001for and most importantly what receiv all right uh thank you everybody it's the uh February 22nd uh regular board meeting of the O Tangi Local School District Board of Education we're coming to you from the Berlin room at the ol Tangi administrative offices uh I'll call this meeting to order Mr Jenkins can you please call the role Mr Lester here Dr dabco here Dr wallik here Mr O'Brien here Mr shriber here all right if you join me in the Pledge of Allegiance I I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay I don't believe we have any amendments to the agenda okay uh can I get a motion to approve the agenda
002so move second second all right Mr uh any discussion all right Mr Jenkins Dr dbco yes Dr wallik yes Mr O'Brien yes M shriber yes Mr Lester yes okay we'll move on to the board president's report uh so uh always glad to see uh people here in uh in the audience to uh to see the workings of the board so I appreciate everyone being here um as everyone knows we've got a levy campaign going on we have a number of ways for people to learn more information it's our responsibility as a school district to provide that information uh so that the voters can make up the minds for themselves uh we have a number of community conversations that have been going on I know all of us have attended some of these I find them
003to be extraordinarily uh informative and helpful so I would encourage everyone that has not had a chance to attend one of those to come up we still have a couple left uh and then I believe we've got or not I believe I know that we have uh our board uh or our FAQs on the district website so a lot of the commonly asked questions and as we hear questions that are coming up at those Community conversations we're adding those in uh to the FAQs to keep those current for any questions that people have um so there's really a lot of different places we're also doing a lot of social media post to provide information and again I I just encourage everyone to to seek out that information um one of the benefits of those Community
004conversations for us to go there is to hear a lot of questions that people are raising themselves and I i' like to take this opportunity to just answer some of those uh each week as you know just based on the ones that we've been hearing uh one of the ones that has come up recently is when you you know the way that we've talked about this Levy is that it's a three-part Levy there's a three Mill operating uh uh uh there's 3 mil for operating 1.25 Mills for permanent Improvement and a no new millage Bond that would allow us to build five schools that you know we believe are needed based on the enrollment patterns that are coming in here that bond is being presented to the community as a no new millage Bond meaning
005that there will be no additional Mills that would be levied you know to to pay for those schools based on that Bond when you go to the auditor's site though if you're trying to calculate what your taxes are the auditor has 2.72 Ms that are listed there and people are asking well if the auditor sites say 2.72 mil and you all are saying that it's no additional Mills how does that work what does that mean uh we're going to have Mr Jenkins talk about this a little bit more in the treasurers report but I wanted to talk about it here um the the auditor is required to assign a value to what they think that we might need to do to or what we might need to collect to do this or what we would
006be authorized to collect to do this it is not necessarily what the school district will actually collect and this district has a history uh over a long period of time of presenting to the community that we are doing no additional millage bonds and then also not actually raising the millage even if we have the legal authority to do that so some recent examples are in 2011 2016 and 2020 uh all three of those we had a bond where we said that it will be a no new millage Bond and in each of those we did not raise the millage whatsoever we are confident based on our projections based on the way that that we have a history of doing this that we would not need to raise any uh millage for that Bond portion of
007it for the the operating 3.0 Mills the 1.25 for permanent Improvement we are asking for those to be raised but for the bond we believe that we do not need to do that and we have a history of doing that in each of these other levies in fact the the millage rate associated with that has actually gone down over time including just this past year when this board got together last fall to affirmatively lower that by 75 Ms and then we talked more with the auditor and we actually reduced it 1.25 Ms so even though we've passed a number of issues where we had the authority to raise that millage we have not done it we will not do it again based on this based on all the things that we we uh are representing
008to the community and in fact we've lowered it to show that we are passing a resolution or we're putting up a resolution to pass here tonight that we'll be voting on uh and Mr Jenkins can explain that a little bit more but that will allow the auditor to to state that a little more clearly on their website and if anyone has any questions about that uh we encourage you to reach out but we really wanted to clarify that because I know that that's been a question that people have had um again that Mill esate will be on the ballot but it is something that while we're legally authorized to collect we wouldn't uh we do not intend to collect uh to uh to satisfy those issues so uh again we'll talk about that a little
009bit more but uh uh beyond that does anybody have any committee updates I think we've had a number of committees that have met uh since last time so go ahead we had facilities committee um so they're moving along with um just discussing the new buildings and the progress of our newest Elementary that will open this fall um so that's still on track um and ready to anticipate that we will um have it before even the end of this school year um ready to go in and and start you know setting it all up for next fall um and then the anticipated buildings that we um anticipate to start once if um all this passes and um so yeah just just getting some updates of um the status of that um and you know some long-term
010um projections as well for things like the high school and um things that we think that that the committee thinks they will need yeah it's perfect anything else yeah this is right on track and then we had finance and audit finance and audit last night and um we reviewed um a summary not the long version of the of the uh annual Financial audit the the paer and the annual comprehensive financial report um I think this the thing that's most surprising is how much um there's checks and balances with this system of of of of public monies um there's a gentleman there who's been doing this committee um longer than most of us have probably lived in ol Tangi and he said that he has he can't even remember when we've ever had anything but the
011best audit reports um so it was a great it was a great meeting and it was also great because it was only 72 minutes long so um we were able to get out of there in a reasonable amount of time that was finance and audit last last night uh looking forward fiveyear forecast um at our next finance and audit meeting sounds good and I'll do the mental health committee because Dr Wallock and I were at the mental health committee last night um at we've talked about before that committee is just now starting as a full board uh committee it was an ad hoc committee for the first year uh we've now formalize that so it'll be uh a permanent part of our board operations that's a committee that has students parents staff administrators board members
012all working together to talk about pressing mental health issues the steps that we can take um improvements we already have a a very robust um uh student well-being department they do a lot of uh wonderful work but it's just how do we enhance how do we do even more in that space just because of the critical uh nature of that uh we welcomed three new students to that committee last or four new students that committee uh last night we Tred to have a student from every High School uh beyond that and unfortunately some of the students that we had initially graduated uh we tried to keep them here but they decided to graduate so we had to get new students uh to to jump on that and it's great to keep those student perspectives fresh
013um last night we talked a lot about um one of the mots uh that we had here in all angas flourish here but a question really becomes well what are the things that might enable you to flourish or what are the impediments what are the real world things that might um impact that one way or the other so we started to brainstorm and really think about some steps that we could take to ensure that students can actually achieve everything that they need to achieve so that you know faculty and and staff uh are able to to perform their very best so we we talked a lot about that we're going to think about some action steps that come out of that um but it's a great opportunity to really hear directly from the community on
