Olentangy Schools Board of Education, June 10, 2021

001i'm going to go ahead and get started uh lakeisha wise is coming from another meetings um so i'm going to go ahead and get started thanks everybody for coming we're back back it's normal um tonight we are here um the next meeting on the 24th and july 8th where's krista we are um at old tangy oh berlin because we've got award presentations 24th is here 24th is here oh okay 24th this year and then the 8th i should have read the email but i've got my stuff up here so it's here and the 8th is at berlin for awards all right okay so uh mrs hatfield called the meeting to order and call the roll mr king here mrs patrick here mr o'brien here mrs wagner feasel here and dr weiss is running late yup

002thank you please stand to say the pledge of allegiance i pledge of the united allegiance of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all all right on tonight's agenda before we approve it i just want to go over the presentations for food service our building projects and our strategic plan and then we have one two discussion items before we get into voting so there will be an executive session at the end of this meeting but we will not be taking any action after the executive session so we'll just adjourn and go into executive session continue with our executive session and then come back and adjourn the full meeting okay so now that i've gone over that i need approval on agenda as presented

003we have a second i'll second mindy any further discussion call the roll please mr o'brien yes mrs patrick yes mr king yes and mrs wagner feasel yes thank you okay our first presentation tonight is bethany lenko and she is going to give us a food service update yes i am presentations yes so thank you for having me here this evening um in the spirit of tradition i did bring some treats for everyone so we'll pass them around when i'm done and you can just help yourself they are smart snack approved cookies which means they meet the federal regulations for a la carte we have a candy cookie and then a double chocolate chip so their whole grain under 200 calories meets smart snacks why did you look at me when you said 200 calories i

004didn't mean to but yes thank you for having me here this evening i am just here just to um provide an update on the food service department um from last school year and into um talking about next school year um so i first want to start my presentation by thanking our food service staff for all the hard work they put in this past school year it was because of them we were able to feed all the students of olin tangi it didn't matter if the students were learning in school if they were learning at home on their remote days or if they participated in the cdl program all students in olintangi were had the opportunity to get two meals a day provided by these hard working individuals in addition to the the normal meal service

005they were able to offer weekend meals we offered a thanksgiving break meal kit a winter break meal kit and a spring break meal kit so they handed these meals out when it was raining snowing when it was cold when it was sunny so they just really stepped up to the plate i want to make sure that they get the recognition that they deserve because it was a true labor of love each and every day so i just want to thank them immensely sometimes i get a little emotional thinking about everything they did this year but i'm just so proud of them so after that now we'll get into a little bit more of the nitty gritty stuff so um just as an overview the food service department we are on a national school lunch program

006and school breakfast sponsor which means we are overseen by the united states department of agriculture and the ohio department of education office of integrated student supports we operate as a non-profit department any profit that we would make is meant to be reinvested back into the program be it on equipment or food quality so we are meant to operate as non-profit we have 24 on-site kitchens with 24 managers and about 123 food service workers and then we also have one maintenance position two administrative assistants um two assistant supervisors and then myself as the supervisor how we operate on a typical school year is students are charged a lunch price based upon their meal eligibility status so they can either be three either free reduced or paid so the student is charged that price and then in

007turn the federal government reimburses the food service department for that lunch that is served so the chart you have here is just for lunch it's broken out by school level elementary middle school and high school as you can see the paid lunch price um for example at elementary is two dollars and fifty cents that's something that's approved by the board anytime we need to raise lunch prices for that meal the federal government in turn gives us 40 cents for that meal so that total meal revenue we get is 2.90 for a paid student as you can see from the chart a reduced and free student we get 3.58 for that same meal so a free and reduced student we actually receive more revenue from that same meal that a paid student also took same is

008true at middle school and also high school then this next slide shows breakfast so breakfast is done the same way in which the eligibility status of the student is based upon what they're charged for that breakfast meal that they select across the district our breakfast price is 1.50 we receive 32 cents from the federal government for that breakfast meal for a total total of a dollar 82. a free and reduced student reimbursement we get a dollar 89. so again we receive more revenue from a free and reduced student than we do a paid student student so that's how we typically operate this past school year we operated under the seamless summer option program which means every meal served to a student is claimed under the federal free reimbursement rate it does not take into account

009a student's eligibility status so because of that um every breakfast that we served was claimed as a free meal and we received a dollar 89 for that breakfast lunch we received the 3.58 cents for each lunch that was selected by a student so then i want to go into a more detailed explanation of the hybrid attendance model versus our all-in daily attendance model so obviously we are under the hybrid attendance model from august to march and the first half shows our revenue and the second bottom half of the slide shows the expenses so under the hybrid attendance model we served roughly over 11 000 meals per day our per day revenue was about 34 000 whereas our expenses were running us about three thousand dollars a day um the reasoning being is on a given

010day under the hybrid attendance model we only had access to fifty percent of the kids on a school day because the other fifty percent were learning from home and even though we were offering meals to all students it didn't make up that difference in what we would normally serve students if they were in the building five days a week and then this slide shows you the daily attendance um model in which we move to in march um and this is for march and april um because we haven't closed the books on may yet but this gives you a good representation of our revenue versus expenses under the daily attendance model so daily attendance we were serving almost 19 000 meals a day and our per day revenue was over fifty eight thousand dollars our expenses

011were at fifty six thousand um so obviously we were able to turn a little bit of a profit once we switched over to the daily attendance model and this next slide is a summary of hybrid versus daily attendance hybrid again we were doing about 11 000 a little over 11 000 meals daily attendance almost 19 000 meals a day um hybrid attendance we were losing over 18 000 a day whereas in daily attendance we were able to make a profit about fifteen hundred dollars a day but keep in mind we are nonprofits so even if we were able to turn a profit um from the daily attendance that would be reinvested back into the program to buy new equipment to maintain equipment things like that planning for next school year so some of you may

012be aware usda did issue waivers back on april 20th where they are extending free meals for next school year these are nationwide waivers to increase funding support access and balance operational needs with the goal of providing nutritious meals to the kids the benefits for offering meals at no charge to our students is we receive more revenue as a food service department for each meal that we serve our employees get to stay employed in the food service department we help keep farmers truck drivers food manufacturers packing plant employees we help keep them employed more of the olympia families get to keep more of their money in their pocket and most importantly students receive a healthy and balanced meal to help them stay focused and learn during the school day so here's just we wanted to kind

013of estimate what next year might look like this is based upon our current rate that we're getting so the 3.58 cents and the dollar 89 for breakfast and lunch we expect the rate to go higher next year we don't have that figure yet we're waiting on usda to offer some more guidance and information as to what near next year will look like but unfortunately that was supposed to come out in may and it hasn't come out yet so we're still waiting but we expect that rate to be higher but still using the current rate that we have um you can see our revenue um would be about 58 000 per day and our expenses would be just under 58 000 a day um and of those expenses i did want to point out that over

01433 000 of those are fixed expenses so our labor cost utilities maintaining the equipment those expenses are going to happen regardless if um when kids are not in school so if we have non-revenue days those are just fixed expenses like our calamity days for snow days those are expenses that we would have to pay but not bringing any revenue on those days i have a question on any of these yeah you could leave it there do you are any of these figured in what you're selling a la carte yes so see the under revenue um it has that a la carte equivalence that how we come up with a la carte equivalence is we take the dollar amount of a la carte sold and divide it by the paid lunch price to figure out how

015many meals that would equate to so for instance at elementary um the meal price is two dollars and fifty cents so all the all a cart that's received for that day we divide it by two dollars and fifty cents and that's how we equate it to then a la carte equivalents so it is it is figured in that and that total meal count but you're telling us that every student in olympia is going to get a free breakfast or lunch and or yeah and or yeah and we will come out ahead we're estimating it yes that we could if the students participate we have to take into account if we have calamity days that can negatively affect our revenue as a whole well no i want to make sure that so the 2020 the 2122

016estimates are based on a more normal environment right we've got a mix of paid and free right right so so the the slight margin no this is all this is all this is based on all free school years they're offering the same all free program for families for the district they will fund the meals if we are in full attendance we should be close to a break even result by the end of the school year yeah that's why i'm asking the question the kids will still pay for a la carte right or if they don't if they don't actually have to get the meal which means the entree and right so students in order for it to be reimbursable what they select has to be has to meet the qualification that usda establishes which we've

017been they've been doing for years so it's not a new pro it's not a new meal pattern but if they just select that high school for instance if they just select a slice of pizza with um chips and a beverage that does not count that is all charged for that that's a la carte yes i understand that but you know it still blows my mind that the federal reimbursement is going to bring us out ahead of what we would normally bring in and knowing that you know we charge uh what was it three dollars at the high school level right so we charge three dollars and then the federal government under the under a paid under the paid program gives us 40 cents so that's three dollars and 40 cents whereas when we're claiming that

018all is free that meal we're now getting 3.58 cents so it's 18 cents higher and more revenue that we're getting than if we were charging the student for the meal so if we didn't offer the free lunches we probably wouldn't be in this we probably would not come out ahead correct yes because we wouldn't have that increased revenue so a la carte is why i have to keep reloading the girls account yes yes and a la carte we do not let students charge all a cart so they have to have either a cash in hand or they need to have money on their account um because that's the way our meal charge um policy is so so seconds i was a lunchroom mom so there was a lot of i'm going for seconds if seconds

019i would assume would not be able to participate in this so they've already received a reimbursable lunch they cannot get a second one usda is it says it's one per child so if they've already gotten a reimbursable meal anything else that they would get on in addition to that recharge all a cart so if students opt for seconds and a la carte items with this federal subsidy we could really come out ahead in the food service area yes and especially if the rate for seamless summer is higher next year there i mean i don't they're saying it could be as high as over four dollars possibly how sustainable is that at some point is the department of agriculture gonna pull back there is legislation to make meals universally free now where that goes i have

020no i mean but there is a big push for that from certain everything's free yes but i mean i think that is going to be a challenge if and when meals go back to being paid for people to understand why was it free last year and now i have to pay for it and it will be an educational well and the thought was like when we did this when this first started in march 2020 the thought was there could be families impacted let's just make the meals free um and so that was march 2020 and then it was extended throughout the summer right then extended throughout it's been expanded extended many times yeah um so okay so we're just talking about how free and free lunches will continue for next year okay but if you

021just look at it from the school district's perspective it's you could argue it's finally a means of getting some federal funding and offset and refresh your own personal yeah since we got no pandemic relief from the second and third rounds yeah when it's money out of pocket for families that they down well again if the food served once we we did have to subsidize the food service account through the general fund last year and and they're going to have to do that again this year and we'll have to pay that back so whatever uh profit we end up turning it will be put back into the general fund dimension but that deficit was because we weren't we didn't have the kids in the building every revenue margin right they were in a hybrid attendance model

022right right because we only had 50 of the kids there so our customer base if you think of it as a restaurant because basically we are 24 restaurants operating in each of the school buildings um we only were able to have half the amount of kids on a given day of our customers on a given day any other questions this is very helpful yeah good good okay so that will be communicated to our parents that you only have to put money in their accounts for the a la carte right extras a la carte yes yep and we encourage them i mean and it helps our department when families do participate and get a and they select a meal so it is beneficial for them to participate because that does help our department okay so all

023right thank you thank you i'll pass around snacks you should start at that end yeah next we have our building projects update with jeff gordon and bill o'sullivan oh and bruce runyon's going to speak to bruce you're coming up too oh okay well thanks for the opportunity to talk about our new shell meadows elementary i thought what we'd do is start with uh [Music] well first of all you just want to head to the slide shows is it ready to go yes sir okay great i thought we'd step back the last time we were together we looked at where we were i thought we'd pick up from there and then walk through the building a little bit of the site do a little aerial photograph kind of stuff and then talk about a wrap-up of

024where we are and what's going to finish so here we go last time we were together there were things happening dramatically every month there was a dramatic change on a site so i thought i'd just throw that in for the fun of it and we went from foundations to getting enclosed in structure and then there we go once we reached that point anybody driving by would say well you guys have stopped working because it really looks like it slowed down but it didn't obviously a lot went on the building got the breathing and living and all that as work continued through the winter and we're up to date now and this is this is the front of the school gravel you see in the main parking lot but that will be paved hopefully next week

025we've had some rain and that hasn't been a good thing this past week but it's getting close um so now we'll walk through the new school together we're all probably pretty familiar with the layout but let's uh just walk in the main lobby and that's it with a little bit of tools and carts in the way but getting close down the corridor to a early learning classroom and you can see the restroom with the stepladder in and then it we'll head to the center of the school where we've got the uh student dining and a partition that goes between student dining and gym and there we are with that and right next door we've got media center with some protection on the carpet and as we leave that we'll go down a green corridor and

