yeah. So there has been discussion um around the house bill 335 uh about um local school districts or counties or cities to diversify the revenue sources. So to diversify a revenue source, obviously we rely on uh property tax, but uh so an example might be to increase an income tax or to vote on an income tax for Tangi residents or to increase the sales
109tax in Delaware County um which would create alternative revenue sources potentially for the school. So, there has been conversation about that uh as far as diversification um relative to this bill. But the distinct difference that I thought maybe you were asking about that I'll segue off of Mr. Meyer, the state isn't just going to do that for us, right? Those all would still have to be voted on and approved. So, while they've brought up that schools could diversify and do a school a school district income tax, that would still be a vote that our constituents would have to take as to whether they wanted a school district income tax and they would have to pay for correct. So, it's the same it's the same story. We're just talking about a different way income instead of
110property. We could also approve it and then the state could come back and say we disregard the will of the people. We're going to do what we want. Yeah. Well, I was going to piggy back off of this uh because I feel like we're kind of getting the same thing. I know you're not one of the legislators who put this in in front of us, but could you in a very concise I mean tax relief is what I'm gathering, but I'm just looking for like the the a very simple concise like this is the grand goal of these things because this math isn't mathing for me and I'm not under I don't understand how this truly benefits our community. Certainly devastating to our school district, to our students, to our families. So I I'm just
111I need like how how is this being posited as a as a win for anyone? I suppose if you felt as if the local services that are provided by fire and EMF and your local school district and your local library. I suppose if you felt like you didn't care whether those entities were able to uh meet their financial obligations to be able to serve the community, you could view this in isolation as I don't care, my tax bill got less. Uh but you're you're correct, Dr. Wallik, that it would be tax relief that in many ways could eviscerate those public services. Um I don't know how else to put it. And if someone sees that as I don't care. Um, you know, I I live over here by myself and I don't bother anybody and
112they don't bother me. We all drive on roads. Uh, if our house catches on fire tomorrow, we're hoping somebody shows up to put it out in a timely manner. In a timely manner. If somebody breaks into our home, we're we're hopeful that, you know, police will will respond. And certainly, we all want good schools uh for our kids to go to. So, we are for, if you're okay with me collectively saying we, we are for property tax relief, and we've seen some bills uh and pieces that we think could do that. Certainly, uh my mind goes to a a means-ested expansion of homestead credits. Um, I have a strong uh feeling for when I hear people maybe who've lived in the community for 30 or 40 years that express the fact that their home and
113the taxes that they pay now are as high as any mortgage payment that they ever paid. Now granted, their mortgage was probably started in the early 1980s and inflation has moved that up, but no one would ever want to feel like uh you know that a person was, as the old adage goes, taxed out of their home. Um so I think the solution is there. I feel like some of these solutions are quicker, faster, and unfortunately don't uh envision or do depending on how nefarious you think some of these decisions are uh the impact that will happen uh to local school districts, fire departments, townships. Um you mentioned Dr. Wallicanin income tax. It doesn't matter where the revenue comes from. If the clawback's in place, they could they'll turn around and take it out of
114property taxes. So, we view all of this honestly in tandem as putting us on the ballot far more frequently. Uh it might be, but it's going to have to be for smaller asks because if you have that ceiling that you can't hit, you're why why would you ask for something that would inflate your collections for a given year only to have it swept away? So, I don't see this as property tax relief. I see this as creating a scenario where we will constantly uh be coming back to our constituents uh to keep up and and we'll constantly be in crisis because if one of those fails, all of a sudden we're in a bad financial situation, right? So, you know, everybody is moving here. Like, we're getting 500 new students every year. We have for
115the past 10 years, we're going to get them for the next 10 years. No one is moving here because they say, "Well, geez, I hate good schools and I hate libraries and I hate services." Like, if that's what you hate, this is I mean, well, and people stay here, too, because of the community that's been created by the schools and the educated workforce that we have as a result of the great education that our kids have gotten when they graduated 10, 20 years ago and before and continue to apply that in the community. I mean, it's all just sort of we see what the benefit of good schools are, right? We see it every single day in our community. This is nothing but an attack on that, right? It is the net result is we're
116giving you minimal state funding. We're taking away your ability to maintain the funding that your community is giving you. We're taking away your other funding sources and we're requiring stuff that's going to give a misimpression of what your financial situation is when you do go on the ballot so that it's going to be harder to pass those things, right? I mean, just think about the collective impact of all of these things. So, why are we doing this? Yes, it's rhetorical. Well, I'm going to say one bold thing perhaps. Um, nefarious is a strong word. I won't go that far, but mo motivation, what motivates people to make these decisions. I think it's always fun to do a deep dive into campaign contributions and see who's giving money to the legislators and then following their votes.