014those issues so if you want to add anything to that and I know you have some other yeah uh you know Dr dbo you and I love our datadriven uh analyses and such so it was really cool to start talking about you know floor sheare sounds great but how do we can we make that quantifiable so that we can really consider uh where we're excelling or where we have room to improve um we also talked about ouros accreditation and also seeking national accreditation and how that really also holds us to a higher standard of accountability even uh greater reporting and and audits of the work that we do so um I think that's all great I think it's set it on on on the and we we also talked about the upcoming Wellness Workshop that's
015in the community that we're gonna have a presentation on that so I don't want to steal Dr brand it's Thunder but it's a a great event that I encourage everyone here to attend that's coming up on March 8th March 8th I think yes 9th 9th 9th 9th I think n9th so Saturday yeah Saturday whatever Saturday so yeah um and then lastly I'll just address um on Saturday February 10th I was able to attend the Ohio school boards Association Board of Trustees meeting which was lovely we get phen phenomenal uh legislative updates and it's a a nice uh you spent a better chunk of the day uh together in community with school board representation from across the state so that was lovely and then we were also able to welcome Sally green who is a 19-year
016school board member of tusky valley uh she joined us here in the district um on Valentine's Day on February 14th and a big shout out to the district leadership team um for all of the hard work in preparing A really lovely itinerary where we were able to take uh Mrs Green all around the district and showcase the great things we do we visited Arrowhead and uh we came to the building here we went to Oasis we were at Shanahan and ol and Tangi orange everyone was incredibly hospitable uh the students were amazing and I was incredibly proud uh to Showcase what we do here in ol Tangi and fun little fact that I love addressing is um so tusky Valley Tusc cross Valley uh school district is 95 square miles just as ol T is
01795 square miles um but Sally green District serves about a little over 1300 students compared to our almost 24,000 so so you know just kind of a little little fun fun fact there I think that is it that's good it is March 9th I verified it so yes good any updates for you good all right uh with that we will move uh straight into our agenda uh we have a presentation on social studies curriculum in grades six through nine so Mr chair B know Mr chid and uh Miss Gillespie all right good evening um I am Joe tabino Danielle Gillespie Fred Chik we're all from Liberty Middle we're the rep Representatives on the committee for that's been working since the be beginning of school we have Representatives working with the curriculum Department from all of
018the middle schools that come together to really work on this um framework there's a lot of historical misconceptions with what we do in social studies uh where it's a lot like memorization and and a lot of battles and dates and things um and that sort of content is part of it but it's it's much bigger than that uh and it really is about analysis and looking at cause and effect and and being a good citizen and this framework really helps that it's it's be it's a competency based framework I'm going to go to my framework slide um so there are the five elements the committee has come up with Civic engagement cultural awareness academic literacy inquiry and geography and space faal reasoning and being competency based as opposed to a lot of memorization of miscellaneous
019facts and things because we all carry miniature computers around with us so the memorization of facts is not as necessary um as possibly it might once appeared to be uh it really does allow it to be a set of skills that they can carry with them throughout their career in social studies starting in middle school and moving even into high school so uh history and government economics classes um it's an introduction to scholarship it's it's a introduction to analyzing sources and who wrote it or created it and when and why and what impact did that have and and what how do we see the past reflected in the present what can we learn um about ourselves and about our community and about Civilization by looking at the past and looking forward looking even forward so
020it's it's a it's much more skill-based than memorization I'm going to let Danielle talk about her her Parts um I'm super excited by the work that we are doing um here at central office with the the help of professional development with Dr bage and Mr s over there um I've been teaching in this district for 21 years and I've been at Liberty Middle School teaching 8th grade for all of those years 23 total and I love the work that we're doing there it is going to make the biggest impact on our students we are building that 21st century citizen Mr chairo um mentions you know they carry these many computers in them we are going away from that idea that you need to know all these facts and we are turning to the curriculum is
021the vehicle our content is our vehicle to teach them these skills and through that we are going to allow kids to make their own opinions but tell them teach them through making their own opinions they have to be able to support their opinions with facts and information um the pictures that you see up here are students from my e8th grade classroom you want to take those up there and I brought in the place cards that our students my students and Mr mills's students are are working with so that you can see this um what we had done for this inquiry based activity was we gave our students five um Place cards of political cartoons about the Monroe Doctrine um if you ever sat in a class where a student or a teacher just wants to
022go on and on and on about the Monroe Doctrine you lost them as soon as you said the word Doctrine um they're like okay whatever um what we did is we told them these are about the Monroe Doctrine we told them it was during James Monroe's presidency and what do you notice and we left the kids to do working collaboratively ah collaboratively together come up with what they could figure out um they came came up with list of things they noticed they annotated um these pictures and you can get a lot from these five pictures that I've given you here on what is happening um they came up with a basic idea and they have a place to put that information so when Mr Mills and I were um then going through that material we
023were able to fill in the blanks for the students they already had forms some ideas and then we filled it in with the actual historic content and the kids were engaged the entire time um um and you can see with the pictures that we have here we have small groups um working we had teacher-led groups with some groups and then we had our some of our SLC students that were able to come in to our classroom with the help of an aid to be able to take part in these classroom discussions too um it really does open up that curriculum to everybody and they're building so many more skills than just learning about the Monroe Doctrine SL there you go so meing is where it's at I think you saw some great pictures of Mr
024Mills and uh M Gillespie outstanding social studies teachers who occasionally will open a wall team teach together and we've all had that experience uh back in ' 85 to the early 90s a teacher was pretty much on their own and since we brought about the teaming process in through the 90s beginning with the middle school and now it's gone to all the uh all the buildings it gives you a chance chance to have the greatness of different teachers bring in their skills their their insight to help the students and then the students learn on that as well uh with partnering with small grouping as well so what we're doing is now bringing the team together across the district again with the great workshops as we're designing this new Competency Based uh framework and putting all
025the experience of all the teachers together for the benefit of the students with practical lessons that uh we've been implementing and will'll be able to revise and tweak feedback from one another and also uh going with the guideline of the new framework that is being created uh for conceivably the next 5 to 10 years for the social studies uh curriculum any questions look like you go for go ahead you already got it in your head I can tell I'm wondering um how much are you able to make it an inclusive classroom and I know it all depends on individual student goals and all that but is that is that on the radar to make sure that students are learning social studies together because everyone has something to offer that discussion um I have a wide
026variety of students that sit in my classroom I have the SLC students and I have the gifted clusters too so I mean I go from all ends and the goal with this really does allow us to differentiate with at every level um you're you still have often that same I want you to learn this but then it's really going to look at that competencies well this is where you should be and then it helps us move um each kid to where they need to be so you're starting here so I'm going to move you here and if you're starting here I need to move you here and it allows really for for us to as as a sixth seventh and eighth grade we're building that framework for it to spiral math often has the spiral