026head to the back of the school to a classroom so that that's kind of a very quick walk through the school you've seen them all but just to give you an idea where we are with progress even base or in this picture the little detail at the bottom of the wall the base isn't in there in the picture but it's in there now so flooring is just about done so it's uh any significant differences in the floor plan is this pretty much the standard elementary it's the extension yeah it was extended i'm going to say 30 feet bruce will correct me and make it 32 and a half or so but it was about 30 feet classrooms and just a swath kind of through the middle which created some classroom additions but also a great

027mezzanine for mechanical that we didn't have before okay so that is a difference okay if we go out the back door right by the uh the classroom we're into the back where the playgrounds are in this case finally some asphalt got started and you can see that the black in the front the side that is light gravel will get paved that's playground but the light tan is a soft surface and that's the nice new soft surface for that playground equipment and and that that playground area is complete right now [Music] and we'll walk around to the other side of the school bus drop offside has a base down bill can you go back is there the same the that's the playground equipment that we'll be putting in all the are similar to all the yes

028new elementaries with the accessibility and right and and the the soft surface as well mr ram yeah okay okay and then base course down on the bus side so it's finally getting to be black and not tan which is a good thing and now i'd like to just step to another piece that's the building per se as i guess we all know there are some other things that had to happen on this project that are maybe a little different than in the past this drawing shows two things that i wanted to bring up one the red line that goes from you can tell where the school is kind of in the center upper quadrant there's a red line that goes from that on down that is a force main so that is for the sewer

029that will leave the school that ties into those that stepped area down in the lower left hand corner is a gravity for a gravity sewer that is being done by the county and it's not yet ready to accept the discharge from our force main so as we speak we don't have a force main that is allowed to be turned on by the county our force main is ready to go but it can't be started up until the county says it's okay to put effluent into their sewer i'll talk about schedule here in just a minute about that the other side of the site you can see the kind of curvy line on the one side that's the north road extension and that is underway right now as well but it's not there yet so we

030are still using the temporary construction road to get in and out of the school so um for what that means we'll get there this is an aerial and the light color at the bottom is the parking lot of the school the curved section is the new north road extension being cut and goes into peach blow road which they'll be around about up there so this is just just last week it hasn't changed a lot with the rain they haven't done a whole lot more if we continue down that road to the front of the school it's just passing by they're making cuts and crossing over our temporary construction road which is the very white road that goes also up to peach blow then if we turn a little more to the right that road curves

031around past the retention basin and it will continue so just to give you a feel for what they've done so far they being the contractor on behalf of the county building that road okay so to put that into some kind of context remaining flooring is just about complete in our building and asphalt paving as i mentioned will be completed next week with the weather we have this week life safety testing will occur next week and i'm going to drop back on that in a minute loose furnishings has always been planned to start after the 4th of july and still is going to happen as planned so those items that i just mentioned are all the pieces that the school is responsible for directly has under contract they are on schedule for a 7-1 completion which

032was the planned completion date from the beginning the other piece i just want to mention quickly is we can't i guess not talk about coded on the project luckily there weren't any dramatic impacts because of covin on the project there's a lot of protocol set up hand washing masks and all that we lost some days but overall it was made up so it didn't impact the end result which was a beautiful thing telephone and fiber still not installed we're hoping for them here shortly in the middle of the month but they may extend a little bit uh off-site sewer looked like end of july it could get earlier but the county is giving us different answers we're not sure yet exactly where that'll fall but it'll be some time it looks like in the month

033of july north road was planned to be first week of july more or less with the rain it's probably going to slow a little bit so that's going to move into july as well so the bottom line is the life safety that we do next week will result in hopefully a successful life safety but at best would be a conditional life safety because until there is a completed road not the road so much for the sewer we have to be able to put sewer somewhere that'll be the final life safety when that's done so that final will occur sometime after that offsite sewer is complete so overall in good shape but waiting for these other off-site things to fall into place so any questions on that our thoughts i'm worried about that sewer the good

034news is not to get into too much detail with the thing but there's a there's a piece of it a drop they call it so much fun to talk about yeah when you're opening up a school you kind of need it yeah yeah two things about that one uh it sounds as though the county is making good steps in getting the thing completed and have said some things that we're actually very sound reasons that it sounds like it's getting close so uh we still have to wait there are two components to it one they have to finish the tie-in stuff but the main thing is down the highest road there's a pump station down there and that has to be completed in order to accept any effluent that goes down the gravity sewer to it

035that's the piece they have to get done in any case in the worst case we had already set up a pumping a truck to come and pump out the pump station that's on site so that in the worst case we can continue to do that so the school will be operational it's just a question of which path we have to take to do it i would say it's it's really a nice thing to see the protocols for dealing with the kovid that the impact has been very minimal a project we're working on right now a little over a year in construction one contractor was off site for three days that's a virus and that was it the protocols are just great to see these contractors and owners paying a lot of attention to keeping that

036kind of safety in place certainly true that's about what we experienced sort of day we we actually closed for two days around christmas yeah and maybe christmas had some input in that too i don't know but uh it was the only lost total days we had other than that it was an occasional crew that would disappear for a bit so could you speak to the um what's the worst case scenario with the road yeah the worst case scenario would be we continue to use the temporary road that we're using right now so that it's probable that furniture furnishings could get delivered on the temporary road they will they will get delivered on that road yeah because that that new road will not be done when furniture begins they could finish before furniture's done but it

037will begin on a temporary road yeah and i guess as we think of kind of finishing shell meadows and think of the new middle school a lot of inflationary pressure on goods and materials i mean i know these aren't lumber heavy buildings but are we seeing it in other materials oh yeah i think in in the middle school as mr runyan and mr gordon talk about it we can talk about that more but um it was interesting that to that point on this school this school was bid just about the time that governor dewine was starting to put the brakes on everything and it spooked the construction industry because just prior to that it was just taking off and continuing and we were very concerned about exactly that anyway prior to kovit so we ended

038up hitting a uh just a drop in the market right when this bid so it was excellent for shale meadows for the middle school uh yeah what you said mr o'brien is right that's that's where we are now there's a lot of inflation occurring it's uh it's it's lumber which in the case of our schools isn't a big component but steel is dramatically higher than they used to be with with longer lead times so that that'll be a another struggle we'll we'll talk more about okay okay okay if we were starting shale meadows with the timeline we the aggressive timeline we undertook now in these current conditions it never would have happened because of the lead times of the construction materials that's right that's exactly right any other questions but it wasn't it was the

039most aggressive timeline we've ever that we've ever undertaken to get a school done and there were some delays of the land donation and some of those things that didn't help us but you've got a great record of on time and under budget they do and i will say good facts right this this particular school having had the pleasure and opportunity thank you for being involved in many of our elementaries um and i always do compare them and always try to make the next one the better one and this really was one of the best ones we've had from a construction standpoint on site so that was certainly the good news bill thank you who's next bruce thank you good evening everybody i'm gonna just do a very brief review of middle school 6 and pretty

040much where it's at in terms of its permitting and bidding getting ready to get started the exciting thing was a lot of you were with us at the groundbreaking two weeks ago and or maybe that was just last week but since then the the site where contractor is starting to mobilize if you go up by the site you will see site work equipment that's getting ready if mother nature will start to cooperate with us we'll start seeing some dirt getting moved next week we hope and that'll be a start to about 20 21 months of construction we hope that will get us to opening the building for the school year starting in the summer fall of 2023 so it's ready its prime to go and the other actions we'll take later on here that jeff

041will talk about with the second gmp for that we'll get all the contractors in place for robertson construction and then we're off to the races so as i said many of you had seen this before the middle school is on piet road just south of olentangy berlin high school just north of cheshire elementary school between the western edges on gregory road the eastern edge where you enter is on piet road and it's a it's a great site for a middle school it's a great campus when you tie it all together with cheshire and with berlin high school you're making it even better campus by connecting parts and pieces of the bike path that aren't currently there along that road it'll tie in great and with bike path access directly to the building to the athletic

042fields and then tie into bike paths that will tie in all the way up to berlin station road through berlin high school so it's it's going to be a great campus in a couple of years when that all gets completed i'm going to step away from the microphone i've got a big mouse so you can you'll all hear me real quick so we've developed a one way in one way out scheme on this building so we have one way in on the north driveway and the buses will be on the right lane the vehicular parent traffic student traffic will be on the left lane as they come in so buses will come back and empty their buses here in the back parents will come in and they can cue into and park or queue up

043and drop off their students here and then one way out two lanes one north one southbound there with that worked harder with the county on that traffic scheme to make sure that they were up to speed with everything on that we have a large upfront parking lot here this offers more parking in that front parking lot than what you're used to at hyatt's what you're used to at berkshire because we had the land we had the ability and we know we could never build enough parking spaces and then equipment parking back here if this is used this is going to be used mostly for events after the fact and for events with the athletic field competition field that is here as well as the softball baseball and practice fields that are a little further to

044the west there as is this here and then here's this bike path that we just spoke out those high all the way up into berlin high school these are large retention ponds to help with the storm drainage it ties into a system that quite frankly the bernalillo high school tied into uh years ago so you're just adding to it and it's coming down um the uh the floor plan again this was all based off of hyatt's middle school and berkshire middle school which been successful in middle schools for the district um but you had additional needs so we've talked about this in the past you needed more academic space that's what this building offers you so the dark green boxes are additional classroom and extended learning areas this offers basically six additional classroom educational academic

045areas than what we have at hyatts and berkshire okay you needed two more science rooms so that's two of those spaces and then when we brought in the what we always call the connector from those buildings that is tied into the elementary school at hyatt's or future elementary school at berkshire if that ever happens those were brought in this is a middle school-only site the connector really wouldn't fit so we brought that in lengthened out that two-story academic wing on the building and as we did that it created some very natural space that you're going to use as extended learning areas uh in that and this was all vetted through and talked quite a bit about with the administration with superintendent wave with dr feddy with the middle school principals that have lived in this

046building again their number one was give us as much academic space as you can so that happened this building is about 10 000 square feet bigger than the buildings that we've built in the past for the middle school so so with that additional space both classroom space and square footage how does this capacity compare to a normal that capacity could be looked at in a couple of different ways the capacity of berkshire and hyatts was always around 900 students this could be bumped up to that gets you into a thousand or more but it's also to offer the more more academic offerings that the district has been trying to do in other spaces that you just haven't had because of our growth so it's going to depend on that again i i you always want

047a straight answer from me i can't give it to you because it goes back to the academic program and that's not going to be my building that has academic space it gets underutilized because you can't get the kids through the cafeteria yeah well one of the places where you put additional square footage was in that cafeteria to help with that issue too so very good and then the second floor it it's really a carbon copy the two rooms the two blue rooms in the middle is where we place the additional science classrooms uh in that this plan has worked well for the district it's just got additional space to help with the programs and help with capacity issues long term and then aesthetically a little hard to see this but aesthetically it is still the

048masonry buildings two different colors of masonry this is all concrete block integral color masonry a low slope roof it has metal siding on the high spaces of the gymnasium the cafeteria it is still a good economical building but as jeff's going to talk about the construction cost is going way up right now it's an extremely busy market you couple that with material shortages and just your costs have just raised up quite frankly in a presentation that we gave to the development committee last week they were thrilled at where the building came in at quite frankly even with the construction cost i feel fortunate and that's part of working off of a good model that you had to begin with and having good good partners with robertson construction certainly with you folks as an owner and

049again olin tangi plays well in the construction market in central ohio when it comes to schools and the fact that this is based off of two successful projects that the contractors have remembered over the years all that comes into play with where we're at with this so we're in good shape permitting wise we're in pretty good shape we've got verbal approvals start moving dirt work and there's going to be a lot of dirt work on this site to move that's what's going to get started most likely next week we're that close on having all the official approvals from delaware county engineers office on the rest of it and that's more dotting the eyes and crossing the t's right now i was up at the building department today we're that close to having a full building

050permit for the project to actually physically build the building with so there's not going to be any delays or any hold ups because of any of that stuff and we've got great partners in delaware county the engineers office delaware county building safety and delaware county health department that that we deal with on a regular basis uh on behalf of the district so things are going well from that standpoint and i'm going to leave the hard part to mr gordon tonight and that's where we're at financially with things so any questions for me thanks again for the opportunities i'll also put a plug in uh you got a lot of work going on in the district jeff and i have been talking about playgrounds security vestibules broadcast journalism rooms paving projects you name it we've been

051talking about you've got every building seems in the district's got multiple projects going on right now and you'll see the fruits of everybody's labor here as we get close to opening school in august so a lot of stuff going on right now though there you go thank you where i heard of buildings the security festival's already done not quite not quite they start putting framing up but it's not complete so background's almost done in two of them too all right just to before i move on to mine to wrap up a couple things that mr runyon mentioned when he talked about the in and out pattern of the busing at the middle school that's the similar uh as the bus lanes that we're putting in at hyatts which i was mobilizing this week and we'll