117Just saying if you're bored, do a little deep dive. Other questions? So heavy size, but thank you for being Johnny on the spot with all your with all your numbers. I appreciate it very much. Um the Inquisition has thus ended. You're always on the hot seat from us on budget stuff. So, I appreciate your, you know, and that's what makes you such a valued resource to our community cuz you could answer as we make decisions because we still have to have a school district that that's going to maximize um every single kid. These kids come in here, they don't know anything about budgets and they don't know anything about the nefarious nature of the legislation coming out or alternative alternate agendas that people have. So, we're still going to going to do the best we
118can for all those hundreds of kindergarters, class of what? 2038. 38. Yeah. Um, so, thank you. And and I would end it with on a positive note, I have the same faith and and know that regardless um this community and the folks who work for this district, the folks who are part of this board are going to continue uh to make that happen. It just may be that we have to uh you know be very diligent, very very very vigilant uh and work to continue to make sure uh that folks are aware um that some of these challenges just don't I guess the the feeling I'm left with is I'm just not sure why they need to happen. Um, but you know, without trying to dismiss some of what we've heard from people with, you
119know, being stressed by property taxes and whatnot, uh, I don't I don't think this gets that solution. But I I love to say this to the DT and everybody else who hears this, I suppose laws and sausages uh, should be watched. Not you shouldn't watch them being made if you like either of them. So, uh, treasures action items, the, uh, move to strike that for the, uh, board minutes from May 21st. Uh, then, as we, uh, mentioned earlier with Mary Loren's, I'll cut to the middle bullet point, put the $74,000 for Tangi school grants. I know uh, the teachers in the district uh, have grant projects that are really fun, and those make those possible. Uh we have musical instruments uh that were donated uh to Alum Creek. Uh and then finally uh Peachblow Crossing.
120Uh we had a um serve Ohio grant day and I believe they put a rain garden or something like that at Peachblow and the the cost of the materials is what you see there. So it was a very very cool thing at at PeachBlow. And that is it. I do have one public participation. I'll read it as soon as I sit down. Sounds good. Thank you, Mr. Jenkins. So, we have uh Jennifer Jükovich uh who is here to speak about busing from Powell to St. Michael. Where is St. Michael? Hi, good evening board. Thank you for your time tonight. Uh I am Jennifer Jükovich and I'm joined by Alex Soek who is um another represents another family um affected by this issue. Uh I am a proud uh PAL resident since 2014 and the mother
121of two students that attend St. Michael School. And I'm here tonight to address a decision that has caused a significant concern within our community and that is the discontinuation of busing from PAL to St. Michael. Um despite the continued presence of two St. Michael school buses um on the east side of the Olangi school district. So busing, we've been told that busing will remain on the east side but is being taken away from the PAL side. Um this decision to cut our PAL busing is particularly baffling given that it appears to be based on last year's wrership numbers. While from our estimates, again, I'm just a mom. I don't know all the numbers, but from what I can gather, the wrership for next year is actually going up. Uh more PAL families are choosing St.
122Michael and this decision fails to acknowledge that growth. Um to arbitrarily cut this service based on outdated data, especially when buses are already running from St. Michael just a few miles away is an oversight that directly impacts taxpaying families in Powell. Um we contribute to this dis district. We support this district and we rely on these services. At the very le least, if direct um neighborhood busing is truly unfeasible, we implore the board to consider providing at least one central bus stop within Powell um for the St. Michael students that live on that side of the district. This would offer a muchneeded and reasonable solution for the many families who call Powell home and send their children to St. Michael. So, we rec uh urge you to reconsider this decision. Thank you very much. Great.
