001Ladies and gentlemen, it's six o'clock. Actually, it's a little bit later. You can all, you know, do the clapping because I actually remembered to turn my microphone on. Hey. Well, how about that? Okay. I did that just for him. Uh, we would like to uh start with the call to order, please. Mr. Durer, >> Miss Haywood, >> here. >> Miss Minky, >> here. >> Miss Phillips >> here. Miss Roland Miller >> here. >> Miss Lurmer >> here. And I just lost my connection. So I'm going to go off of this. We're going to do the um pledge of allegiance, please. The flag is right here. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for
002all. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much for being here tonight. It is a pleasure and and joy to see all of you here. It's nice to have so many here for such a good reason. But just so you know, our safety brief briefing goes as this. Parisburg schools welcomes you to the Commodore building and we thank you very much for attending tonight's board of education meeting. We care about the safety of our students, staff, families, and guests. Please note that there are exits at both the east and west ends of our cafeteria here. And in case of an emergency, an AED is just outside the cafeteria doors. You are located at 140 East Indiana Avenue. Thank you for joining us tonight and supporting Parisburg schools. Uh do I have a motion to adopt the
003proposed agenda? >> So move. >> Miss Mankey. >> Second. >> And Miss Roland Miller. Is there any discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Mr. Jurer, >> Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. >> Miss Haywood, >> yes. >> Miss Phillips, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. And all right, we are into our agenda and I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Anne Stat. >> Good evening everyone. Tonight, we are honored to honor someone who really doesn't love being honored very much. So, could the Woodland crew come on up along with our shining star award winner, Glenn Brandt? Woodland crew. Yes. Yes. Awesome. Absolutely awesome. I love that we have woodland crew past and present. Is Dr. Sawas here? I don't see him. Are one of you reading this or am I
004reading this? >> You can do it. >> I feel like you're a reading teacher. I think this would be perfect for you. >> Just the whole thing. I can >> All right. Starting with congratulations. >> I think this was the proper Oh, she she just got here. >> Thank you, friend. >> So, my name's Julie. I'm sorry I'm late. Um, I am one of a handful of people who actually nominated Glenn for this award. Um, I've known this Shining Star recipient a long time. We both grew up in Parisburg. In fact, this exact building used to be our junior high. We worked at the same restaurants. We knew the same people. We graduated in 198. Uh, I became reacquainted with Glenn when Perryburg hired me to teach the Excels program. I was working at Fort
005Megs. On my planning days at Woodland, I would often run into Glenn again and we'd catch up and he was always so helpful and so positive and I remember him encouraging me to come work at Fort Megs or come work at Woodland, leave Fort Megs, come to Woodland because it was the best place to work. Um, and as it turns out, he was right. Um, we nominated Glenn was nominated for this award not only because of his helpfulness helpfulness and positivity, but because he is a dedicated and compassionate member of our school's community. Glenn consistently goes above and beyond to support both students and staff. He is known for his reliability and willingness to help at a moment's notice, whether greeting teachers with a cart when their hands are full or responding quickly to a
006maintenance need. In my classroom, those needs are referred to as pickles, and I have one at least once a week, sometimes more. And Glenn is happy to come and help. Glenn works behind the scenes with logistics, orchestrating community events, preparing for parties, and making sure we are prepared as a staff. His attention to detail and commitment to keeping the building in excellent condition ensures that the building and classrooms are safe, welcoming, and ready for everyone. Beyond his daily responsibilities, Glenn builds meaningful relationships with students through kindness, patience, and genuine care. He often supports students in quiet, thoughtful ways, providing food, washing coats, repairing personal items, or offering opportunities for students to assist him, feeling a sense of pride and belonging. Every situation is handled with discretion and respect. Glenn is equally supportive of our staff,
007always ready to lend a hand with any task, big or small, including cutting pumpkins, looking for lost items, and cleaning up class pet accidents. His strong work ethic, high standards, and leadership have helped maintain a level of excellence for over 30 years. Despite his many contribution, Glenn remains humble and would prefer that we do not uh draw attention to him or his efforts. So, as you can imagine, he's super happy to be standing here with us. So, thank you, Glenn. >> Yeah. Let's all right. Welcome to our retirees who returned. That's so nice of you. You know you're something special when our retirees come out to celebrate you. Next up, Dr. Faultz will be recognizing our theater educator of the year. >> Hello everybody. It's good to see some familiar faces in the crowd. Uh
008I'm very honored uh that not too long ago we found out at the Ohio Thespian Conference that Mr. Corey Minhart was selected as the 2026 theater educator of the year by the Ohio Educator sorry Educational Theater Association. Give him some Mr. Minhart. Would you like to join me up here, please? >> He's so theatrical. >> Kind of fitting. So, we did quite well at the Ohio Thespian Conference. We had quite a few students who received some very high honors in addition to the honor that Mr. Minehart received. And this was based on student nominations and a panel. and they uh had some really nice things that I thought I would share with you. Uh Mr. Minehart has had a profound impact on students through his exceptional leadership, creativity, and dedication to theater education. Students consistently