027so does language arts has a spiral curriculum to it whereas for the longest time social studies is kind of like okay just go memorize these things where there's really these skills we want to be developing within our students so that as they start in sixth grade and by the time they get to me in eighth grade they've built upon those in sixth seventh and eth grade so that I can okay this is where you should be with this how do I keep pushing you there and if some teachers are doing it and some teachers aren't your all your kids are coming in a different so we get on the same page with that with that spiral and what it should look at like in each grade level I really do think it's going to provide
028a wonderful way for us to continue to grow our students so your team teaching could also include intervention Specialists and and oh yes all yeah oh and the more people that come in and more people that the collaboration time that we get with these with our colleagues only makes us better perfect thank you it's really important to foster a love of learning in our kiddos and um I have this this is what I'm certified to teach by do you know that 49 language arts and social studies this is This Is My Jam um so than welcome to come teach with us you want to come G to come hang out um but it's so so refreshing I'm looking at this slide that has you know the pictures of these kids working together collaboratively engaged in
029their learning and I mean I don't know I think back to my middle school social studies experiences and I had phenomenal Educators but I have distinct memories of just rapid fire note taking and so the focus on the development of skills and this kind of learning environment I just I think about that love of learning and this brings our our history to life in a way that rapid fired note taking and rote memorization just cannot do cuz we we do have those computers in our back pockets so anyway I appreciate you for all that you're doing well and as a so I have an eighth grader this year and I was really struck at curriculum night when when I mean really by all the teachers but the social studies teacher was talking about the ways
030that you all do some of this stuff and it it struck me as um quite important when we sort of see how people engage today and how there's so much just screaming at each you misinformation that sort of stuff so you you are teaching them history right but you're also teaching them how to research and reason and argue persuasively and do it in a constructive way right and and that's how these these lessons really you know bring about those skills that they're going to need in the future so that we get away from some of the the negativity and just the you know the not viewing each other appropriately so that's great I love that you have it framed on this slide as the 21st century citizen right I mean that's that's where this field
031can really be so great as opposed to Preparing you to you know answer the question about when the Battle of Hastings was right which like great I've got that if Jeopardy comes up but like this is so much more valuable so I appreciate it truly I appreciate the fact that the district sees a need in this as a social studies educator I mean this is huge that that that people are spending time with us and want us to be able to build something like this because this is what kids need and that makes me really excited to work in this district and to be offered the professional development that we are given to do this for kids is is really impressive and I love it here in Oni we're in edotopia is what you have
032a unique perspective too with the longevity of your career in that role so you're you're the past the present and the future looking at um the evolution and Fred Fred how long Fred how long have you been here one on the list here with you too some say too long but I'm very proud to say 39 [Music] [Applause] years and and I my son is also in e8th grade this year and my daughter is in sixth grade both of them in my building and this is what I want them learning at school so I mean I really do see the value of what we're doing that's a greata I also just wanted to add that um I have a seventh grader at Shanahan and she did a big project through social studies um with Greek
033gods and those sorts of things and I thought that was a really good vehicle to teach her some of those skills that you like like you were saying they build year to year so she learned how to have a long-term project and take it step by step and it wasn't something that you can't just throw it together overnight you can't do the research and the building and you know deciding which Greek god you're going to choose and that sort of thing um so I thought that was a really great way to help kids with support of those executive function things that they will need to do more and more of independently and teach them to be independent Learners as well well so um Beyond you know I I'm totally on board with with the framework
034that you guys are um doing but then also just some of these projects and the way that kids are being taught other skills that they will need through all of their classes so I'm appreciative of that as well all right well thank you so much appr thank you thank [Applause] you all right uh our next uh I'm glad we're back to the Applause after yeah I'm a fan all right new in 2024 I know it's great positivity uh so the next presentation is Dr Branson who's going to uh give us uh the invitation with the correct date for the olsd Lis Workshop good evening thank you my name is Katie Branson I am the assistant director of student wellbeing here at ol and Tangi I am here this evening to extend an invitation to our
035district parents and our staff uh to our ol and Tangi Wellness Workshop which is Saturday March 9th um and that will be from 8:00 a.m to noon at olangi Orange High School the goal of the wellness Workshop is to help our district parents and staff learn ways that they can support our students everyday wellness and wellbe the Workshop will include a panel discussion featuring ol and Tangi school students uh the goal of that is to give some voice and student perspectives on topics of mental health wellness and ways that adults can support them there will also be a community partner Expo featuring local organizations to support parents and staff with information and resources uh this Expo will run throughout the entire Workshop from 800 to noon uh the workshop will also include presentations on a
036variety of topics related to Wellness and mental health um attendees will learn practical strategies through a an array of engaging learning opportunities we have many different organizations that will be joining us that day including Nationwide Children's Hospital Nami the Ohio State University and members of only Tangi teaching and administrative teams um let's see some of the session topics include demystifying and understanding anxiety digital Wellness um and helping our students in a digital world navigating achievement culture um exploring emotions through drawing and art and embracing hope and managing stress and modeling self-care um so I would encourage all of our parents our staff if you have not already to register for the event uh you can register through the ol Tangi website our mobile app or um let's see some of the links that have been
037provided in the district newsletter so any questions or well I just I say so this is one of the things that we had talked about in the the uh ad hoc version of the well-being committee and um you we try to provide a lot of resources during the day for students but parents don't always get those resources right so it's really important that we um as we're thinking about sort of a community perspective on this then we give everybody those opportunities to to uh to understand the needs to to have some strategies to cope um with some of those things and and really to get the perspective from the students directly um that's one of the things that we certainly heard um in in the the committee meetings is students feeling like they're not necessarily
038understood or that you know that that adults don't don't quite get where they are um this is a great way to to start to do this so we're looking forward to this and and certainly hoping it will be an annual event where we can you know do this every year yeah absolutely I mean this what I heard from the students last night um number one overcoming a fear of being in a room with adults and making themselves vulnerable and sharing their thoughts and experiences um but the the passion that I saw and heard of not only it it wasn't um it was not a selfish thing right it wasn't about my mental health you know my feel my experience but really seeing what their peers um are experiencing as well and wanting to be uh
039solutions to to the everyday Wellness needs um so I was excited just in our brief meeting last night um really looking forward to this Workshop to to see all that um all the good things going on and and the Hope just to be clear the Hope in the future is that we also have student tracks where we're able to offer additional things but we're piloting it out this year so yeah great thank you we hope to see you there so much than you all right Mr Meyer with the superintendent report all right good evening so we're going to jump right in uh Mr O'Brien thank you yeah uh students stakers so want to congratulate we have uh five students who um committed to play sports at the next level I'm so you can see three