052be starting so that's a similar try to separate that traffic so that we carried that over to this middle school when we when we designed it the other thing mr o'brien the cafeteria i believe the seating capacity when we added that space was about a hundred extra kids per lunch so just uh to your point i that was a point um i think that's one of the things having these gentlemen who i always can't give them enough praise with the work that they do and being community members the time that they put in and the effort they put in meeting in especially the design phase with mr runyan meeting with when we did berlin high school mr rafe mr wright mr meyer who had all been principals getting their input and taking what was a

053good solid building and even making it better we've done the same thing at the elementary school shel meadows i had a secretary tell me today i saw the plans for the new elementary it's like you guys took everything we've been talking about for the last several years and put into that new building well it is because we brought in principals who had been in those buildings and met with mr runy and met with the design team and had those conversations so it really has been a great process and then that leads into my discussion with the budget because it's you know we've used the old buildings that we've done not the well they're getting the old buildings now the buildings that have the same floor plan so in the elementaries middle schools so back two

054years ago in 2019 when we were putting together budgets for these buildings to try to estimate the cost we took averages of two or three of the elementary schools and we took the high bid the low bid created an average and then inflated that up to come up with budget numbers and that's that's going to go into what i'm talking about here and same thing with the middle school we use that same process but if you remember uh back at that time through the facilities committee and mr bartz was on the committee time i think ms patrick was there as well we had a lot of conversation about how hard it was to price these two buildings to estimate the cost because of what we're seeing with inflation and that was the regular construction inflation

055we're seeing at the time from just busy market shortage of of workers and those things so put on top of that the cost that we're seeing now because the shortages of material and all those those other things that are escalating up we were fortunate to get bidders for all of our packages robertson shared with us that they had another package that they they didn't get bidders on their first time around for another building they had to go out and really push people to try to bid on it so the projects have gone well enough and and owen tangi and they like working with good documents and the team that we have that we were able to get bidders for all of our all of ours so which leads me into just want to give a

056wrap up on on the shell meadows budget so the left column is the original budget and that's what we talked about here with the um was developed using those averages and and working with facilities committee come up with the cost that we thought for that building so as you can see uh i'll just stick with the bottom line i won't spend a lot of time on it uh 23 million dollars 23.6 was our budget for that building uh as mr o'sullivan mentioned we went out at a very good time right after kovid contractors a little worried so that top line the construction cost we original budget was 19 million we were we came fortunate to commit 17 million uh you can see there was quite a bit of savings on that building the but far

057right column are the actual to dates where we stand there's still more costs and more to be paid i just want to give you a snapshot of where we are today the one thing it about one with this at budget actual to date and where we're at what we know about the building right now and how well the project's gone there are some contingencies in there as well they're in that budget as well as some as well as some allowances that are in the 14 million dollars at the top um i'm sorry 17 million construction costs there's some allowances in there that are part of the contracts we work very hard uh working with robertson and again our representatives behind me that um to make sure the allowances aren't spent unless it's necessary make sure

058contingencies aren't spent unless it's necessary we review every one of those i'm not sure that happens on all construction projects and all school construction projects so we expect uh in addition to the money we saved at bid day we're expecting to get the contingencies and some of the allowances back somewhere around a quarter of a million back on that that project [Music] so the original projected budget was the 23 million six the final gmp budget was the 20 million uh that was remaining a building bond balance of uh two million seven hundred fifteen thousand four sixty that was left over from this project our so once we had that cost for that savings at bid day and we had some off-site cost from the development of the land and that was the temporary sanitary line

059we put in after the developer the builder backed out on that site to put the homes in and then we had the water line that we shared with delco now normally if we had a water line had to be built to our school we had to cover that cost we approached delco and said you know eventually this water line is going to feed the development that's between us and where we're connecting to and uh delco was great and stepped up and said uh i think we'll split the cost with you since we know that the developer will bring bring some money back to delco and they actually put it in we designed it had our our ct consultants designed that for us but then delco put that in and they have a better cost of

060of doing that in contracts they have because they use these these contractors all the time so they put that in at a lower cost than we could have put it in and then split the cost with us so that's the the total cost for that off-site to date is 626 000 i think that'll be the the balance for the off-site which gives us the estimated remaining balance of just over two million dollars again that's from what we estimated that building to cost at the time and the plan at this time is to use that money to offset some pi funds that we use to purchase the land for middle school six remember we had property to the north that wasn't quite ready to be developed yet we we hunted and bought the site that the

061middle school currently will sit on so that will help offsite offset some of those pi costs so then to the height or the middle school as you can see again the estimated building cost that was developed through that process we talked about and that was a 45 million dollar budget for the whole project and we've we've now gone out to bid completed the bid process the board has approved the gmp tonight and we are almost 2.3 million dollars over what we estimated there's a lot of things that go into that i know that we talked earlier about the inflation we were concerned with in the facilities committee at the time we were approving budgets to go on the bond talked about inflation and their concern with it at the time again before the material shortage

062and we talked about a 10 million dollar contingency to deal with those things if we need it um so that that is out there if we need it we'll talk a little bit about this budget and and uh where we sit today and so 48 million for the actual project about 2.3 million over now we expect and i'm gonna say i just talked about getting what we think about a quarter of a million dollars back on the elementary school there are some contingencies and some allowances in here that if this project can go well and some of the market conditions don't don't push us out we can recover and we have you can see the construction contingencies is 581 000 as well as the owner's contingency down below is another 593 thousand dollars so we

063have those normal contingencies in there in addition to that we have five hundred thousand dollars in contingencies in there for broken up really into into two buckets the first is uh market conditions uh the second is our temp heating and cooling normally we include this in the budget but with the timeline of this building we would normally hit a part in construction where we don't have to do a lot of temp heating or cooling because of the timing of when it's there but if we have to wait on some materials and it pushes us further out whereas our second winter the winter of of 2022 we could be in a situation where we would have been using the permanent heating and cooling where we have to supply temp heating and cooling so we have a

064250 000 contingency in there and we did it as a contingency because again we control that much more so we have those conversations before that's spent rather than just automatically include that in the budget building budget we want to have some control over how that money was spent as well as another 250 000 in market conditions that if we get delayed with material we have to push out so if the project goes six weeks longer that's going to be six weeks more of other costs labor people the subcontractors having people on site still working so we've tried to cover for all those costs so we will work hard on this building to track all of those contingencies and those allowances and only use them if they're if they're necessary any questions are you going to

065touch on the playgrounds and the security vestibules i do not have pictures but i can give you the updates we have started robertson is working with us on that there were just too many projects for us to do ourselves in house we have aside from the new construction of the buildings we have i think 81 projects going on and that's not counting 81 at different buildings some you know for example the asphalt projects some of the ones that are different buildings uh 81 projects not counting what our maintenance staff is doing for projects this summer so we brought robertson in to help manage that and they have been fantastic they've got two separate crews working on playgrounds so they have been at or touched i think somewhere around eight to ten playgrounds already between demo

066and and then some of them have equipment being installed and the security vestibules they have three teams one for the high school middle school vestibules there were five of those so they have two teams demoing and getting those ready i'm sorry one team on the high and middle and then two teams split out on the elementary doing the elementary demo and and uh moving forward on those so uh every one of the security vestibules i believe has been demoed out or close to having been the demo taken out ready for the doorways and starting the framing so yeah we have three broadcast journalisms going on those have all started in all three buildings as well and um i think that's all the i'm sorry i already mentioned the hyatt's middle school bus loop has has

067been they're mobilized for that as well brian did you have a question yeah i just want to understand so we've got some favorability on the elementary yes we have some headwinds on the middle school yes why wouldn't we use one to offset the other and you know both timing issues i will i will defer to yes they can the bond funds in terms of the cash and the accounting sits in a single account so to your point the gain that we have on shale meadows can help offset some of the additional costs that we're finding coming on board for middle school six so net for the bond package that we've sold we're still in good shape and we do have when we were costing those out to mr gordon's point we put in a contingency

068for the rise in inflation costs in the materials when we did shale meadows so we've we're not scared yet um we feel we're in good good shape thus far and we'll keep our eyes on those costs to see if it continues to rise to a point where we feel we might have an issue but at this point we're still on target overall yeah good but we also built in when we were developing the package i think it was you that was pretty adamant about building enough contingency into the bond package that we would be able to have the authority to sell enough if we needed it um because there was so much uncertainty with construction costs but again we only sell the bonds we need once we determine what the pricing of all this this

069is so um you know again i think that was prudent when we developed the package i just don't want people to walk away say oh the middle school's running over they're going to be coming back for money no i think we've got it yeah yes we have an overall budget that should cover this we also um just to let the community know as we're sitting here and we have an audience it's great to see you guys um we have about 27 million dollars that we have not issued for the second elementary we have talked about that we are looking at our enrollment projections and trying to get our hands around where the preschool kindergarten enrollment will come in as coveted restrictions lessen and open up for this coming fall so we'll keep our eye on

070that but there is also a component that hasn't been sold to make sure that we're not incurring that interest cost until we're ready to begin construction on that building so this does not represent the the voted package in its entirety okay anything else for jeff thank you thank you all right our new next presentation is a strategic planning update mr rafe yes good evening thank you thank you welcome everyone as we discussed while back probably was march or so we wanted to give um the board and community an update on our strategic plan uh where we are with um with the plan as you remember this this went into place um 2016-17 uh was when we kind of developed and uh finalized uh the implementation of this uh for us to move forward with long

071term we always had a vision and and mission statement and and um the vision statement if you remember was probably three pages of verbiage that was not easy easy to verbalize and it included a lot of phrases that were our our value statements so we took that vision statement and synthesized it into a more simple phrase to be the recognized leader for high performance and efficiency in education our mission statement is what grounds us in all that we do to facilitate maximum learning for every student so those value statements were all part of that and those are the uh the behaviors that we expect of everyone in the organization as we perform our functions so those are the foundational pieces of our strategic plan from that we identified um four strategic priorities and those are

072kind of our our pillars of the work that we do and they are learning and organizational development our students and stakeholders resource stewardship and our internal processes and if you think about them in terms of a simple question the students and stakeholders are you know who we care about um or who do we care about the uh resource stewardship is you know what do we have um our internal processes are how do we do things and our learning and organizational development are um how we learn and grow and improve so those strategic priorities should stand the test of time they should outlast a board superintendent because there really isn't anything else in a learning organization like a school district that i personally i think you would have as a priority you know again if we're

073going to achieve the mission to facilitate maximum learning for every student we have to have a plan that is aligned with goals and work plans that that aligned you know we use this as our guiding principle as a as a guide every meeting we have as a district leadership team everything we talk about has to fit into one of our strategic priorities and so as we plan all the work that we do and we're doing that same kind of work with the buildings as well so from the strategic or within each strategic priority we have three strategic objectives and those could or probably should change over time so within students and stakeholders you see alleviating barriers to learning expand community engagement and relationships and promote a culture of inclusive excellence within learning and organizational development

074we have established our brand identity foster leadership development and ensure mastery of learning and then internal processes we have implemented digital conversion expand our talent management strategy strive for a culture of operational excellence and then resource stewardship we have maximize investments and revenue model fiscal responsibility and transparency and then manage our assets wisely so we're going to start off today with our learning and organizational development and i'm going to ask a member of the leadership team to speak as they have most of the responsibility in these areas so we're going to kick it off with mrs davis our chief communications officer to talk about establishing our brand identity okay hello everyone and thank you mr rafe all right so we are going to spend a little bit more time on this strategic goal tonight because

075we're sharing we're recapping some things and then sharing some new information so starting out just to refresh our memories as to why this is one of the 12 goals on our strategic plan we wanted to establish a brand identity this is something we've talked a lot about with you as a board and this was important to create logos and marks that we own and allow us to trademark and protect our intellectual property and eliminate trademark infringements which we have had several of and then remove all native american imagery while creating more inclusive imagery while doing that we also are able to create a modest revenue stream for the district through a licensing program which we are just beginning and so i know mr o'brien that's something that we've talked about quite a lot through the

076years and we're now finally at that point where we have the marks and we're able to move forward so not only does it allow us to trademark and have that licensing program but it also allows us to protect our marks and our brand identity which is important so there were two phases in this in this goal one was to develop our district brand identity and launch that and so we did that in april of 2019 and then in phase two we addressed all of our buildings so the elementary middle and high school we'll talk a little bit about each of those so when we launched our district brand these are some of the logos that we had but that brand identity includes not just imagery but also the tagline flourish here as well as six

077brand pillars so we really dove into what does it mean to be part of our olentangy community and six brand pillars or pillars came up that's opportunity community personal achievement pride exceptional value and educational excellence and you'll see those things on our website we use those those are all important to students parents community staff in our district and so we then moved on to our elementaries where we didn't have a brand identity previously most of our schools look to the high schools that they at that time were currently directed towards but as we know in olympia the growth creates need for redistricting frequently and so we want each of our schools to have a brand identity that the kids can be excited about while they are at that school and be part of so the