009describe him as a top tier educator who brings out the best in everyone involved in Troop 52. Beyond producing outstanding performances, he creates opportunities for students to grow as leaders, collaborators, performers, and individuals. One student highlighted Mr. Minhard's vision in transforming the traditional winter 1 acts into the new winter spotlight festival, a student- centered experience that expanded opportunities for participation and creativity. By involving students directly in the planning process, he empowered them to take ownership of the production while building confidence, teamwork, and leadership skills. Students shared that this encouragement and support helped them become more comfortable with public speaking, performance, and stepping outside of their comfort zone. Students also praised Mr. my heart for care, professionalism, and emotional depth he brings to every production. His direction of the diary of Van Frank was described as
010especially impactful with students noting that respectful and powerful way he guided both the cast and audience through such an important story. The production left a lasting emotional impression on those involved with audience members being moved by the performance as well. Students repeatedly emphasize that Mr. Minhardt not only teaches theater skills but also instills creativity, hard work, self-sufficiency, and a commitment to excellence. Through his passion and leadership, he has created a theater program where students feel supported, challenged, and inspired to become the very best versions of themselves. Congratulations, Mr. Myart. Not really centered. >> Next up, Mr. Buer. Mr. Buer will be highlighting the students who've excelled at regional and state science day competitions. >> Absolutely. So, thank you to the board for allowing us to to come to recognize some outstanding students. We have the
011junior high with the the state science fair. And um what I would be able to share with them won't do it justice. I'll actually let Corbin uh kind of share about the accolades that the students have achieved. But I do want to uh just briefly recognize Corbin, too, because Corbin is our science fair adviser. He's a seventh grade science teacher at the junior high and science fair literally would not exist at the junior high if it was not for him. Like we literally did not have it until he came to our district. And once he got his feet wet a little bit with his teaching job, he came to us and said, you know, my other school I led this program uh and there's state level competitions elite regional. I'd really like to to start
012it here at the junior high for our students. And we said, well, you've got a plan for it, make it happen. And he did. And I think every year he's added more and more and more and more. And every year it seems like we've had more and more and more kids and more and more and more success. And even this year, I think he actually assisted some high school students with it as well, too. So, he does he does a fantastic job. But we're super proud of our students. And Corbin's going to brag on them a little bit. We just got some really good news with a couple of our participants at the state level who might qualify for some bigger competitions as well. And with that being said, uh here's Corbin Brangham and he'll
013introduce all of our science fair kids. come on up here. >> All right, you guys can stand over here. >> Okay, >> when I say your name, just wave or step forward so they know who you are. All right. All right. Well, first of all, I want to say thank you to the board for this excellent opportunity to recognize the accomplishments of these wonderful students. Um, this is our biggest group ever. Um, this is just a selection of the ones who were able to come tonight because I know some of them are also performing at the talent show tonight at the junior high. So, very talented group of students. Um, so we had 16 students qualify for state science day. I believe last year it was nine. And HPI had two students that participated and
014qualified for state science fair as well. even though I had hardly anything to do with it. They had older sisters that had had done it before. And all they said was, "Can we do this, too?" And I said, "I'm sorry, I can't advise three buildings, but here's how to do it by yourselves." And they did it by themselves anyways, which is incredible. Um, in order to qualify, students needed to ask a scientific question and answer it using all the scientific methods. They did the full scientific process. Then they were doing background research, uh, keeping records, writing a full report. Some of them were 10 pages or more out of a junior high student is pretty impressive. Um they had to create visual and oral presentations for the judges and in order to progress to states
015and all of them made it to states they had to earn a superior which is the highest rating at the regional science day. Ours was at the University of Toledo this year which was much closer than last year. Last year we were at Ohio Northern. So I'm very glad that University of Toledto is doing it again. And then they made it on to state science day. Now, there is a level beyond state science day that we have never reached before because it's not just superior at states that gets you into the national competition. It's the top 10% of students who attend state science day. So, it's a very high bar and we reached that one this year. So, I'm going to go in order here. First off, we've got Vernika Kenny and Rutha Karetti, our