040from Berlin um uh Rico Spencer and Mason uh Rico soccer at Bowling Green Spencer football at Toledo Mason football at Wheeling University um Orange High School 2 Kobe football at Ashlin and Marrin O'Brien thank you this is your third this will be your third graduate now right third yeah third graduate at uh cross country and track and field at um Ohio University so I I know that um obviously the student athletes are extremely excited but um parents uh and grandparents and family as well so congratulations to those students um also want to uh wish the best to we have many many state qualifiers in high school speech and debate which uh are headed to state competition March 1st and 2nd so all four schools will be represented um at the uh state competition with many
041many qualifiers so congratulations to our four high schools um students and stakeholders and this has been a a theme through our Bridge Ed program so want to highlight uh this activity this is the second annual OSU nurse surge teex station event um through our Bridge Ed program at Shanahan middle school with all sixth graders uh so the sixth graders the students rotated through bovie uh Coty station a CPR station a life skill station because again when you work life skills are are important when you work with a uh in whatever space and with individuals and a uh dissected organs uh station so and again all stations connect to their sixth grade science curriculum so a lot of times for sure when we bring in um guest speakers or these types of activities we do make
042connections to the curriculum one other thing I want to highlight um we have 12 students from our o Tangi Academy who will participate in an actual rotation with uh wexter Medical Center so there onsite studying clinical laboratories respiratory therapy and imaging so um that'll be a neat experience for those 12 students I'm glad you read that for us because I read that as Bine cautery orig I was wondering what we were doing with yeah what is so it's electrosurgery it's an electrosurgery device yeah yeah yeah electrosurgery concern yeah um also want to highlight February 15th was National school resource officers appreciation day and for sure we uh here in ow and Tangi appreciate the partnership and relationship that we have with the Delaware County Sheriff's Office and for sure our sro's because um they do
043very very well in our schools they're part of our school culture as far as uh working with our school communities uh student staff and parents um so for sure appreciate uh what they do each and every day and they valued members of the actual um staffs of the schools that they're assigned also want to note part of the operational ask um coming up with the levy would put uh safety personnel in all of our elementaries currently we have dedicated SRO in our high schools and middle schools So the plan moving forward if we're successful uh here in March would be to put um uh dedicated security Personnel in all of our elementaries as well phased in um learning an organizational development and uh extremely proud you heard a little bit from our three teachers that
044just presented on uh social uh the social studies curriculum so we held our uh third professional development day um of the Year February 16th um so basically we brought staff together at each level elementary middle school and high school and then uh because we have so many elementaries the Elementary staff uh went to four different elementary schools um all of our middle Middle School teachers went to Liberty Middle and our uh High School teachers went to Berlin High School um to really enhance teacher toolbx to facilitate maximum learning for every student and I I remember when I first got into education and I've been in 33 years ago but uh you know I heard this quote show me a school where adults are learning and I'll show you a school where uh students are learning
045and it's so true and at the macro level here in our district you show me a district where adults are learning and obviously District where um students are learning and it's so true and so profound um what we continue to do in this district is just simply amazing um with our teachers and with our uh central office administrators around that alignment piece and how intentional it is meeting the needs of all of our students and obviously providing the best learning experience that we can for all kids um so you know just extremely uh proud of the work that we continue to do as a district uh with our professional development all right so moving on as Mr Lester said uh we have a levy on the ballot um March 19th uh so I wanted to
046and again as we hear these questions across uh many Community conversations that we're having um uh really every night of the week um this question how did District leaders determine that now is the time for all Tangi schools to go on the March ballot so this question continues to come up like why now and for us uh the answer why now is enrollment management um as a district uh we continue to grow and we're projected to grow you can see there again 20% over the next um 10 years but I want to put some context around around that so in 1990 we were about 2,000 students uh in the district when I came in the district in 2007 just a little over 13,000 and today over 24,000 students the last 10 years um we grew
047by over uh 5,000 students so almost the trajectory is almost mirroring the next 10 years what we faced the last 10 years and again if you put it in context the last 10 years we built the equivalent to five buildings so we built um uh the uh High School Middle School um two elementaries and then the additions that we put on three elementaries and then renovating Shanahan Middle School 12 classrooms there for uh preschool which is equivalent to a third Elementary so um again kudos to our facilities committee for uh the work that they do each and every every year uh projecting our enrollment growth um so then we as a district can make plans um so I I I want to mention that because really that's the why enrollment and enrollment is going to
048continue to grow in order for us to accommodate enrollment uh we need facilities to uh put kids in and so Mr Mayer on that point I I think um a question that I've heard around this is also well okay yes enrollment is growing but why does it have to be this spring as opposed to this fall or or next spring or something like that um can you talk a little bit about if a if a measure is passed this spring what it allows us to do from a construction perspective to alleviate and how that ties into all this absolutely so and that's really uh uh great question because uh this spring is critical for us to pass to get started on the construction so that we can open uh Elementary 18 and 19 and 25
04926 because if we don't pass uh in the spring and then we decide uh with collaboration of the board if we go back on in November it pushes pushes us back a whole year uh constructionwise which again just exacerbates the problem in our schools of overcrowding and also will increase cost uh for construction because every year we wait uh the cost of construction there is an inflation rate that will go up right so you know an elementary school takes about a year to construct um when you're doing it so if if it passes now what it would you know allow us to do is start that construction then it opens up for the 25 26 school year and that would be actually two elementary schools to really alleviate some of that again if it doesn't
050pass then you know we're we're looking at exactly it would be a year out 26 27 if we were successful in the future correct um also uh just want to highlight and I know Mr Lester you talked about this this at the beginning but it's been uh really really um great for US District leadership team Mr Jenkin and I over the last five weeks um having many Community conversations making connections and being able to educate um our stakeholders uh on the uh Levy facts so since January 16 16 uh we've been invited to uh We've held 10 coffee chats um mostly in people's homes we've also participated uh in meetings with Community leaders and hosted Community conversations at 22 schools so upcoming we still have uh four more schools uh you can see Shanahan Middle
051School on February 26th then CER Ridge the next day ol and Tangi Meadows uh next week and then we'll we'll conclude our building Community conversations on uh March 4th there at Glen Oak uh Elementary we still have scheduled coffee chats in uh homes we're also uh continue to meet with Community groups uh right up till um March 19th and I wanted to highlight this because this will be uh brand new um we will uh host a community con a virtual community conversation so um this is again a culmination of all of our community conversations in our building but we're also uh going to provide the same uh conversation virtually to the community on Tuesday March 5th at 6:30 p.m. um we're going to share a participant link with our community to join uh going out
052tomorrow on the board recap right Krista yes yes tomorrow so we're starting tomorrow um we'll share that uh link so again another opportunity for uh community members uh stakeholders um who want to learn about um the upcoming Levy uh super superintendent action items tonight um certified staff action items uh classified staff action items uh approved seniors for graduation um we have a couple overnight and out of state trips uh one business management and Facilities item the recommendation to approve a lease agreement um with the Y club with the YMCA um and really that's cuz we're adding uh our 17th elementary PE blow Crossing next year and we do reference Elementary 18 and 19 uh for future so we have y Club in every one of our Elementary uh schools before and after school care um