078parameters for this part of the project were that the group the brand project team for each school either select an animal or an insect have an alliteration with the name of the school and develop school colors so we were able to do that as the pandemic started and finished during during spring of 2020 and in august of 2020 our elementaries rolled out their brand identities as well as shale meadows which it will be the monarchs as you see there lots of excitement last school year surrounding these and throughout the year the from kindergarten registration through fifth grade clap outs the students and staff and parents have really embraced these then we moved on to our middle school brands and so our parameters surrounding this allowed us to maintain our mascot names but change the existing

079imagery and so in each of these cases elementary middle and high school a brand project team was created at each building which involves staff parents and in the middle school level the students were asked to weigh in through different teachers and their this was during the time of the spring of 2020 so they were doing a lot of this work virtually and so in january we shared the following five uh images that went with the eagles the trailblazers the sentinels the scouts and the warriors and for each of these schools they had a creed that was also developed for them and that has become a really important point of pride for each of these buildings because they really identifies who they are and what they're all about and so in each of these brand committees

080for across all of our buildings the group talked about what was important to them what does it mean to be a hyatt's eagle orange trailblazer etc and so that's really what was the foundation of the imagery that was created and then we moved on to our high school brand identities and of course there is a lot more that happens at the high school level so we were able to involve the athletic directors the coaches staff students parents administration for each of the high schools to talk about the brands we again the parameters surrounding this project were to keep the name but and the colors but to change the imagery or update the imagery during that time we spent a lot of time talking about again what it means to be a member of each of

081these school communities obviously berlin just opening their project was a little bit different so we were able to maintain their imagery but add to their logo kit so with each of these uh each of these skulls and i know we haven't had a formal presentation yet here at a board meeting with the high school images so we're going to roll through these each school has 13 logos or variations of logos so they can mix and match depending on athletics extracurriculars academics etc so we'll start with olin tng high school which is a river hawk or an osprey they wanted to choose something that was representative of this area this bird is found in this area and they wanted something that demonstrated fierceness olentangy high school this these you'll see the blocko we moved from the

082blocko to more of a olyn tangio and oval o with a script across each of the o's for their mascot name their school name and then for them for ole tng they sometimes refer to themselves as tangy so they have that as well and then we were able to bring the feather through each of the the oh right there and then their creed and their crest their crest is actually an updated crest of the elements that existed in their former crest and then added their river hawk to the top of it liberty high school in their mascot in their conversation about what it means to be a patriot they had a lot of images with stars in there in all of their existing logos so they really wanted the element of stars to flow throughout

083all of their marks and so we talked a lot about a forward-looking patriot what does it mean to be a patriot today and this is the image that they wanted to develop they feel that this is a good academic image for them and they i think are planning on using this a lot surrounding their academics and then they have um you'll see the stars there they're what we call on the right the l star is something that they had some very similar and have continued that is those across the top with the stars tend to be ones that the uh coat the teams and the athletic department use and then they also have a creed and a crest and then orange high school went ahead and they talked about what it means to be a

084pioneer and they talked about being a forward thinking pioneer and they talked about the pioneering spirit looking ahead climbing the mountain reaching achieving heights and so this was the image that they selected they also have their block o or their olentango with orange and then the script across each o for their orange and their pioneers and then that p and the bottom center for the pioneers then they have their creed and then their crest and on their crest you can see their acronym for crest which talks about some of their character traits which are very important to them and then berlin high school continues to have these existing marks and then here are their new marks so they have modified the o and the ob with a claw and then they have additional claws with

085their marks and then they had an existing belief statement so they don't have a creed because this is very similar to that and that is a belief statement and they had the crust that you see there on the right and so what is next is that we are creating brand guides to to give guard rails on how we use all of these marks we will approve in the communications team all of the use of the marks and allow for creativity and individuality while protecting those school identities our partner k-12 licensing which we talked about a few months ago we'll work with vendors and distributors and then we will be sharing as well as the schools the principals will be sharing thoughts from our students and staff about what it means to be a member of

086each of their school communities as we get ready to return to school and before randy goes are there any questions yeah i have a question um this question came up from um someone in the um who had emailed me the process of redoing any images that we have like on the fields or on the gymnasium or you know throughout even on uniforms and you do you want to explain that sure they the turf will not be torn up the gym floor will not be torn up those things will be replaced as they're as they are needed to be replaced as things as uniforms are worn out and need to be replaced that is when items will be replaced and use new logos and marks and just as a reminder for the existing teams when they

087want new uniforms that's the boosters help raise the money for the unicorns um so we'll buy the uniforms when we open up you know a new school like when we open up the next middle school but then the booster groups then contribute to the or the parents in some cases contribute to the any new uniforms correct and then the turf all the turf fields have turf replacement funds they use rental fees from in the sales of tickets and that's what is used to replace the turf yes any questions okay all right all right mr right thank you good evening everyone so the second of our goals in this area that we want to talk about tonight is fostering leadership development and i'm honored to get a work with our principals administrators across the district in

088this regard just one real quick slide to share about what we've been doing and where we're heading so this has been as part of our process from the summer of 2016 through where we are now and it is an ongoing process where we have spent a lot of time uh with the the leaders that were all in place at that time and as new leaders and administrators come into the district we onboard them through a streamlined process here understanding ourselves as leaders strengths where we have opportunities for growth what we try to do is develop a consistent language of leadership across the district and that includes all facets of the organization so that we can join together and talk about the things that help us do the best that we can for our students and

089staff we've had to use what we've learned prior to the start of this past school year adapt to those unique needs that we have been experiencing this past year we had a explicit study at times we utilized different content and we knew going into this we're going to have to keep a positive mentality so we did a sort of a book study uh in the power of positive leadership uh and as we continue to unwrap what we do uh we we try to weave that into what we've built upon and carry us forward we were able to continue our quarterly legion meetings where we take a mixed group of administrators from different areas different levels and different uh personality traits uh to try to bring them together to talk about one the the content the

090book but also to develop some understanding about how each of the roles in the organization function together and we have continued our small group and individual conversations and so that has been a big part of what we've done where we're heading and this has been one of the uh i don't know if it's a missed opportunity but we've we've worked a little bit too much in in silos in the past around professional development and our goal now is to synthesize the professional development that our staff goes through that our administrators go through and that are our classified workers our our student aides our our drivers our food service workers and we want to make sure that the opportunity exists that we have all of our employees being developed together and we've kind of a lot

091of our academic focus is on our teachers but we know that in order to serve the needs of each of our students all of us need to do our best each and every day and so that's our goal is where we're heading is to try and get a more synthesized approach across the district to build upon the work that's been done uh thus far so again just a quick update of of where we are and what we're doing and take any questions that you might have at this time any questions all right thank you good evening so as far as um our uh priority of ensuring mastery of learning um i think we have a double slide there the uh we i had presented when we first began the strategic plan on the high reliability

092school framework in which there are 72 indicators across five increasingly difficult levels of reliability to ensure that we're you know firing on all cylinders so to speak as it comes to um creating opportunities for kids to succeed um starting with safety within the school environment and working our way up to um you know comprehensive standards referenced reporting and competency-based education um so that continues to be kind of our definition um of this this objective um lately um we've had professional development we're on a multi-year cycle of professional development for emphasizing the importance of student belonging within the classroom within the school building and how that leads to student success our curriculum departments and pupil services department and technology department have all supported um effective teaching strategies within a digital environment this year obviously you're well

093aware of our committed distance learning program where we had 5000 students fully online this year we continue to create and maintain our curriculum blueprints and academic vocabulary which i addressed i believe at the last board meeting we've also rolled out the portrait of a learner that you're familiar with we continue to work on improving our response to intervention process which is a way is a process for identifying student unique student needs of individual learners and addressing those needs and then of course the state has issued new graduation requirements and diploma seals over the last few years that we continue to we're following their timelines and scaling that up where we're headed in the near future is the states uh has updated the teacher evaluation system so ohio teacher evaluation system what we call otez the

094state has released otez 2.0 which we're going to have to implement this year so we're focusing a lot on our principals and our teachers and preparing them for that new system and it's causing us to in a good way take a new approach to a balanced assessment system the new evaluation system treats assessments differently than the previous evaluation system if you you may remember hearing the phrase slos or student learning objectives those were a big part of otez 1.0 and that whole element is changing in 2.0 so there's lots of training to be done this summer and throughout the early parts of next year to make sure that all of our staff are equipped to implement the new system we're also in the fall going to be launching a curriculum instruction teacher resource calling the

095hub it's uh basically we're putting resources in one place easily searchable to help teachers identify the appropriate this isn't just about curricular resources it's also about instructional strategies so when teachers are looking for how do i help a certain student with a certain need that might be unique we're going to have a database that they can refer to for assistance it'll also be very useful in aiding teacher collaboration and then we're finalizing a k5 math instructional model that we uh hoped to have had done this past year and kind of got drug out because of all the events of the past year so we're very excited to finish that process in the coming year hopefully so it's been a very interesting year in terms of teaching and learning but we've still been moving forward and

096doing a lot and the strategic plan has been very helpful and as mark had indicated focusing our conversations not just at the leadership team level but at the department level as well as in the buildings okay i have a question question um the database of resources for a balanced assessment is that part of the rti process uh it'll support the rti process for sure yeah it's not exclusive to it but it will encompass it yes thank you i have a question so the hub will all teachers be able to contribute to that or is that just what uh so yeah the contribution process you know we're doing a vetting process to make sure what makes it in there is uh well research supported proven but yes all teachers would have the ability to suggest an

097addition or a change because we want it to reflect all of our teachers as well you know one of our values here is is collaboration and this is as we see it another way to collaborate not just within our departments in a single school but across the district throughout the year not just on professional development days okay okay thank you all right thank you very much yeah the next meeting will do krista which internal processes i think is the next one no no uh students and stakeholders or no yeah students think no you changed on me i'll go back yeah so we'll have an update on the 24th on another strategic priority the eighth and then in august first meeting in august and be ready to start school year okay all right board president's report

098um i want to touch on the state budget process i'm going to touch on the process mrs hatfield is going to touch on the numbers when it comes time for her to just do her report so um where do i begin um back in 1991 no because that's how this mess started but there seems to be no consensus on fixing a problem that has been determined to be to be broken which is our school funding formula and that was determined that it was broken in 1997 by the ohio supreme court when it determined that the current way of funding schools was unconstitutional and the fact that there has been no consensus in fixing this problem for such a long time is a great disservice to our state the house passed their version of the budget

099which includes the cut patterson school funding plan a plan that took three years to craft the senate then passed their version yesterday and that includes a new school funding plan that took them about three months to craft [Music] both fund charter schools directly which is a good thing so that when a student would leave on tangi and go to a charter school our local funds would not have to be used to offset that cost but that houses plan would take six years to fully implement but once fully implemented olentangy would be receiving over twenty five hundred dollars per pupil that's what we should be getting now if the formula worked but it isn't um the senate's plan caps olentangy's funding and that has been the issue all along is that our funding as we grow

100has been capped and it's been that way since they instituted caps we have all we have always been capped because our student population has grown and they can't afford to fund us at a level that they're funding other school districts so our funding has been capped the most that we've ever gotten is 630 dollars per pupil and that was back in the early 2000s right now it's about 554 per people when uh private schools are getting 1348 dollars per pupil so as a reminder we've been receiving less and state funding for years less and state funding from compared to our peer districts less than state funding compared to our private school districts and there's no end to that in sight now it's um all up in the air as to what what will be happening

101people complain that the local taxes that they pay in the school district are high well they are and that's because we get fewer fewer dollars from the state than the state's average and then our peer districts but we spend less than the state's average district and we spend less in our peer districts but our growth keeps compounding and our state funding never goes up so that's an issue we get less in state funding than all the other peer school districts except for upper arlington and they are landlocked and they're not growing so it's been so hard for us every budget cycle to explain this we explain it and explain it explain it and they just connect they're not comprehending so if a school funding formula has to cap what districts like ours are receiving then

102it's still a broken formula and that's what the senate's version is doing it's still capping the amount of state funding that we should be getting so that i told you in the beginning the house passed their version of the budget the senate passed their version of the budget they do not agree so a conference committee will now be formed it will be made up of three house members and three senate members of which four of those will be republicans and two will be democrats and they'll get in a room and they'll hire they'll hammer out the differences once they come up with a budget whatever the conference committee comes up with the house and senate have to vote on it nobody gets to come in and make any other comments that's what they have to

103vote on and then they vote on it and it goes to the governor's desk he does have a line item veto power where he can lie down and veto things and that's happened to us before and then he will sign the budget and that has to be done by june 30th so i don't have very good news for you on either end because we don't know what the what the answer is yet so i'm just pointing out the process we have about two and a half weeks until we find out what the solution is the senate doesn't like the house's version and i don't know what they're going to come up with and then i also want to remind people that the state also would they could if they wanted to provide us with pandemic