123Thank you so much. Appreciate it. All right. I'm now going to move to our discussion items. So, our first discussion item uh is intent to rehire retire superintendent uh Meyer uh for the page school district for 2526. So at our last board meet, I'm sorry, not our last board meeting, two board meetings ago, uh we put a notice on the agenda of uh of this being considered at this board meeting. Uh we have by law there are certain um you know various steps that you have to take. Um despite I guess starting work at about age five or so u because he's now gotten enough years to be able to uh retire uh Mr. admire uh as he's looking toward his next contract uh which we've been discussing with him uh indicated a desire to
124potentially be rehire retired. Um revised code section 3307 uh 353 requires us to hold a public meeting on that which we've got we gave notice on May 8th and then we have to then wait at least 15 days after this meeting to decide whether to take action. So we have it's sort of a a statutory thing. So, our next um opportunity to take uh action on this will be our board meeting on July 9th. Um what I'll say about retire rehire is that this is something that um is done in a number of school districts across the state. It's something that is is considered in a lot of places. Um it uh does not cost the school district any extra money. Right? So, this is a very important thing to understand that this is not
125an additional cost on the school district if a superintendent retire rehires. it simply allows uh whether it's a superintendent or a teacher or anybody else that that sort of goes through this um that it it gives them this opportunity to collect the deferred compensation that they've put into retirement once they've reached retirement eligible age. Um so uh in Mr. Meyer's case, this is something that we uh indicated that we would be uh open to considering as we've discussed in the contract with Mr. Meyer. Um, if that were to go through, if we were to approve it at our July 9th board meeting, uh, what would happen is he would forfeit his first two months of retirement pay, as I understand sort of how the retirement system works. Um, and would allow him to then, you
126know, continue on and serve, um, as a superintendent beyond that. Um, this is something that we've always got to consider. It's sort of the reality of the world, especially as we have a lot of people that, you know, spend a lot of time in the schools. Um, as we're very lucky to have a lot of teachers and and administrators choose to do that. Um, it's I think it frankly would put us at a bit of a competitive disadvantage if we were not willing to consider that. Um, we indicated that we'd be willing to consider that as we work through a contract, but ultimately it has to come up for our July 9th board meeting for approval. Um, so this is just part of the process of notifying the community that we're considering this, that we'll
127ultimately make a decision on it at our July 9th meeting. Um, and of course, if any community members in the meantime have any comments or concerns, they're they're free to reach out to us. We're always happy to to have that discussion. Um, but that that's sort of the basics of this. That's the statutory process. That's sort of the the idea behind it. Um, if any other board members have any other comments, happy to entertain those, but ultimately, like I said, our full decision will be at the 9th. Okay. All right. That is our first discussion item. Uh the second discussion item is Mr. Gordon coming to speak about office and district uh business office and district insurance updates. Good evening. Well, I'm going to quickly cover the uh two Shanahan items and then I'm going
128to ask Miss McDev to come up. I don't think you all have met her yet. She's our director of business management facilities and has spearheaded that uh process of of uh getting uh bids for insurance. So, uh, the two items that I just want to touch on quickly as we've talked several times as we've done projects, uh, working through the summer for projects about ongoing things at Shanahan. Um, one of the items on there tonight is roofing and building envelope repairs. Uh, if anybody needs an explanation of that, I'm happy to give that to you after the meeting, but I'm going to assume that you already know what it is, and I will not um give you any jokes on that. Um the uh Shanahan the the roofing that we're doing this summer is in
129a direct result of the uh roof leaks we had at the end of the school year uh that came up suddenly in the part of the building near the music room. So uh as we've explored and looked at areas where that could be coming from, we we found some weaknesses in the uh the building walls, the blocks after years. some of that um what used to be uh moisture proof water. We'll work through there as well as some other roofing uh damage that just over time as the roof has aged that we're going to address uh this summer to to try to take care of that that issue. So, there are several roofs on on Shanahan. This is actually the third layer of a roof. So, um, we're we had a little trouble tracking that
130down and so we're hitting many areas, uh, to take care of these leaks as well as, uh, the contract for the ongoing projects at Shanahan for Fanning for the design services. Did you have any questions on that part? Okay, Miss McDev, board members, Mr. Meyer, Mr. Jenkins. I'm here to present a summary of the district property and casualty um insurance renewal. We begin an extensive application process in March and it continues followed by site reviews and um risk management audits that continue until almost the time premiums are due back which is the end of May. And um there I tally all the responses across the major coverage areas. Most years after all that work, we do not receive a premium quote from anyone except Liberty Mutual except this year, which is why I'm here. The