053obviously again it's a it's another service that we provide for um parents who need those accommodations um for their students before and after school um and I will again recommend all of these items in uh one consent uh action items all right uh important dates coming up state of the schools that's coming real quick that's next week so next Wednesday uh state of the schools um 6:00 to 8 at ol Tangi high school so we invite uh anyone from the community um to attend our state of the schools uh it's going to be pretty cool in my opinion this year because we are going to Showcase uh student and and many of the talents that we have across the district with some of our student groups so um that's uh next Wednesday again the virtual
054community conversation Tuesday March 5th uh certified interview day which is uh Wednesday um March uh 6th uh on Tangi administrative offices uh into of the third quarter um fast approaching March 7th teacher workday March 8th and then again on Tangy Wellness Workshop Saturday March 9th and our next Board of Education meeting Thursday March 7th right here any questions right good thank you Mr R thank [Applause] you all right Mr Jenkins with the treasures report good evening board members uh I have a few items to go through this evening um they're all related to items on the agenda and then a couple of things uh are more about U knowing facts about the levy one of the things that you'll see this evening uh this is about the time of the year where we bring forward
055uh a slate of properties that we are interested in filing uh what's called a board of revision complaint uh the board of revisions uh consists of the county auditor the County Treasurer and the County prosecutor and it is a committee um that considers the complaint that any in en that owns property in Delaware County might file against the value of their property uh generally as you might uh suppose uh those would be complaints that would seek to decrease a value um we are uh basically looking at two types of complaints and the majority of this slide talks about one where folks interest might really uh perk up which is why would the olangi schools ever be the original complainant uh seeking to ask the auditor to look at the value of a property well we
056uh as a as a group made some legislation about a year or so ago and is policy 6225 and what that policy does is it sets out why we would get into the business of ultimately looking at a piece of property and saying we think that the value uh might be too low specifically uh we want to protect our real tax base which we know is the most significant source of our funding uh as we're going around having these Community conversations right now one of the numbers that we show is that right now 72% of our income comes from local real estate property tax bases uh we want to believe it or not protect the interest of all constituents and that's the one that may not seem uh you know naturally logical but where a
057reduction in value for for my neighbor is unwarranted that serves to potentially increase my taxes uh if you think about uh the best analogy is the real property tax base is a piece of great big pie and if I cut my piece differently your piece naturally is going to change size so ultimately we know that if every reduction in value uh were to be granted that could substantially impact not only uh the district but also um individual homeowners and again uh we noticed that reductions in value that aren't warranted can actually increase tax rates uh for other people so when do we do this and this is important for us to point out we only do it for commercial industrial or other income or investment producing type properties we do not uh in any way
058shape or form decide that we're going to uh file an original complaint against the average residential homeowner that's not what we're in the business of doing the reason we do that uh we certainly have heard and we have some FAQs uh right now about the uh Levy where people ask questions about for lack of a better word do businesses do uh industrial um types of properties do developers pay their fair share so we are always d ENT about making sure that where commercial industrial or other incom producing or investment properties appear to have sold uh in a recent arms link transaction sale for at least $250,000 and they're undervalued such that there would be at least $2,500 of tax revenue at stake we would file an original no complaint again I'll kind of try to
059spell that out in layman's terms imagine uh running across a property that sold last year for $1.2 million and yet when we look on the Auditor's website uh the property is currently appraised at $400,000 there's a recent arms link transaction sale for that business that seems to indicate that the true value of that property is $1.2 million not $600,000 so those are the kinds of things that we do because the commercial tax base most especially helps to protect uh our residential homeowners you know we've heard a lot about making sure that our commercial tax base um is preserved and grown so that the burden of a burgeoning school district doesn't continually just fall on the residential homeowner there is one other type of complaint that we file but that is is strictly a counter complaint
060we only file counter complaints and what counter means is is someone else complained first they brought forth a Bo complaint those uh we will counter when the revenue at stake is $1,000 or more or on its face the complaint would be jurisdictionally def jurisdictionally defective uh something about the complaint for example uh you have to be a property owner uh in Delaware County to file a Bo in Delaware County we sometimes get folks uh who live in other counties that will file a Bo so again the whole process is designed actually to protect uh a a vital source of our our tax revenue but to do so in such a way uh that we're holding accountable so to speak um businesses commercial uh incom producing properties and certainly not picking on or going after residential
061homeowners so questions about those BS because one of the items in tonight's agenda is to approve this year slate of original complaints just ballpark do we see many of these it's funny you asked that so leaning the witness we have a um summary that we put together to kind of put into perspective what what happens um each year and you will see an uptick in BO complaints in usually your trial reappraisal uh or in your um reappraisal years but if you take a look at what we've done since 2019 on the top of the chart these would be where we believe we had evidence to substantiate a recent arms link transaction sale and yet the property was not valued uh at that level it was much less so the way to read that for example
062the most recently completed tax year we filed 35 original complaints and 35 so far have been decided now there could have been uh in any given year you may see those numbers not in sync because these can take some time these BS of those 35 that were decided there was a gross addition of assessed value of $11.25 million so the appraised value that was added was 3574 Million million that was new tax revenue of $63,900 230 to the next reappraisal based on the five inside Mills uh that are part of all of those scenarios so what what again that means is is the $3.5 million of market value represented about $3.5 million of undervaluation where we had um evidence to substantiate that a business or businesses would have been undervalued by that amount on the
063bottom half you will see where we countered to protect value I suppose it would be possible it's just not at all probable that anyone would ever file a complaint to increase their valuation so all of these counters are where we are saying hey we think the auditor's value is correct and so we counter that complaint so the way to view that is if we Prevail or if we reach some sort of negotiated agreement on what the value should be we're protecting value so you can see that we have uh protected value uh in recent years as high as 17.2 million in 2019 about 7.6 Million last year the tax dollar saved is the way to look at that analysis so we used to also be able to settle uh with what's called a direct payment
064and all a direct payment means is is the owner of the property says hey let's just settle this let's just get this over with um what what would that look like but House Bill 126 which was uh passed in 2022 uh has said that those are no longer uh serving the Public's interest and so those have been done away with um they so the end resolution of a Bo now is deciding the true value of a property uh for the entire uh benefit of of public good so the very bottom row would show uh what this process has done in total tax benefits through both protecting value and finding BS where an individual property is undervalued based on a recent arms link transaction sale questions how do you account for the in the forecast or