104relief aid that every other school district got and they have not acted on that yet either so our neighboring district dublin is getting 10 million dollars in pandemic relief aid only tangi is getting nothing and so we continue to fight that battle as well i don't know um if anything will come of that troy balderson has worked very hard for us to advocate for that but again um we haven't got an answer no we have not so that is my report sorry it's not cheery but i'm kind of frustrated mr rafe okay coming back all right well hello again so um i think our last meeting was before the 20th the 20th of may so i want to just show you just show you some pictures since you weren't uh able to be at the

105sunset salutes at all four of our high schools um uh it happened on may 21st we got very lucky with very nice weather and and uh i think uh by all accounts uh those ceremonies went went very well people in enjoyed those ceremonies and then we did the commencement walks so uh here's some pictures from berlin high school um if you look look in the background uh that family chose to use a flatbed trailer and had a hayride they probably had about 20 20 people on the flatbed trailer but the other most interesting were the couple families that chose to pull a boat had a boat full of people so those they were seem to be having having fun with it so here's some pictures from from liberty high school and then from orange high

106school or i'm sorry well tangy high school and we put them in the order that they occurred and then um pictures from orange high school and we as a leadership team when we reviewed this determine or the concern the picture of the young man turning his tassel there looking very proud a lot a lot of joy was our favorite so that's what it's all about um you know we did try to have as much end of year um celebrations uh including the fifth grade celebrations throughout the district the principals all had the um autonomy to create events within their buildings so we we tried to have as much normalcy as possible while the covid restrictions were still in place so there's just some pictures from fifth grade celebrations mr o'brien i did remember that uh

107dunk tank i remember the time freedom trail had a dunk tank and my wife went in and you were not nice to her you spent some money you donated some money that night so um and as mr runyon mentioned we did have our groundbreaking ceremony so that that was a lot of fun to do that so we're excited to see middle school six start rising out of um the catter's uh farm so we did an event here monday with collaborated with nationwide children's hospital and coach day who is a district parent he has three children in the district he and his wife have a foundation that is focused on supporting raising awareness for mental health issues and so coach day participated in this parent program teams event and it was one of our most highly

108attended parent programs team events so obviously this is a important issue to continue to raise awareness about um the mental health and well-being of our our students so um i've said to to some people that have emailed me want to know answers for next year already that i give you an update on planning for the 2021 school year so quick review the obviously the health orders are no longer in effect so we are now um thank you thank you i know if that was the plot i think it's a plot for the health order is no longer in effect rather than me but you know i get it yeah i can't hey trust me i'm glad i'm cheering about it too i'm i i'm right with you on that so we're we're very happy that

109the health orders are no longer in effect and that we're gonna um so we are now not requiring staff or students to wear masks to summer uh and the use of face coverings is optional um and the um we will continue to provide ppe upon request um we're gonna continue to do all the routine cleanings and have sand sanitizer available and do all those things that you know we we have the ppe was not something we'd done with like shields or those kind of things but previously but you know the cleaning and sanitizing our custodians and maintenance people their custodians do an outstanding job of cleaning and sanitizing our facilities all the time so you know the districts that close schools to do like deep cleanings on a wednesday it doesn't make sense to me

110because you know we're doing that kind of high level cleaning all the time so but again if right now in in the summer activities if somebody wants something we will have things available upon request so um we are allowing non-essential visitors to back into our facilities here for this uh summer so our visitor procedures are back to normal um students participating in extracurriculars um if they do have um a positive case they do have to report that to their coaches because we still are responsible kovit is still considered a one communicable disease so we do have to report cases and do contract tracing so as i as i noted here the guidance is right now for our summer operations that's where we are and we're constantly we will be monitoring all of the developments but

111um you know again given where we are where i would anticipate will be this will be uh in all likelihood the guidelines will be following in the fall we will you know again unless we're ordered to do something we will obviously have to follow an order that we have to uh if we're ordered to do something where we have options we're going to you know i think analyze all of the potential options the risks and rewards and try to make the best decision possible for for moving forward so you know i sent somebody back an email that asked me a question about next year you know it's my my plan today standing here is that we are normal and somebody wants something would be optional if somebody doesn't want something then we're it's normal operations

112as best as possible obviously if things change dramatically um my hope is that we're we're we're on the back side of this and we have a normal school year full stadiums in the fall watching kids play athletics and all those things [Music] i know that wasn't for me again but [Music] anyway um just a quick list of action items uh you have a long list of um extended surveys service day contracts those are mostly for our guidance counselors and and library media specialists and the deca advisors who do work outside of the school year those are for next school year so days at the beginning of the school year and at the end of the school year to kind of close up shop there are two administrative resignations that i want to highlight mrs stamchesky

113has accepted a position in new albany as a high school assistant principal and mrs heitkamp has accepted a position in big walnut as an elementary school principal and we wish them all the best they're they've just been great uh administrators for us so so we do wish them all the best we do have a administrative hire on the agenda mr shane show formerly district teacher of the year two years ago his wife is actually the best teacher in the family but i won't say that publicly oh i just did mr schoff is going to be the assistant principal at orange middle school stand up say hi welcome we're uh we're very happy very very happy to move him forward um the next thing there you see this is this is a this is a big

114deal um we are um because it is an indication of our our intent to return to normalcy is that we are now approving overnight and student over uh student overnight and out of state trips for the summer and for um next school year so people are planning you know band trips and whatever all the different places our people go all over all over the the uh the country um you see there and uh dr bordage is going to talk about these resources that we're renewing but are st math licensed that are used all throughout our elementary schools newsela and then alex which is another math program and then you see there the construction manager risk um contract with robertson for the middle for middle school six and then um our service agreement with ohio state

115university wexner medical center for student mental health services um i think we are the only district in the state i would venture to say that provides a full-time certified mental health counselor at all of our high schools and we then use the resources we have we previously have provided to provide mental health support at the middle school and elementary building so obviously the the people that are at our ohio state employees but they're in our high schools every single day now you know obviously we brought them online um last year about it was actually two years ago in in around december and then closed down for the pandemic and that we were in you know the hybrid model and it's been difficult to get them up they have been working all throughout the two years

116that we've had the agreement with ohio state but i think again as we return to a more normal environment they will be the goal is to make sure they're seen as fully uh integrated as part of the staff at each of the high schools so that kids who need that assistance and the other the other really important part of of that agreement with ohio state is that we do have direct access for bed bed space for kids in crisis and that that is really important because um you could end up weeks out with a kid in crisis trying to get bed space so um finally a couple important dates this is important for the community to know that the uh power school dates will be power school will be unavailable from june 21st through august

11711th and then we'll reopen the portal on august 12th so i say that publicly because typically around august 10th before we reopen it some high school kid finds a way to get in and find out all their schedules ahead of time and we still haven't figured out uh i'm putting the technology team on notice this is the year dr fetty this is the year [Laughter] somebody and it doesn't get hacked somebody in technology throws a switch somewhere that ends up putting it on open for like a minute and 2 000 parents yes yes thank you thank you for that but and then obviously our next board of education meeting is um june 24th so um with that take any questions from the board i i um participated in the virtual presentation with coach jay and

118dr houston on monday and one thing that dr houston said was that he doesn't call it falling down when you know somebody just has a horrible something horrible happened to him he calls it falling up because he wants whoever fell down to fall up and learn from what happened to them and i thought that was a really powerful way to look at it but i appreciated that presentation very much so thank you next mrs hatfield the numbers lady i'm kidding it's actually state budget documents just for support purposes i promise i won't read it all yeah that's it i had i didn't print off all 157 that related to the school funding formula i just looked at them on my computer yeah massively frustrating but we'll we'll get to some good things first and then

119we'll go back to the state funding update so i want to talk about our estimated fiscal year in transfer for general fund as we remember from mrs lanko's presentation we talked quite in depth about the food service fund and what's happened with the food service fund throughout the pandemic and why there was a transfer done for fiscal year 20. so for those in the audience that may not remember we are on a fiscal year that ends june 30th of each year and so it follows the academic year but begins in july and then closes the following june last fiscal year we made a transfer of 1.5 million dollars with the board's approval in the five-year forecast we have approximately 4.2 million dollars reserved or estimated for transfers what we were looking at at that time

120was the food service fund with actual costs through i believe january to february we were also looking at our athletic funds as well because of course they were also in the same position as to not have full revenue streams um as the food service did so where are we today we have closed the may books so all of that information is compiled we have actuals through may and i'm very happy to share that our estimation is going to go down to 1.4 to 1.5 million dollars we still have a month of actuals that we would like to get some more data just to make sure that our numbers and estimations are going to come to this but what has changed part of what's in that 4.2 million is 300 000 that's operating contingency if you

121remember the five-year forecast you'll see the 300 000 in each of the following years for fiscal years 23 4 and 5. so that's part of it is a contingency should we need it if we don't need it it just goes back into the general fund balance and carries forward to the next year um today we have not had to use that um i don't believe that i've had a year being with the treasurer's department where we've had to dip into that contingency but it is a safeguard that we keep in place for operating needs and then looking at mrs lanko's information bringing the students back into a full attendance model has extremely helped their department and being able to have revenue so we are estimating that 1.4 to 1.5 million dollars is what they will

122need we've also taken a look at our athletic funds our athletic funds do have carry forward cash balances from the previous year and so at this time we do not feel that we will recommend a transfer to the athletic funds we think that they will be able to use their prior fund balances and as a whole that athletic fund or 300 fund will be in the black and meet our auditing standards if they come in under their budget so again we think we're in much better shape than we had anticipated when we put those fiscal records together um two or three months ago so that's exciting to share our e-finance plus conversion we are in the currently going through the employment employee demographic portion of that as you may remember we are switching to a

123new fiscal software that fiscal software also will integrate with our human resources database so we have separate pieces of software currently the state software that we are using for our fiscal functions so our budgetary and our payroll side will actually be sunset or retired so to speak december of 2022 the state will no longer support it when we took a look at and analyzed our options we could go with a redesign of what's currently being out there which basically just made a web interface overlay for the current software or we could select a different product e-finance plus we chose e-finance plus because it will integrate with our human resources database and we will no longer need two pieces of software to do the same functionality e-finance plus will also give us the opportunity to come

124into the 21st century we will have electronic workflows and models and approvals going forward so it will help maintain our fiscal efficiency as well as provide a part of our strategic plan to become to bring forward digital solutions for both departments so we will continue to work on that through the summer we are on target to meet our october go live date at this time so excited to keep continue to work with our human resources department to collaborate and make sure that we've got all the data up to date and ready to go for that system i wanted to take a moment to tell i know i have to pause mrs katie bowser will be retiring from the district she is our secretary executive secretary for the treasurer's department she is our rock in our

125department i know i get a little choked up um but she will be retiring as of july 31st we are excited for her in the next chapter of her life and will deeply miss her we do have her replacement on the agenda to transfer mrs tammy riley from our payroll supervisor to this executive position for our department and have posted a payroll slot slot or position which tammy held so a little bit of transition but excited to keep those to keep tammy with us in her tenure with the district she's been a great asset to our team and won't be leaving us with this transfer so we're excited about that another good metric to share with the community we have been awarded a stars rating of four from the auditor of state this is a

126new made excuse me rating metric that the auditor of state has created for fiscal year 20 records so this would be last fiscal year so each year we are audited by the auditor of state they come in and take a look at all of our financial records and our federal dollars and make sure that we are compliant with all of those regulations this new accreditation that they are offering is in response to our handling of public records requests so by law we follow the ohio sunshine laws those laws are related to open and transparent government so when we have a public records request and either comes into the communications department or myself and we work together to make sure that we are sharing the information the requester has asked for to the best of our

127ability it's gauging our quick response it's gauging our documentation of response how quickly and timely are we are with getting those records turned around and so forth this four star rating is the highest rating a government agency can have so i'm very excited to say that we achieved that new rating to the highest level possible right out of the gate and quite frankly we were doing most of those steps prior to when the auditor state put this in place we had changed and enhanced our process a little bit in 2017 but have been meeting those metrics based on olin tng following best practices regardless of the auditor of state's approval so great news to share and now for the state budget [Music] so as mrs feasel discussed the budget is in kind of up in

128the air we have been supporting and working for support of the fair school funding plan for those who may or may not know about that that is a fair model that has been brought forward through practitioners that are practicing in economics treasurers superintendents educators as well as bipartisan legislation to put forward a new model that gives creates a base cost for funding the education of a typical student and then adds component supports for things such as special education transportation gifted etcetera and why that's so important for us to support this model or why i feel it's extremely important to support the model is because that model creates a new base a new way for me to forecast what is coming in the next biennium budgets it's changing the law and the funding model so that

129we have stability and understand what's going to be next for the district i apologize this is a little small to read i think this side screen might be a little clearer but what we are looking at is a snapshot of an estimation using our forecasting software of what house bill 110 looks like as the house introduced it it's taking a look at funding students where they are enrolled it's taking a look at adding additional pieces for those units that we talked about and so the current estimation for that is approximately 13.192 million dollars looking at it from the same funding report format that we get today and this is what the sentence version looks like you'll notice that the bottom line is 11.2 million dollars roughly 2 million dollars less than the house bill 110