016two HPI students. Are they here? Come on up. Come on up. Okay. Their project was on the effects of different water purification methods on water and they got an excellent score at state science day which is incredible for doing that without hardly any mentoring. I know that Mrs. Boros helped them out a little bit some questions at school but they did incredible on their own. Um next we've got Albert Sai Daniel John and Jack Tran. Their project was called Slow and Steady Wins the Race, which was about different methods of um growing um growing different grasses under different types of light. They were trying to see what colors of light were the most effective at growing grass in an indoor environment because they were doing it in the middle of winter, but they still managed
017to get that grass to grow. They also earned an excellent. Everyone else got superior. So, we have so many superiors this year. We were so close to the school award. We just needed like one more superior. We would have gotten the school award. Maybe next year. Um Titha Kamurray did a project called using micro macro invertebrates to measure water quality. So she was going around was it Three Meadows Pond and testing Three Meadows Pond for different levels of water quality, gathering snails and was it some larvae? >> Yeah. To see if that would indicate the water quality around the pond. Um Dia uh Yeah. Dasukula and Snikda Camarretti did an experiment uh fruit fight finding the best source of vitamin C. So they tested different fruits for getting uh to to see how much vitamin
018C was in different fruits. Uh Krishna Sridhar Vortex waste collection he designed a device that would uh spin in the water and collect trash to be uh to get it out of the ocean. At regionals he won a college advantage 529 award and at states he also won honorable mention in the Milt Austin aquatic science award category. Uh, next we have Crosby Robinson and Drew Chala. Uh, their shoe order shoe odor science best way to remove bad smells. And so they tested a lot of different ways to remove smells from their stinky track shoes or crosscountry shoes. What was the best way? >> Dryer sheets. Just put dryer sheets in there and they will smell better. Not necessarily good, but better. All right. We had a couple who weren't able to make it, so I'm
019going to move along. So, uh, last but not least, Gari Pondov, unlocking your brain power, knowing how your left, right, or both brain style can shape your future. So, at regionals, she won a B wiser scholarship. At states, she won the third place behavioral science award, a Dr. Lynn E. Alfer Young Scientist Award, and a Thermoffisher Scientific Junior Innovator Award. She is our nationals qualifier, first time ever. Congratulations, Thankfully, Nationals is in the fall, so we get to take the summer off. Another round of applause. These are a fantastic group of students. Congratulations. Next up, uh, Kendra Bogs, who I think I saw walk in. Yes, there she is. Absolutely, I saw her. Uh, she's going she's here to recognize two Perryburg High School student artists who earned state level honors. Good evening. Um, I
020have the privilege of getting to recognize um, some of my art students again. I feel like I've gotten to be up here just way too many times. I'm so fortunate and lucky to get to be at a school where we have so many excellent um, students. Um, Pattiesburg Schools is proud to recognize the PHS artists who have earned state honors in the 56 Ohio Governor's Youth Art Exhibition, one of the most competitive student art showcases from nearly 5,800 entries statewide. Only 250 works are selected. Um, so first, um, can I have well, can I have Mariah and Madison come up and join me? um just to talk a little bit um off the cuff I guess of about both of their works because I got to work with them all year long and sometimes I
021feel like it took all year long to make these pieces. Um well, first of all, Mariah, she is a freshman and she is the first freshman in Parisburg's history that I'm aware of that actually placed at um state. So that's a huge accomplishment um for Parisburg High School. Um every day she would come in and just tediously work away on this still life and it is the most beautiful still life you've ever seen. Um so I was really honored to get to watch her just make it. Um it's absolutely gorgeous. And then Madison's piece in the title dissection. Is it just dissection? dissection. It just appeared one day in my room, this beautiful, gorgeous piece that she had been working on. Um, and it got reworked and reworked over the entire year until it was
022perfect. Um, Madison is a threetime state placer and uh not fourth because I'm pretty sure she did not enter. That's probably the only reason. Um, something to just consider probably every over the years there was probably close to 17,000 works of art and only 750 pieces and you had three pieces over the years. So huge accomplishment for them. I'm so glad to be here tonight to give them this honor. Thank you. All right. And Mrs. Gerber is here to recognize our seal of biiteracy award winners. I guess they're not winners, they're earners, right? Earners. Good evening. It is an honor to be here tonight to recognize a group of exceptional students. These students have achieved a milestone that sets them apart not only in our district but also across the state of Ohio and in