065or maybe you can't um it would be uh you know an other a a a fudge in miscellaneous revenue of you know a tenth of a percent it's it's not it's not easy to account for in the forecast and despite the numbers that you see there in any one year it is not uh a substantial uh portion of the overall 3 $50 million general fund budget anyway now we could I suppose one day have one that would be that substantial um but in fact I think one of the ones that's on tonight is almost $40 million worth of value uh we have a group of Condominiums and I there was a recent sale it was nearly $82 million and yet when we look at the value of all the Condominiums put together it's only about
06640 million so that one I might have to study uh but most of these you know 1.4 million 3 million in any given tax year is not going to uh move the needle so to speak in aggregate over time we're doing our due diligence to protect our residential taxpayers from unintended or unwanted consequences when businesses or other entities um maybe seek to lower their taxable value uh or um their taxable value should be higher because of a sale and it just hasn't been updated and when you say Protect you're talking about if you weren't doing this that would the M that money up there would then be distributed amongst us if we weren't doing this then ostensibly uh levies would be higher because um we are not uh protecting or keeping the tax base where
067it needs to be based on Market uh data um and where businesses and I'm not trying to pick on businesses whatsoever because we have good relationships with our businesses and and they pay their fair share uh but ultimately this is just us making sure um that all taxpayers ultimately are accountable so if commercial taxpayers aren't paying what they should based on the fact that their values are undervalued that in one way or another is going to be passed on to residential homeowners so I just want to underscore that point because obviously we want to have good relationships with everyone in the community but we have a responsibility to that whole Community to make sure that we're doing it fairly we're not just letting people off the hook we're not just turning our eyes away from
068this when this bill passed a few years ago I think the idea was probably that it would make it more honorous more difficult for school districts to do this sort of thing and yet we're continuing to do it because we have this obligation to the community to make sure that we're keeping costs as low as we can I mean I this is a question that we've heard a lot um as the levy Kain has gone on is what are you doing to make sure that you're you know you're you're keeping cost low for the community what steps are you taking and and we have a slide in the the uh Community conversations that's available online that talks about all the cost-saving measures we have and this to me is just yet yet another example of
069that yes that that's the ultimate goal and again I'll reiterate we do not file original complaints on individual residential homeowners um that's just simply not what we're ever going to do um these would represent against scenarios 99% of the time of where the value of a piece of residential property owned by a business or a commercial entity um is not reflective of probative um and other compelling evidence to show that the value should be higher so uh know the facts U Mr Lester talked earlier about the auditor's web page and the fact that it's showing 2.72 Ms one of tonight's items um is a resolution that uh the board of education has asked uh to to pass that will essentially say hey we mean business when we say no additional Mills we've we've done this
070multiple times we're confident that we're going to be able to do at this time and we've had conversations with our County auditor that ultimately they they will disclaim this particular website once this resolution is passed the disclaimer will say the ol and Tangi Board of Education um has you know essentially stated that this will be a no additional millage uh bond issue make no mistake when you go to the ballot the ballot language is is uh you know very prescriptive and it's required by law you would still see the 2.72 Ms there which again might cause someone to say I don't know have have you ever done this before ol and Tangi and so the answer is yes so that 2.72 Ms on the ballot issue will look like uh you know $952 additional when
071we as a district are saying $148.7 so again we have analyzed our debt service fund we've looked at our amortization schedule we've looked at forecasted valuation increases and we know that we're not going to need uh any of that 2.72 Ms so the question is is well when has this happened before show us recent history so what we did was we went back and constructed a graph um I'm a math teacher I love graphs that shows the history of our bond millage I'm going to start in 2008 because that's the last time there was an increase and I'm going to be able to explain why so in 2008 we would have passed a bond issue if you looked at the ballot it was for 1.8 Ms so the same thing we're talking about today the
0722.72 the auditor uh you know crunched the numbers and came back with you're going to need 1.8 Ms well we only collected 82 of that bond issue so that substantiates that you don't have to collect what the ballot issue ultimately says could be there but then if you look at the history since then I've taken little arrows and drawn 2011 if you looked at the ballot language it would have been a half a mill bond issue we did not collect any additional Mills and notice that that line stays flat which means that in subsequent years we didn't increase it when you get to 2016 we passed another bond issue that was on the ballot for 1.3 MS I think that was like what we we didn't collect any additional Mills in fact the rate dropped
073to 8.64 we then in 2017 just by the natural progression of valuation increases the bond millage rate dropped to 7 and a half in 2020 we would have passed the bond issue that built uh Berlin middle Peach blow Crossing and shell Meadows that was a 1.7 mil bond issue as it appeared on the ballot once again we did not and have not collected any additional Mills the final thing we did we just did this this past fall we proactively reduced the bond millage to 6.25 Mills and we will not have to increase it with this no additional Mill bond issue so since 2011 11 Bond rates have done nothing but decrease questions about the strategy uh and we're trying to again make sure our community knows we have pledged and we have said no additional
074Mills we have a track record of being able to fulfill that and we expect nothing to change moving forward Mr jins in in the past where the district has going back even further you know where the district has increased the mills for Debt Service what has the B what has it you know represented to the community around that I'm going to go back to 2001 um just because I think going back even further than that I mean who would remember anyway I mean some might that's almost it's a whole generation of of school students if not almost two so in 2001 we were able to do a no additional Mill bond issue all the way back in 2001 obviously we were growing back then as well so in 2002 we had another bond issue that
075bond issue would have been on the ballot for one full additional Mill and we did need that and so that's what we collected so that was the promise made and that was a promise that was delivered on that's correct when we got to 2004 we had another bond issue we were again able to do it for no additional Mills in 20 2005 we had another bond issue what was on the ballot was 2.13 Ms we only collected one additional Mill so we weren't able to do no additional Mills but that substantiates that the rate that you see on the ballot is a not to exceed or maximum Authority it does not mean you have to collect it so of that 2.13 we only collected one additional Mill for that bond issue then in 2008 what
076the public would have seen on the ballot issue was 1.8 Ms and we've already described that on this graph and we only collected .82 more Mills again the authority was 1.8 but we're only going to increase rates as much as we need to pay debt service no more that's why when you get to then 2011 2016 202 20 and now here in 2024 uh we are able assuming it passes to have no additional Mills the 6.25 Mills will spend off more than enough Revenue to pay our debt service moving forward into the future Mr Meyer how many buildings have we built since 01 on these Bond issues uh so it's 01 um Liberty opened in 01 right let me tally let me tally Liberty opened in 03 03 from the 01 bond issue uh probably
077would have been the1 that would have been for Liberty High School yeah I mean you probably could 15 well we certainly let's go backwards yeah burlin middle Berlin High shell Meadows Peach blow cross Crossing Freedom Trail heritage heritage Berkshire Berkshire Berkshire Orange High School Orange High School 08 was Orange High School Liberty Johnny Johnny Cake Springs we're approaching half of our buildings being built since 2000 patts Liberty Tree yeah yeah yeah yeah so I guess I'm trying to make sure I understand this correctly cuz I haven't lived here since 01 basically a quarter Century um at least three Treasures maybe more that I don't know about uh four plus superintendant oodles aboard folks and every single time they've kept their word correct say 14 buildings I 13 or 14 other question and I just want