130version as introduced and passed by the house there is a lot of back and forth currently in the senate in the house about you're not including this well you're funding it at that you're including old wage analysis you're you know lots of back and forth the kind of point in the finger about why the house the fair school funding plan isn't sufficient or working and the senate plan is better in looking at this in an apples to apples comparison it's not it just simply is not the fair school funding plan does have an estimated six-year implementation i know that that has been another component that the senate likes to poke at but quite frankly it's changing the law and the formula in the law and it becomes the new standard what the senate is doing

131is putting a band-aid on pieces and component parts of a formula that doesn't work it just simply doesn't work about 83 percent of the school districts on the current formula funding are either on a guarantee or a cap they're just not getting they're either getting guaranteed money for students they no longer have or they're capped like we are and are growing so fast they don't get fully funded it just doesn't work and so this is this is the frustration that we're dealing with is trying to educate and understand why the senate is not in support of a formula correction that has been three and a half to four years in the making um in terms of next steps for those that might be with us in the audience you know please educate yourself on this

132item there is a lot of material available online the senate and the house will publish their bills and will publish support documents you're more than welcome to go get that if you would like but that's our analysis on what's coming out of the legislation at this time so we have a couple more weeks to go and we'll see where we land are there questions that i can answer for you i know it's depressing ending i'm sorry um you know hopefully in that bipartisan conference committee they'll be able you know there's going to be a negotiation process hopefully they'll be able to pick the components that are helpful and functional and put that together for the governor there is still an opportunity to lobby for that and so again if you would like materials or anybody

133in the community would like materials please let me know and i can point you into the direction of where you can find that research material okay all right thank you we'll let you get in your seat because you have the next part too for public participation i'm sorry i'm going to take a quick drink yeah okay and for public participation you're going to read them in the order that they were received yes so for public participation the board has a policy that gives us guidelines for public participation and how that takes place just to give the audience a few tips the participate must be recognized by the presiding officer when we call your name we would ask you to come to the podium and we request that you state your name address and or group

134affiliation if it's appropriate for the record so we know who has made the comment each statement made by the participant shall be limited to five minutes duration unless extended by the presiding officer all statements shall be directed to the presiding officer or the board no person may address or question board members individually so we have the public participation items or requests here i'm just going to go from the top down the first person who submitted one was miss amanda clark if you are with us would you please take the podium and state your name and address for the record good evening my name is amanda clark my address is 3215 mark cliff drive lewis center ohio and i am a parent um good evening i appreciate the opportunity to speak with you today in person

135i have been a nurse for nearly two decades my experience in medical knowledge has been beneficial in understanding the manipulation that is occurring with regards to covid mask mandates and the gene modification experimental drug they are calling a vaccine i stand here today to be the voice for our children the same children that you were elected to protect our children are being forced to carry the burdens of decisions based on emotion not facts let me begin with stating that in the beginning of the so-called pandemic i too was fearful at that time none of us understood how this virus would impact our lives i had to make the difficult decision of continuing a career that while possibly placing my family at risk that fear motivated me to do my own research today i stand before

136you as an educated mother not that not only understands the hard truths but one that is not going to sit back quietly and allow bureaucrats to make unlawful decisions that are harmful to our children i don't want to hear we are listening to the experts because if you think dr fauci the cdc or most of those making these ludicrous recommendations are being truthful then i encourage you to educate yourselves we did not vote for the elected officials of the cdc we voted for you we elected you to make these difficult decisions for our children our children are suffering in the hands of the people we trusted to care for them i have met with mr rafe regarding these concerns previously and continue to meet with stakeholders today not one person has taken the time to

137actually listen to the actual science behind why masks are not only ineffective in protecting you but are actually harming our children physically psychologically and scholastically if you turn off the mainstream media and listen to the hundreds of experts that are brave enough to come forward with scientific facts it would be impossible for you to justify masking our children mr rafe has been provided a video that will undoubtedly prove neither cloth nor surgical masks are effective in providing protection against any virus this video includes education from an industrial hygienist ppe expert and provides just one example on how to successfully and safely keep schools open without masks unfortunately censorship and propaganda have been highly successful in brainwashing people into thinking masks protect them many parents think their children don't mind wearing them i challenge those parents

138to ask their children i encourage them to become educated on the science not the manipulated not the manipulated and falsely elevated statistics used to continue fear mongering and division i think the most effective way to help lessen fear for those who truly believe that mass save lives is to offer them education why is this education not important to any of you why does there appear to be a complete lack of concern related to the mental and physical health of our children your decisions have destroyed a year of our children's lives with many of them likely to have lifelong side effects mentally physically and scholastically for not holding an in-person graduation to the obvious support of crt despite your continued denial to rebranding our schools without support of the community and doing so with what i

139suspect hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars this community demands answers and none of you are taking responsibility for these decisions and in many cases are lying to the people that pay your salaries the truth comes to light and until you show the people of this community some respect and honesty you will not have my support as a nurse i understand the detrimental effects hypoxia has on the body it is a fact that once you are deprived of oxygen your body's environment becomes acidic cancer cells viruses and bacteria thrive in such environments hopefully some of you have been informed about all the controversies dr fraud fought he is finding himself in from lying to the public about his involvement with wuhan and funding gain of function research to knowing that hydroxychloroquine was an effective treatment

140to this virus to having emails stating that mass do not protect you whether you want to believe it or not we have been deceived manipulated and imprisoned for political gain and global warfare one's ego is a barrier to acceptance but that should never influence decisions to be based on opinion fear and misinformation none of these decisions have been based on scientific facts you all have the authority to make positive changes and stop the continued division of our community masks should be optional as it is a parent's right to make these decisions it is our right to weigh the risks of this virus which in children there are none and they've induced by wearing a mask children have never been spreaders of covet and teachers are highly unlikely to be infected by their students in conclusion

141i would like to express how deeply disheartened i am to see our schools support an experimental drug it was the first mrna vaccine to be released despite decades of failed research there have already been more deaths from this job than all previous vaccines combined these deaths are not the elderly or immune compromise or those with multiple comorbidities as seen in those who have died from covid this jab is killing the healthy and the young hundreds of teenagers are suffering myocarditis which will affect their heart health for a lifetime this job is far from safe and supporting this in our children only highlights the lack of concern you have about the health and future of our children thank you [Applause] next we have miss christy hoyt please miss white if you would please state your name

142and address for the record hi there my name is christy white um i'm a resident powell i'm going to keep my my dress is on record um good evening my name is christy hoyt i live in powell and i have two children in the olin tang school district i'm one of many concerned parents in the school district who are frustrated with our diminishing influence in our children's education over the past couple of years after experiencing a string of quite concerning incidents my eyes have been opened to what is actually going on both inside and outside our classrooms some are from personal experiences and some are from shared testimonials from parents students and teachers equal opportunity for all judging people by the content of their character not the color of their skin diversity of thought experience

143and perspective these are all principles all americans in ohio and should live by and teach our children unfortunately what is happening within the olympia school district threatens those principles in the last board meeting president president's address mrs feasel rejected the claim that our school district has adopted critical race theory isn't it possible that is already in use in olin tangy because the board has not been trained on what crt is and how often it presents itself under the guise of other seemingly feel-good phrasings when in reality it's toxic and divisive often those using crt don't even realize that the materials that they are using are based on crt framework perhaps it has not been formally adopted but supporters of crt often hide behind this claim because it isn't part of a curriculum or a formal

144class that you take like physics 101 but as another concerned parent from virginia recently said quote crt is a broad lens that is implemented through how our teachers are trained how those are how those trained teachers teach our children which is to view america view our institutions to view our culture traditions and language all based on systemic racism here are the remarks by two district teachers quote the professional day in september was supposed to be centered on developing a sense of belonging in students and staff and many other staff members left that day feeling completely defeated i for the first time in my years at olin tangi felt like i didn't belong in the district the day was focused on a crt agenda which goes against my personal values and beliefs i was truly devastated

145and so were my colleagues end quote another district teacher said we didn't take the training seriously or reflect on it at all because it was designed to make us feel guilt i was hired to educate students i'm not qualified to talk to people's kids about microaggressions i don't have a degree in that the hour of training didn't make me feel qualified to have those awful discussions with kids end quote there is evidence of classroom bias resulting in viewpoint discrimination class projects are graded according to teachers viewpoints students who disagree with teachers are often ridiculed mocked and treated as outcasts by other students excuse me here is an excerpt from an olentangy student comment on their experience quote my english teacher likes to teach us through blm suppression and human rights she handed out blm coloring

146sheets as everyone understands where her views are at she teaches all left policies she is a good person but not for what she teaches and how she does it nobody wants someone to lose their job but she is not fit to teach in the society kids should not kids should develop their own beliefs and see what works and doesn't all left policies being taught and preached can be looked look past since we're mature but we haven't learned a single thing end quote another student's experience quote when i was at hyatt's i remember a student teacher who was telling us that communism can be a great thing and that dictators like stalin and mao zedong had the right ideas but just didn't but just didn't execute them right there are more than just a few of

147these instances and we believe the board the school administrators and the community at large need to hear what is actually happening in our community in our schools did you know that there have been talks of a mandatory diversity class before graduation did you know that there has been talk of eliminating advanced placement courses did you know there are nine-year-olds that had to make protest posters that was my daughter and twelve-year-olds that had a group project on suicide as the result of bullying my son did you know that there are teachers who turn off the pledge of allegiance in the classroom did you know that this school district endorses brainpop as an online class resource for our youngest children and i will read you one quote from hundreds of videos coming into our homes quote structural

148racism in our society a built-in system of bias that makes life easier for white people and more difficult for black people and other people of color end quote did you know that specific hate political groups messagings are allowed if not encouraged in the school hallways classrooms and on t-shirts masks and flags sometimes worn in the classroom by teachers themselves we have been told by a senior olentangy administrator board policy 2240 addresses controversial issues in the classroom quote the board recognizes that there is a time and place when controversial issues are appropriate teachers should communicate with their principal and their parents if controversial issues will be discussed in class end quote this has not happened can anyone on the board tell us why board policy 2240 is not being enforced because no one is communicating with

149any of us over these controversial issues thank you for your time and we will see you at the next board meeting i'm asking for the next public participant please marine botox thank you you realize you folks work for us right now i thought you guys said i'm sorry it's the next person's turn they want to get through everybody be respectful of the next person my name is maureen bodis i'm my address is 4737 sabell court in powell ohio my family and i moved to olentangy school district last year in our short time in this district i have found some rather confusing and concerning items i'm here to inform the community and some of you because you might not know some of the disturbing items i found and i decided i wanted to get involved with

150this district so on november 16 2020 i attended a diversity committee virtual meeting to see how i as a parent could support this district in their efforts to be more inclusive this meeting was very disturbing and made me question what the school district actually values their students or some utopian isle deal society this got me more interested in what their actual goals were so i went to the olympia website and i found the olympia schools equity and inclusion action plan this is on the actual website underneath the curriculum and instruction and under the equity and inclusion part so anybody can go and actually look this up i suggest everybody go and look it up so this is a plan that you guys approved in december of 2020 according to jackie merkel at a previous board

151meeting so i'm going to go through the action plan and actually point out some of my major concerns when i looked at it so first part is measurement and accountability goal 1 says select an external consultant to conduct a comprehensive audit of our existing equity and inclusion practices then it lists five practices isn't this what the equity and inclusion department should be doing already why do you need an outside counsel to come in and consultant to figure this out policy and handbook next page [Music] goal number one add language [Music] this is one the one that really upset me add language into the student handbook and staff handbook that explicitly lays out and i quote restorative education sessions as part of the disciplinary process for students and staff disciplined for diversity related incidents when i

152asked somebody in the community what they thought restorative education sessions meant to them they said gulags this at the virtual meeting this is what really got me sparked is because at the virtual meeting one of the diversity or equity and inclusion um administrators said that they had already conducted eight of these restorative education sessions with students in september of 2020. so i didn't see this policy in our handbook anywhere and i'm trying to figure out how this group could already be having these restorative education sessions with students when there's not even a place for the parents to know that they're existing i'm that one really upset me so next is our recruitment and retention goal number one is ensure all staff and administrators involved in the hiring process receive research-based implicit bias training implicit bias

153is a crt buzzword so there's no reason for that to be going on in our schools goal number three review and update our district recruitment and retention plan annually with the goal of hiring a workforce that is more accurately reflection reflects our student population so i was curious what is our actual student population demographics and what does it reflect so according to the ohio school report cards on the ohio.gov website our district is made up of 70.4 white non-hispanic 15 percent asian or pacific islander 6 multiracial 4.3 black non-hispanic 3.9 percent hispanic and 0.3 american indian or alaskan native i couldn't find data on what our actual diversity of our teachers and staff is in olympia but i'm assuming the focus needs to be putting it more on getting more asian or pacific islanders in