131current premium quote being recommended for board approval from the Ohio school plan is 1,117,845 representing a 23% increase over the previous year. This aligns closely with our forecasted budget increase of 25% based on the prevailing market trends that we've been made aware of and also the D uh district's recent storm claim. This uh proposal is $45,716 less than the um submission by Lauderbach and Elber uh through Liberty Mutual. One other insurance company withdrew on May 27th. Since this represents a shift from using a traditional commercial carrier, I'd like to provide some additional information about the Ohio school plan. It's a risk sharing pool tailored specifically for public school districts in Ohio. They have 366 members. It's governed by a board of school officials that focuses on the unique risk exposures of educational institutions. And the
132best part about the program and the package is that it gives us 3 million more in both perurrence and per aggregate coverages. So right now we have 1 million to 3 million. This would increase us to four million6 million in coverage. Um, and the plan absorbs the first 150,000 per casualty claim and 500,000 per property claim with the remainder covered through reinsurance. The reinsurers are all AM and A++ rated. So, I I think that speaks very highly of um who they're working with as well. The claims would be managed by Highland Administrative um services. So I welcome any questions you may have. Questions? All right. Cool. Thank you. Thank you. All right. We will now move into our uh consent action items. Uh Mr. Jenkins. Uh board members, as mentioned in the treasures report, um
133I have just two items this evening. I'm asking that these two items u be accepted and motion to adopt both of them as one single action item unless a board member or board members would like to uh take one of these items out and discuss it separately. Item A is the approval of the board meeting minutes from May 21st. And then item B uh is the approval of the noted donations. Um, and again, I'm asking that those are approved by one single motion and action unless there's further discussion warranted. Would anyone like to discuss any of these separately? Hearing none, can I have a motion to approve them as a single slate of consent action items? So moved. A second. I'll second it. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none. Mr. Jenkins. Dr. Wallik. Yes. Mr.
134O'Brien. Yes. Miss Shriber. Yes. Mr. Lester. Yes. Dr. Mr. Dabberco. Yes. All right. Mr. Meyer, the superintendent consent action items. Thank you, Mr. Lester. Board members, I recommend approval of the following superintendent consent action items. Uh A through E. Uh A, specific human resource items administrative. B specific human resource items certified staff. C specific human resource item supplementals. D specific human resource items classified. E, business management and facility items which consist of recommendation for approval um of uh proposal for improved roofing and building envelope improvement. Uh also the purchase of district classroom furniture from educational furniture as well as Martin public seating. um approval of the cost of district property fleet and liability insurance coverage with Ohio school plan from July 1st, 2025 through July 1st of 2026 in the amount of 1,117,845 and then
135recommend approval of amendment two uh to the existing agreement with Fanning Howley for design services for projects at Shanahan Middle School in the amount of 130,000. I'm asking you to approve these items by one single action vote and single action and vote unless you'd like to discuss any of these items separately. Would anyone like to discuss any of these separately? We can draw it out for the people in the room who are waiting for the vote. So, all right, hearing uh no interest in that. Can I have a motion to approve? So moved. A second. Second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none. Uh Mr. Jenkins. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. M. Shriber. Yes. Mr. Lester. Yes. Dr. Dabberco. Yes. Dr. Wallak. Yes. And we have one chief human resources officer. Action item. Mr. Lester. Board
136members, I recommend approval of action item 10A, specific human resources items, classified substitutes. Okay. Uh I will entertain a motion to approve. So moved. A second. Second. All right. Any discussion? All right. Hearing none. Mr. Jenkins. M. Shriber. Yes. Mr. Lester. Yes. Dr. Dabberco. Yes. Dr. Wallik. Yes. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. All right. I will now entertain a motion to enter into executive session pursuant to uh revised code 12122G8 uh for negotiations with other political subdivisions regarding requests for economic development with respect to higher revised code 5709.40. You can find those online. They're great sections. Can I entertain a motion? So moved. Second. Second. Right. The only discussion I'll note is we're only going to be coming back to adjourn, not to take any uh substantive action. All right. Uh with that, Mr. Jenkins. Mr. Lester.
137Yes. Dr. Dabberco. Yes. Dr. Wallak. Yes. Mr. O'Brien. Yes. Miss Shriber. Yes. All right. Thank you. All right, it is 9:30 p.m. Uh, we're returning from executive session. I will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So moved. Second. Any discussion? All right, Mr. Jenkins. Oops. Was too quick for him. Mr. Lester, yes. Dr. Dabberco, yes. Dr. Wallock, yes. Mr. O'Brien, yes. Miss Shriber, present. I don't think that cat look