078to be clear on the 2008 was that present head to the community as it will increase uh all I know without obviously being able to go back and dig through all of the archives um clearly I found the On The Board of Elections website U where I did go into some archives that it was a uh 1.8 mil ballot issue but when it was all said and done we only collected 082 did did we to me what we would always tell the community is even if we knew it it couldn't be no additional Mills we're going to do our due diligence and we're going to know what we need to collect and that just kind of spells out that the factors that the auditor has to look at to determine what the Mills are four
079of the five are are relatively a total guess I shouldn't just say total they're educated guesses but they could be wrong for example interest rate um that's hard to guess it's hard to estimate the uh valuation that the auditor uses uh is set for 30 years years well that assumption all by itself is not realistic our value for the next 30 Years is not going to stay right where it is as of today there's a maximum maturity that you calculate according to statute but that does not mean you have to issue the bonds again it's the same type of concept of uh you you go to a bank and you get a a letter that says you're uh approved for up to $600,000 for a mortgage that does not mean you're forced to go find
080a $600,000 home if you find a great home for 450 Grand great it's it's the same kind of concept what the auditor is calculating is all of these not to exceed limits but we will not take more than what we need and obviously 2008 was that real estate crash right and home prices plummeted yes so that is something unique to that year that has not been present any of these other years yeah I don't know if I can't speak to if the concept at that time and that's a great Point M rber was hey we're going to be able to do this and then the the home crash uh caused that to change uh regardless what I what I do know factually is it was 1.8 um and we collected almost a full Mill less
081so again I mean as we look at this history and as we look at you know where we've been especially over the past year it's not only taking that into account but it's building into the forecast to understand you know what our ability to do all of this is and to say you we have this record of doing it we know where these Trends are going and you know we've shown that we can do that and that that's our promise to the community that's correct yeah yeah as I thought through I could think of no better way to show than to just simply say let's go back 20 years and take a look at our track record um and our track record has been uh we we've Del delivered every every time yes so the
082final thing and it was an article last week um it's on wbns and it was an article that you had to read very carefully because the article if you just glanced through made it sound like that schools across the state of Ohio have gotten a significant windfall from the legalization of sports games Ling Andor lottery or other games of chance what the article described was ultimately though if you if you read carefully that the state of Ohio has always used its general fund to uh principally fund the state funding formula in the last few years they have been able to substitute or plug in uh revenues from Lottery and Gain gaming and now uh Sports gaming the end of the day if you take a look and it's a massive four no over 6,000 page
083bill but if you look at House Bill 33 which is the uh 2425 bani budget you can actually see the appropriation items and overall public school funding to the high Department of Education which they pass on to schools is somewhere around 16 billion uh of that formula funding is a specific line and about about 80 to 85% of the line is general fund is it true that the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce gets money from Lottery and gaming to plug into that formula funding it absolutely is true but the article if you read it quickly made it sound like that about 30 uh $6.9 million was an instant windfall that the district got this year Well upon closer inspection that number is this year's formula funding number they showed Columbus Public getting I don't
084know 170 some odd million it was Columbus Public's formula funding number they showed Dublin they showed Westerville they showed several school districts around the Columbus Metro area and in all cases really the article to me was saying was um gaming and Lottery helps to provide um part of the formula funding that goes to schools it was not an add it was not an increase it was not an addition to what we're getting in Formula funding now we've talked already um as I've stood at this very uh de not Podium uh for the past as we've said uh over the past 6 months we are very fortunate and we're very pleased that the state funding formula uh has provided ol and Tangi schools with substantial increases during this banian budget but we've also said very clearly
085in our community conversations as a direct result this Levi ask operationally is three Ms not like it was in 2020 which was 7.4 Ms not like it was in 2016 when it was 5.9 Ms and not like it was in 2011 when it was 7.9 Ms so again it's important to say the lowest ask in what did we decide 30 years 30 years operational ask yep lowest operational ask correct yeah so we absolutely know um that our state funding has increased and we're very appreciative and we say in our community conversations every dollar we get from s the state of Ohio is one less dollar that we ostensibly have to ask for in a levy and that is reflected in how low this ask is compared to certainly our last three which all in including
086permanent Improvement would have been 79 6979 and this is 425 so to be fair though we're still only at 2third fund funded only two-thirds of what Fair school funding plan calls for correct through the next year correct and we can we can argue about what we would do if we were a mill short but it would be a different conversation we're having right now if it was fully funded correct if the formula was fully funded right now um I can't go on the record to say that I know for a fact it would completely eliminate the need because our permanent Improvement sure is uh drastically needed when we have 27 facilities and you know should this bond issue pass we'll have 32 but it would take an even more substantial bite out of the operational
087ask if the formula was fully funded and we have told our community multiple times we will continue to work with our state legislators to make sure that the formula is funded uh as originally intended so going back to your gambling Lottery um in reality there's really more research that suggests the state legislators actually cut their contributions to education almost along the same lines of the money they've received from the lottery magically so when they get X there's a corresponding drop now I understand over time that is increased but that drop that increase can also be I I don't think it's one to one but there's more research that shows that those funds in my saying it right are fungible which means yes we're getting money from this but unlike the promises made in the early
0881970s that said uh the income tax in Ohio would solve school funding or Lottery would solve school funding not sure if that has happened I would only say it this way at no point in time has all of the proceeds from gaming Lottery uh or other legalized state gambling simply been used to completely augment increase or add to Educational Funding I don't know the exact formula of how it has in in technical terms I I hate to use this word because it sounds awful from a Treasurer um we hate when people use the word supplant how much has Lottery funds supplanted what would have otherwise come from the general fund I don't know I I and I I can't even gather uh what that might be what I can say with full confidence it's not
089as if let's say the budget in one year was $2 and now all of a sudden Lottery funding gives you three more we didn't just all of a sudden jump up to five has never happened okay so then the items uh for tonight um as a part of the consent agenda minutes from February 6th uh the noted donations uh on the screen from Liberty High School uh boosters the ol and Tangi High School boosters and then another one from the Liberty boosters uh updated Appropriations for fiscal year 2024 uh approval of the January 2024 financial report uh the resolution we spoke of earlier um that is us uh vowing and and stating that we will do no new Mills for the bond portion the alternative tax budget for fiscal year 2025 wasn't a whole lot
090said about that document but if you kind of want to see the beginnings of our Appropriations for fiscal 25 across all funds um see what uh projection into the next fiscal year looks like we actually start that now and those will be recommended for approval by one uh consent vote uh unless something needs to be pulled out and discussed further and then finally um the board of revision resolutions must be considered uh as their own item uh all of the resolutions can be one but Bo has to be its own Standalone item and if there's no other questions I'll go ahead and take my seat thank you Mr jenin hey Dr dbo the team did some research so six schools in the90s one opened in 2002 and 2001 say that one more time uh six