154our schools but our goal number seven is to foster relationships with faculty at neighboring hbcus so historically black black colleges and also colleges and universities in the midwest region with a higher number of bypoc students in their education program how about we continue to hire people that are most qualified to teach our children instead of instead of focusing on the race i don't care what the color of my child's teacher is the district's emphasis on the portrait of a learner is purposeful resilient curious and kind nowhere do you mention race why can't we expect the same emphasis when hiring teachers and staff for the district training and education is the next part their goal is implement mandatory oh it's five minutes okay thank you thank you so much hopefully you guys actually look at what

155you approved okay miss sarah naragana did i pronounce that correctly i'm sorry i'm sorry could you say that for me thank you i'm sorry um if you could please state your name and address for the record please my name is sarah narayana and i live in the walker estates of walker woods um uh thanks um this past year has been really hard for so many reasons and my message is just about thanks and gratitude the diversity equity inclusion efforts are a huge step in this community efforts because with about 46 languages spoken in olin tangi in this district having an attentional effort to fully include all is amazing whiteness is every day it's the norm it's the default it's the tradition and as a parent and a community member i appreciated the four heritage months

156that were brought forth to not to educate not only our kids but parents like myself who are choosing to excuse me who are choosing to learn something new the other step in the right direction was who was invited to speak at the one community conferences healing through one community for those who didn't participate or didn't care to join it was really a great experience the mlk service day i hope comes back again we so many of us uh us personally this group of women and i we did natural hair kids for the community and we got at least one month's supply for that center and we learned a lot about black women black girls and their hair which we didn't know before we really appreciated the african american read because we got to hear different

157stories from different authors the dirt district service plunge i went to the family promise the home in delaware where they serve homeless or transitioning people back on their feet again amazing student speakers who talked about being in whatever position they are in whether it's they're transitioning from a he to a she whether they were attacked or targeted for being a non-white person and the last person that i felt was really important was dr goldie mohammed excuse me and the sad part about this amazing woman who i hope comes back is that people in our community trashed her and she had to call them out that part was pathetic because that it represents all of us these are ways these are ways you all have purposely and actively worked on doing better and seeing who is

158not at the table there is so much privilege in this community in terms of our social economic positions which allows uh i'm not interrupting you just let her talk please i was not interrupting you sarah can continue thank you because i came up in a poor place this is a very privileged economically social economic area and it's a blessing okay but you know we can either look at this situation in two ways gratefulness and try to move in truth or have community members who look at it at what others owe them or should give them because it's us you work for well thank you because i want to move in truth and gratefulness and i appreciate everything from a really hard covered year [Applause] our next public participation is from miss holly hansen ms hanson

159would you please take the podium and state your address for the record hi i'm holly hansen i live at 7661 lydia drive and lewis center hi i have two daughters one who just graduated and one's going to be a junior they're both old and tangy lifers as we moved here about 16 years ago i'm here to make three points the first is to tell you how much i enjoy the orange drive-thru graduation and sunset salute the parents organized a senior car parade that ended up with more than 250 seniors participating in the entire community coming out to cheer them on as they drove by it was such a heartwarming event to behold the sunset salute was beautiful in just the right length an hour and a half um as for the drive-through ceremony my senior

160was thrilled to be able to get out of the car all along the route and hug and take pictures with her teachers and coaches it will certainly be more memorable than a stuffy three-hour long ceremony and a huge building that has nothing to do with oil and tangy so i thank you for that secondly i want to thank you for all the opportunities that are afforded our kids throughout their journey at old and tangi i am so very grateful for the privilege that i have to be able to live in this district my graduate took advantage of every program and class needed to get her to the place that she is today leadership opportunities abound at our middle and high schools advanced classes extracurricular sports the arts and more she loved doing the news and

161calling games with the juice with state-of-the-art production facilities at their fingertips she learned public speaking and leadership skills from the model united nations group i can go on and on she will attend emory university atlanta and has received numerous scholarships from her work at olin tangi and in the community so i thank you for that finally i want to thank you all for providing mental health support for our children the partnership with osu has been a blessing for my family and for many others in olin tangi i do not think many parents know how fortunate they are for the privilege of having these benefits at their behalf and with so many kids anxiously returning to full-time school olin tangi has provided a life-saving support system within the district and there is nothing more important than

162that so i thank you most of all for that [Music] i believe we have time for maybe one more um if i'm reading the handwriting correctly forgive me i believe it's angela pigman am i pronouncing the last name correctly thank you ma'am sorry about that if you would please state your name and address for the record my name is angela pigman i live in 9010 emerald hill drive i thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today i know that this topic is probably not going to be very popular based on some of the previous commentary today we're here because um we want to talk about masking for elementary school kids we know that this is not popular the numbers for kovit are decreasing and that's that's very promising but we knew from last

163year that things can change very quickly from in the span of a couple of months we know that there's a lot of global coveted infections and the uh the possibility for variants that could become more infectious is is still something that could happen um you know the semen was made the code does not in fact chill or does not impact children i don't think that's quite true according to the cedc there is an misc uh inflammation syndrome that happens in some kids with kovid there were 4 000 cases uh there was a thousand up until october of last year and then from february to june this year despite the decreasing coven numbers um there's actually been 3 000 of those so there's no reason to expect that those numbers are in it going to decrease

164despite the fact that kevin numbers overall are decreasing i sincerely hope that by the time we get to school that we'll have enough immunity that this won't even need to be a topic but until until we have a chance for kids in elementary school to get vaccinated and for parents better let her continue and for parents to be able to choose what's best for their child then we should not have the opportunity to take that right away from parents by not asking there are high-risk kids in the district who if they got coveted could be negatively impacted the misc numbers don't include the other kids that have other risk factors kids are required to go to school by law they don't have the parents don't have an option to choose for their child what is

165best for them over the course of the summer we can choose not to take my nephew to the store we can choose to mask when we're out but when they go to school and everyone around him is not masked we have no options we're told that teachers are not being asked for their vaccination status it would be nice if we had an opportunity for parents who are concerned to request a teacher for their child who's vaccinated so um you know i understand that people feel strongly about this you know but i don't think that it's right for others to have the choice to decide what's right for our families our children my nephew deserves to have the opportunity to be safe in school on the other front i did not plan to speak about this

166today but hearing some of the other commentary i felt the need to respond to it when i was at work we were in in uh diversity sessions and we heard some heartbreaking stories from online tng parents with kids who were minorities and they were harassed they have been by resource officers by staff they were harassed by their peers i i had a lady who said that she wanted to move in total intention she was told by a realtor that her kind wasn't welcome here so when the national average is fifteen percent minorities and only tangies uh black group is four point three percent you have to ask yourself why that is you know so i i think that really the the some of the responses we've seen here today is a demonstration of the implicit

167bias that we have here so you know i think that there is some value in continuing to try to ensure that these minority students have got an opportunity to go to a staff member that is potentially like them and that they can maybe trust more i think that there are plenty of minority qualified teachers there's no reason to believe that hiring a minority person would result in less quality in her school anyway thank you i appreciate the time how are we on time every time that was a half hour session with those that um came to the podium to speak i'm sorry so that would conclude our public participation for this meeting okay yes that was 30 minutes okay in total all right next we have two discussion items we have to we have to

168continue on with the business to the people that submitted tonight that didn't get to speak that's all i'm asking yeah is that is there a process for that when they get speak yeah because we did have we did post all of the the emails that we received during public participation if they want to submit them we can go ahead and read them and and post them online still if you want to for those three yeah or they could speak or typically folks come in and resubmit because we don't know if if the ones that are in my are here will be back but you're welcome to come back and submit a form um on the way in as you come in absolutely thank you okay next we have christian bourgeois borjaj our curriculum supervisor to

169talk about the math and english resources proposal of three resources that we would like to renew for the students and teachers at the district the first one is middle school math and it is a supplemental resource called alex which stands for assessment and learning in knowledge spaces and the idea of this is that it supports uh instruction for all learners in that the program specifically is adaptive which means it provides just right instruction for an individual who is using the resource this one is strictly digital i quite like alex i conducted a study on internal study of its effects on math achievement and it did very well our students who use the resource routinely in the class achieve outside of the resource they achieve in in other measures so that was really positive i also

170talk to a lot of teachers and their perceptions of the tools very positive as well they see it as a a stop gap it supports students with shoring up whatever is missing or extending their knowledge beyond what's going on in the classroom at a given time the total cost is there and we're hopeful that we can provide teachers with additional professional development in the area of using the assessment features of the tool which are also very positive for our students as well as our teachers using those data to guide instruction i just have a quick question on that so if it's supplemental is it to catch students up or is it maybe for students who are enriched going beyond yeah in all ways so it does provide support for students who who need to catch

171up and it also extends students uh where they are where the classroom is they can continue within the resource with gaining more ground so it really reaches all students high quality resource for its adaptability the second resource is also math this is for primarily k-5 although we have some middle schools using the resource it's game-based it capitalizes on visual learning so it removes the literacy skill need and focuses strictly on mathematics this too has adaptive features which we quite like for teachers and students because it provides that just right instruction so it's attending to how students are performing and and the system is providing those questions that'll that'll provide that you know next step not too far not not too little but that what i call just right and the cost is there for a

172one-year subscription and the third resource is our i believe our only k-12 resource it's referred to as newsela it's primarily for language arts we're proposing a three-year renewal we are at the end of a five-year license and as i mentioned it's primarily for english language arts and this is a wonderful database of constantly updated texts and other resources for teachers so the strength of this resource is in the um updating and the con you know always making uh a fresh resource for teachers a fresh uh comprehension a set of comprehension questions quizzes and so forth and so that's that's the strength of this resource is that it really is always fresh the recent extensions with this renewal will cover a lot of curriculum ground in my opinion so there are enhancements within newsela to include

173social studies social social emotional learning and science they are all ohio standards line all of the resources within this resource and it's again it's going to support a lot of teachers and a lot of students in our core classes as well as our guidance programs those guidance or school counselors rather who work in classrooms teaching will be able to draw on the social emotional resources that will be provided in this updated version that we're proposing any other questions if i may i believe this tool can be it's a k-12 tool but it can be adjusted for the grade levels that correct so that it's a first-grader isn't getting 12th grade material yeah it's not quite like the other resources that have the adaptable uh adaptive technology rather but the term is leveled so the text

174can be leveled for the again the student the individual student um so a class of 25 students could be reading a text at you know 25 levels conceivably um so there's a lot of strength in that for teaching and learning thank you for cleaning that okay thank you thank you next we have the berlin business park and the ravines at ridge meadows tiffs and i don't see bob lamb is he gone is bob gone no mr lamb's last day with the county will be tuesday okay so as you can imagine he's trying to balance some final transition type meetings including one this evening so we had hoped he could be here but you you only get me this evening so my name is rob platt i'm the economic development administrator for delaware county i'm happy

175to be there here this evening and i certainly thank you all for your time i will try to be brief as i know you have a full agenda um and do i have is this that's okay okay yeah so um basically what we have here is uh you're probably aware our office um the economic development office for the county has been working with the berlin township trustees and the residents in that area for nearly two acres now or i'm sorry two years now on about a two 000 acre development project which is very large for this for central ohio it was certainly a major undertaking for our office and zoning and was finally approved as overlay zoning in december and of last year in january of this year so that being the case that project

176is moving forward so both of these items are related to that they both were kind of combined due to a developer wanting to move forward with one specific project specifically a 60 acre project that will be annexing into the village of sunbury there was a need for us to split them out into two separate tif requests before you so that's what you have this evening these are 20 years 75 percent tiffs so um we are asking two things of the school board tonight first for you to waive the required notice period of 45 days for these tiffs again this is um uh kind of an expedited request based on the development moving forward in the statutory window for the property that's going to annex into sunbury so we're kind of at a critical period here

177of making sure that we get all these things in place before that happens and again these are 20 or 75 percent tiff requests i'll start with the ravines at meadow ridge uh this is the developer is looking at this parcel these three parcels totaling about i believe 61 acres maybe i think i've got that on the next slide right this is right at uh three b's and k road south of 3637 in berlin township right at the berlin berkshire berkshire township line there what is being proposed as a total of 33 structures you see the data there on it for 792 total units with a market value in the end of 99 million dollars this is gross acreage of just over 66 acres net developable of 41. the reason for the significant reduction is because

178of the interchange project that i'll be talking about here in a minute specific to that i call out here the ravines at meadow ridge on the left side of the picture again this is right at the township line and you'll see the interchange plan this has not changed from what we've had for probably five or six years now from odot uh in this in the new road going up through there to hook up to 3637 so again that's why the growths and net acreage there's such a significant difference there but at any rate this is the parcels these are the parcels for the ravines i want to call out from the enter from the interstate 71 to the west is what we're calling phase one of this project the tiff request for this and i

179believe as we go through so here's a site layout i wanted to give you but you kind of see the new road coming up through there and kind of what that's going to look like this one specifically we have a site plan the total berlin business park it's too early to have those plans in place right now but i will get to that um the uh i guess the estimates that we're we're coming up with and this is after meeting with mr rafe and mr o'brien and miss hatfield um it looks to be again this is these are estimates based on the number of units and what we're seeing here in the district it looks over the course of it 143 new students being generated and then you see annual and 20-year costs the 20-year

180obviously being the tiff uh life of the tiff when then that would roll off and everything would go back to full full of money being sent out so what is important here is is the amount and the tif revenues the amount to the schools the cost of students basically those last four boxes the reason it's important is because as we start with the first one 43.8 million dollars is the estimate for the 20-year life of the tif the portion that would be set aside for the infrastructure that is being 100 percent sent to the interchange improvements so the interchange as i said has been kind of a discussion for a number of years now and to be quite honest there's just not been a solution to to get the funding off the ground odot has

181about 10 million dollars in track funding slated for it that has not changed but what has changed is there there is new development interest in these areas now uh the county engineers office has stepped up and offered to take care of the engineering costs for this so they're going to cover that out of their budget so that is going to kick start the interchange we need this 43.8 million dollars to be quite honest to get the project going to get that phase one uh from 71 headed to the west to hook into that 3637 piece so that's the money that would be generated i do want to be very clear and up front the ncaa school district revenues we call out there the ncaa is not a function of the county in this case this

182would be the village so this this is what was presented by the developer to us as potential additional revenue to the school district that is something that you all would need to follow up with the district and i know mr rafe is aware of that and we're certainly help happy to help with that but i i guess i want to be clear as i can't from a county's perspective perspective guarantee you that money but it is being discussed as being available so be aware of that as revenue to the district can you go back sure so the revenue is like 14 million 14.6 million that you're estimating yes but the cost to educate the students is 37.1 yes million so if you throw in the extra 5.1 million you're at like 19 million dollars that

183we would be that would be coming into the district maybe 20 million that's correct you get we we're able to get about half of the cost of the students uh covered through doing this um and i'll bring this all together in a summary in the end because this is recall a 60 acre piece of a 2 000 acre development so but yes that is with that that's showing honestly we try to make it the school district as whole as possible when we look at these projects and try to look at as many different revenue mechanisms as possible in this case we need the tif revenues for the infrastructure so we're trying to make that find that balance to get the revenues in place um and then also make the uh the interchange possible so there

184is a deficit there but you'll see in the end kind of where what our mindset was coming through that also i just want to point out this is based on our apartment enrollment which is lower than our single family home enrollment so if we were looking at that's an important point because the alternative is you take this 100 acres you put single family homes with a three yield on them versus 700 apartments with a 0.18 yield the number of students goes up dramatically in the single family homes and your costs to cover that gap just grows exponentially yeah that's a great point and and the overall uh tax revenues property tax revenues are higher on the commercial development for commercial residential as opposed to a single family so um and i'll get to that as

185well on here but when we i guess i should take a step back when we embarked on this berlin business park concept and again this these acres are part of that it's just been separated out um it was a kind of a multi-factor approach ways to looking at ways to find revenues from the from commercial development as opposed to single family at that lower rate what is the impact of the schools what is the what can we do to take 2 000 acres reposition it from what could be all single family and new kids of the district versus commercial development that's going to spin off a higher tax base so that's that's uh well the mindset that we went with this week a comment i like it too is what would we what would it

186be like here if they were single families yeah homes you never let me finish i always read your mind what would it be like here if polaris were all single family homes because it was the same argument you know any opposition to polaris was was the same kind of uh issue so yeah yeah that's exactly it and i do have that in one of my slides here the um the berlin business park i told you we started with a 2 000 acre concept as we moved through the zoning we did have a property owner take out a couple parcels they they wanted to embark on something different and that's certainly that's their option this 1790 acres is what we ended up with at the end of the zoning and does include in that number the

18760 166 acres we're all we're talking about the ravines so it's still lumped together but the important thing is um by and large all that land is his own frag and single family so we're talking about what what could it develop as and what what uh what is the net effect if we um reposition the land for commercial and light industrial type uses which is what we've done through these overlays so this is the area we're talking again talking about it's the eastern edge of the city of delaware out to the township line at berkshire this is the final berlin business park approved development plan there's a few things i want to point out because it's important um that we know in in this in the right side there the eastern part and that kind

188of dark orange area that includes those three parcels for the ravines right so that that again was in that map when it was approved for zoning the um yellowish areas are a lower density like a condo type product at four units um with uh multifamily at ten ten units the reason that is in there by and large is the trustees and the existing residents i wanted to protect the existing single-family residences along curve road up but baker there but dunham road i believe it was no dunhams on the south i forget the one on the north but at any rate anywhere there was a single family existing residence they wanted some sort of buffer and didn't just want to light industrial use up against it which which makes sense right but another thing i want

189to point out is this blue area in the middle is a mixed use product so you might end up with a commercial residential use on the second or third story but the zoning is is geared towards a retail commercial type first floor product really it was kind of a neat thing in this middle peninsula area and i hope it develops this way uh because they were trying to do the um uh commercial the like the uh starbucks type product right on the bottom and a in a um a restaurant that on the second floor then could have outdoors outdoor dining right so rooftop dining and things like that the residents were heavily involved in the architectural standards of what went into this and so they were brainstorming some some things to try to get in

190there so i thought it was pretty cool but probably most importantly in this is this purple area it's uh it's slated as industrial light industrial on the map the way we did this is it kind of builds so you have professional research and office type uses in the light blue turquoise kind of areas but those uses are included in that purple area so when you look at this map you first think well that's going to be 543 acres of light industrial well that's not really necessarily the case it could be but it could also continue the professional research office type uses up through there which have a higher valuation thus generating higher property taxes so there's we kind of put that in there as a possible use maybe maybe then you end up with a

191data center in there or something that's not really spinning off a lot of employee traffic and things like that but it does the spin off the property tax base that's a possibility there you might have some light industrial buildings but it's likely that you're going to have commercial professional office type uses in there as well so i kind of wanted to go through that as well so you kind of knew we did we based our estimates conservatively to try to say hey if it build out as light industrial and if this and that but it's so far the plane is so far out we don't have end users yet right so we don't know so we just tried to give you a realistic uh uh uh view of what could happen there so just add

192to the fact that when we we did the tiffor creek site here behind um menards and mc fitness and that that was the same concept was we overlaid a tiff on a large parcel of land with the then in did the infrastructure improvements got the dirt ready for construction and you've seen what's happened here in three or four years and again same thing with the kerblar property that was slated to be 1400 single family homes and that will be mixed use and so yeah yeah so it looks like my box got smashed down a little bit there but um the uh and this is really this and then the summary page okay so it was much worse when i sent it to you so if we did nothing at all right so uh we didn't

193if we didn't embark on this uh berlin business park overlay for this area um with the acreage that was available for um single-family homes would be to be developed you would be looking at almost 2 800 students additionally from this build out and we were very clear about that as we went through the process with berlin trustees and berlin residents the interest was to try to reposition that land for commercial and light industrial type uses in doing so we call that the smart growth plan there are uh there is the possibility from four new students we're well aware that uh but it's it's much minimized and you see that the potential then is 557 units in this total 1700 and what would end up being 1730 acres after that 60 is taken out so and

194again you look at the 20-year cost of the students we tried to look out and get an average of your cost per student take it out over the 20 years and we did account for the build out period i think we put that at 10 years to see this completely built out so taking that we go back to the similar slide before total tif revenues generated 256 tif revenues going to infrastructure at 144.8 million i will tell you a portion of that probably will be used for the interchange because we're not able to fully fund phase one of that interchange off of the just the ravines tiff but by and large that tif revenue is what's going to make that berlin business park build out the the roads that have to go in there the

195water and sewer extensions things like that so that's where that money's going to go the schools then would retain 88.5 million at the full build out and then you see the cost of the students um over that 20-year period and and again as i said before we embark on these kind of things to try to make the school district as whole as possible really this effort was to try to reposition that land so it went from that single family if not because you go back here and you see you're at 2 800 students if we did nothing so that that was really the the i guess the net effect when we're talking about cost of students if that was the case that shoots through the roof i didn't even put the number on here for

196you so in a summary really it's these last few boxes here um had the um uh i didn't put it in this slide but i did here so if uh if it build out as a single family unit so we didn't have this overlay you're looking at 527 million dollars based on your student cost and a built out of 10 years over that 20-year life of that tif so again there's really not a way for us to make the district whole here what we are able to do is reduce the district's exposure and that's what we're calling that savings of 360 million dollars that you otherwise would have had if it would have went all single family i have a question for mr rayford maybe jeff would know this in our current enrollment projections what

197do we have this area as do you know is it single family or uh with zones agricultural and um so it could be developed right right so we take into account we leave when we look at all those different uh zoning um classification so there's fr1 so if it's zoned fr1 it's farm residential one acre lots and or uh planned planned commercial planned single family yeah planned residential so planned residential you could end up with four to six units per acre or it just depends on what the now burl this is this process was about a two year process with berlin township but i mean i attended probably half a dozen township meetings met with residents about why i thought this was a good thing long term for for our district to position this land

198that way um so right now it is generating kids in our projections so when we take this offline in our that will modify our projections significantly what i was getting at yeah yeah so that we wanted you to see the summary there and really the what the net effect and what could have been the effect the other point i make about these is that it it also starts the clock running for when the 20-year period ends and at year 20 we'll still be having the same number of kids and that again that comes out what would we be what would our taxes be if we didn't have polaris as commercial property yeah yeah yeah you're going to want that once that tif burns off after 20 years like mr rafe said you go back to

199full collections right um and and it's the same thing for when you talk about the township and the county engineers office right there they're needing that their little portion that they get right for you know replacing roads and things like that so it's um that's i think you've probably heard bob safe before that's why we don't come to you with 30-year tiffs it's it's a 20-year that really makes sense for us so um so then the question of all this why do all of this and and really i go back to this this phase one again is what we're interested in and trying to fund with this all 43 point almost 44 million of the ravines tiff would go to that a portion of the berlin business park i haven't determined that yet but whatever

200it ends up needing to be there will also i will tell you um the other improvements to the east just so you're aware the uh county is finalizing an agreement with the village um of sunbury uh on on that end of stuff for other property outside of the district that's uh within the village limits so that's why our focus for these tiffs is is this par portion that's going to get us from 71 up to 36 37 because that's the portion we need to fund uh to get the berlin business park developed so or get going so at any rate that's uh that's the um the the root of why we're doing all this while we're asking so the request again this evening is uh your approval for resolution to waive the statutory requirements requirements

201because of the uh time crunch we're in here and we're trying to meet uh some deadlines um some really key deadlines there and then also the 2075 tiffs both of them uh to get this project going so i'm happy to answer any other questions kevin you were in the discussion we spent some time on this man i think it makes sense it's you know anything we do to find high quality non-single-family residential development is significant so yeah yeah i think it's a it's a good project that i'm i'm going to support if you're um if you're interested and have absolutely nothing else to do in your life i would encourage you to go to our website both of the overlay zoning plans are there they are probably 50 page documents each it's great great reading

202i really but you know the important thing of that is that there was a lot of time spent through those two years of design standards for this to make sure there's a a um an identity to the berlin area for this for a high quality product to go in and ultimately this is going to be a great development so thank you all for your time thank you very much thank you all right moving on we have some things to vote on i'm i'm gonna i'm gonna um do a and b together because it's the berlin business park in the the ravines at middle bridge and they're together and you have to approve one or not approve them both so um i'd like to present board action items a and b for your approval please submit

203a second any further discussion call the role please mr o'brien yes mr king yes mrs patrick yes dr weiss yes and mrs wagner fiesel yes thank you yep thank you thank you and then i'd like to present board action items c d e f and g because they are all related as you recall we extended the contracts of our teachers our custodial maintenance and our bus drivers earlier and it was a 2.5 annual increase and that's what we're doing with the rest of these employment groups so do i have a motion i'll move a second a second any further discussion with those call the role please mr king yes mrs patrick yes mr o'brien yes dr weiss yes and mrs wagner feasel yes thank you [Applause] mr ray yes i'd like to present superintendent action

204items a through j for approval do i have a motion i'll move i have a second a second any other discussion on those lots of pipes do your paws for show since you waited us out tonight we appreciate it does it every time he votes for something that my wife's getting approved for so call the roll please mrs patrick yes dr weiss yes mr king yes mr o'brien yes mrs wagner feasel yes thank you now i need a motion to go into executive session as permitted by section 121.22 g1 of the ohio revised code to consider the employment of public employees again we'll be going into executive session and um there will be no action when we come out um so if you can call the role please dr weiss mr king yes mr o'brien

205yes mrs patrick yes and mrs wagner feasel yes thank you thanks everybody for hanging around do i have a motion to adjourn so much dr weiss yes mrs patrick yes mr king yes mr o'brien yes and mrs wagner feasel yes thank you thank you