091in the 9s one opened in 2002 and 2001 so 18 since 2001 18 since 18 there you go all right public participation I would didn't clap for him oh no don't no one can supplant you oh fancy and said deis the podium is what you stand on the de is what thank you um so tonight we have Eli Erlanger who wants to speak about books and censorship thank you Mr orlander um I'd just like to start off by saying that I'm truly grateful to be able to present to a public forum it's been the goal since I started writing this speech and I'm actually doing this because I was tasked with giving a speech somewhere in my school about something I'm passionate about but I wanted to actually bring it life where stuff actually happens
092so I'm here tonight so now I'm going to begin and thank you so I'm here to discuss the effects of book Bannings and urge the need for reading materials to be available for our youth in my freshman year of high school I read the catcher in their ey this was not only a book to me but a map to navigating life as an adolesent the book taught me wayte and gave me new ideas of how to operate in a confusing World although the world it is said in is vastly different all the lessons I learned were applicable to My Life as a teen in the 21st century before this I never knew that words on a page could make me feel comfortable it greatly helped with my sense of belonging and a transitional period in
093my life sadly this book has many attempts to be baned The Catcher in the Ry between the years of 1986 to 2000 was attempted to be banned nine separate times of those nine three were successful those bands took place in Wyoming North Dakota and California in my life one of the most influential and important pieces of literature I read was the Diary of a young girl by an Frank it details the horrors of living through the Holocaust from the point of view of a Jewish person in hiding during the Holocaust the Nazis banned books they had hold public book burning uh they would hold public book burnings with Mounds piling multiple feet high I'm Jewish and throughout this reading I struggled I to take breaks at points and it was stomach turning to read through
094yet it is one of the most important things I've ever read besides going to Temple it was the most in touch I've ever felt with my Jewish Heritage it caused me to feel compelled to do extra research it hurt it was scary and it was eye opening but most importantly it was necessary a quote that still stands with with me to this day is I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that Still Remains the most important things in life aren't easy but they are necessary sometimes things need to be heavy we don't live in a perfect world in Ohio in 2022 there are the ninth most attempts to ban books in the country previously book Banning usually pertained to one specific book per challenge in 2022 however 90% of banning attempts
095targeted multiple books of 1,269 attempts Nationwide to ban 2571 individual books for 40% attempted to ban 100 or more books at once between July 20 between July 1st 2021 through March 31st um 2022 1,586 books were banned in 86 School Districts across 26 States this affected more than 2 million children I want to share a story with you all it's a story of an attempt to ban books which failed it began in Strongsville Ohio in 1976 local school board members voted to ban Catch 22 by Joseph heler and other works by of Kurt vonet they planed to remove the books both from the curriculum as well as the school libraries they claimed um five students sued uh the school board through their parents they claimed this violated their first amendment rights the case went to
096the sixth Circuit of the federal appeals court the Court ruled that the school uh that the school operated within their bounds in regards to determining what books could be used in the classroom in terms of the removal of library books however the court stated here we are concerned with the right of the students to receive information which they and their teachers desire them to have the Court ruled in favors of this in the students in this case overall the Banning and censorships uh in a school library was deemed in violation of the student's First Amendment rights as a student myself I urge you to act and help protect our freedoms as students and as future members of society thank you thank you so uh whenever we have we we always enjoy having public participation we
097don't get as much as we used to uh back when I was running for Schoolboard we had a whole lot of people coming uh but uh we always enjoy having public participation but we especially enjoy it when we have students um come to share their views uh I want to thank you uh for a very thoughtful and eloquent speech um as a English major myself I I believe very strongly that books have power and uh they're important uh I know the district is is very committed to that but I I especially just want to thank you for how thoughtfully and articulately and persuasively you presented your position so thank you thank you I I I took a quote I I I I you said something that really spoke to me and so I I I
098tracked it and nice eye contact too you so very Adept speech Giver thank you it feels like American Idol where we're you are going to Hollywood so I'm going to tell you the best thing for someone who's older like me who hearing is is quickly fleeting um thank you for being loud even with the microphone sometimes I can't hear folks so thank you for being loud and I'm going to tell you the best way to do public speaking is to to talk about something that's important to you and it's passionate and I could see that in in in your talking to us um so thank you for being here it's hard to talk in front of people believe me so thank you for being here you are very much appreciated thank you thank you all
099thank you good job all right uh thank you for waiting yeah all right uh Mr Jenkins you have a tough act to follow do you want to present your consent items yes uh board members for your approval this evening um as one motion second and vote unless any of these items are desired to be pulled out separately would be item a which is the approval of the February 6th 2024 uh Board of Education meeting minutes Item B the recommendation of the approval of the acceptance of the noted donations item C recommended approval of the fiscal year 2024 uh updated Appropriations item D recommend approval of the January 2020 24 uh monthly treasurers financial report item e uh recommended approval of a resolution setting the millage limit of no additional Mills for the January January March
10019th 2024 U ballot issue and item F the alternative tax budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 2024 those items are recommended for approval by one single motion uh unless they would like to be uh any board M like to pull them out discuss separately would anybody like to pull any of these out no okay can I have a motion so moved second all right any discussion all right Mr Jenkins Dr wallik yes Mr O'Brien yes Miss shriber yes Mr Lester yes Dr Dabo yes okay and then treasure separate action item yes you'll see um as not noted in the treasurer's report um the list of resolutions uh and the noted properties that I am asking this board to approve uh to file the noted Board of revision complaints um unless there are questions
101or other comments okay can I have a motion to approve so moved a second I'll second any discussion all right Mr Jenkins Mr O'Brien yes Miss shriber yes Mr Lester yes Dr dabco yes Dr Wall yes all right Mr Meyer okay thank you uh board members I recommend approval of the following superintendent consent action items specific human resource items certified staff specific human resource items classified staff approvals of seniors for graduation pending certification of completion of all district state and local requirements approval of student overnight outof Town field trips and approval of business management and Facilities items I'm asking you to approve items a through e by one single action and vote unless you'd like to discuss any of these items separately anybody want to discuss them separately NOP all right can I have a
102motion I'll move a second second Mr Jenkins all right a discussion all right Mr Jenkins one of the items was incorrectly marked had to change it real quick so that was Miss rber and Dr Dabo correct correct Miss shriber yes Mr Lester yes Dr dbco yes Dr Wallock yes Mr O'Brien yes okay uh I neglected to mention out that we have an executive session tonight uh we are uh going to Executive session as permitted by section 121 uh 22 G1 of the Ohio revised code to consider the employment of a Public Employee uh can I have a motion so moved a second I'll second uh any discussion on this Mr Lester will be will be will we be returning to take any action we will not be returning to to a j thank you for
103that tough uh all right uh Mr Jenkins Mr Lester yes Dr Dabo yes Dr wallik yes Mr O'Brien yes M shriber yes all right thank you you forgetting about me seure e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e for e okay uh it is 903 p.m. I'll call the meeting back to order uh can I have a motion to adjourn so moved second any discussion oh all right Mr Jenkins Mr Jen be ready take your time you came back in early yeah I thought you came in early to get ready oh please Mr Lester yes Dr dbo yes Dr Wallock yes Mr O'Brien yes M rber
104yes thank you everyone