023a broader sense in the US. The seal of by literacy is an award given by the Ohio Department of Education and workforce to graduating seniors who have demonstrated a high level of proficiency in both English and at least one other world language. To earn this seal, these students had to earn a score of at least intermediate high on the American Council of Foreign Languages proficiency scale in speaking, writing, reading, and listening in the case of Chinese, French, and Spanish, and in receptive comprehension and interpersonal interaction in American Sign Language. A score of intermediate high means that a student can produce paragraphlength narratives and descriptions across major time frames and understand and appropriately respond and handle complications in spoken conversations. Intermediate high is an impressive level of proficiency for high school students to attain. It is
024the level Ohio requires for college graduates applying for a teaching license in world language. As we know, bilingualism is a superpower in our global economy. It requires effort, cognitive flexibility, and a deep appreciation for cultural diversity. We are so proud of these students and thrilled to present them to the board and to our community tonight. I will begin by presenting the seal of biiteracy recipients in French. So students, as I call your name, please come forward. And it looks like you'll just line up here and then I will probably be giving you your certificate after the photo I imagine. So we'll kind of see how that works. All right. So our students are um Abdel Ramen Abuhif, Aditia Ambukar, Elizabeth Crawford, Madison Fiser, William Hollandbeck, Augustine Labuchier, Brooklyn Milligan, Miles Provenza, Olivia Scazznney, Janie Snider,
025and Helena Souza, who also earned the seal of biiteracy in Portuguese. So, she has earned two All of them and you're going to take them all together or >> such a big group. >> Works for me. Works for me. Does anyone want to do Spanish for sign language >> or do I just keep standing? >> Um, I will also be presenting our Chinese seal of literacy recipient and that is Sophia Shine. >> First one. >> Congratulations. At this time, I would like to introduce Mrs. Emily Bunch, who will present the ASL certificates. >> Good evening. I am so excited to introduce my kiddos who have been working hard for four years. some of them three years. They earned the seal in three years. Um this is a lot of hard work that they've taken either
026after school, staying after class, before school, coming in studying hard. But I am so excited um to introduce nine kiddos who have worked very hard. First up, I have Miss Lamaya Burnside, Olivia Crumball, Ava Hafner, Ava Kelly, Lexi Nommen, Megan Skeki, Nico Wakowski, Olivia Zisoff, and Kendra Zukuro. Love you guys. And introducing the Spanish recipients is Pray Danielle Tuleski. Good evening and thank you so much for this opportunity to recognize our amazing scholars um in Spanish. Um I have the pleasure of introducing um not only my own students but also some of the students in the heritage language class for students who grow up speaking or hearing Spanish at home. And this is a great way for them to represent their culture and also show their um skills in English as well. So, please join
027me when I call your name up here to the front. June Andreas, Brayley Beckan, Kayn Beckan, Andrew Billings, Pote Lopez, Holly Dalton, Sophia Holm, Diego Mortaga, David Lens, Angelie Malik, Sebastian Morales, Jacob Nahas, and Jordan Nahas, Janomar Pagan Perez, and Nina Rando. Let's give a round of applause. after the superintendence report and the presentation by PHS principal Dr. Folultz. We will take a five minute break. So take a breath if you can there. All right. Oops. That's not it. That is not it. All right. As always, I am thrilled to share with you the success of our students and staff. Maybe if my slides will change. We are not cooking here tonight. There we go. As a reminder, ensuring all students achieve their greatest potential is our mission and our vision where passion drives exemplary
028education. We've certainly seen examples of that tonight. Uh thank you once again for all the many recognition days that we have in April and May. We continue to recognize our staff on just so many recognition days. The PA announced their 2026 award recipients. Frank teacher Michelle Wadell, a third grade teacher as PEA teacher of the year. Angel Syc and second grade at Woodland as the Susan Jasob award. and Joe Grayson, the physical education teacher at Frank for rookie of the year. Congratulations to Rick Reig for being recognized by the Ohio High School Golf Association Coaches Association with the Boys Sportsmanship, Ethics, and Integrity Award. I would like to recognize Quudoba, which is a restaurant that just opened, uh, and thank them for their donation to the Parisburg Schools Foundation as a part of their ribbon
029cutting celebration, which was great. Occupational therapists Miss Virginia and Miss Lexi set up a mini lunchon for preschoolers to practice using a tray during snack. Many of you aren't thinking about that, but we are thinking about what that looks like next year. So this was good practice for them. There was a book tasting in Miss Cali Present's class at Fort Mags Elementary School. Our first grade students at Frank invited their families to school for music informances where they showcased different skills that they've learned this year. You can see some of those skills on display there. The toe elementary school safety patrol got to cross a robot recently. That was exciting. Not every kid can say that. Woodland's ele Woodland Elementary fourth graders in Miss Cameron Kix's class recently completed their annual community impact project. Students
030chose to support the Lucas County Pit Crew and Toledo Humane Society organizing a donation drive that collected over a hundred items. Keeping the dog theme, Fort Mags is so excited about officially welcoming Captain as its permanent school facility dog. His success is made possible by his handler, Miss Courtourtney Sparks, whose dedication has helped him become a trusted presence in the building. Thank you to the Parisburg Schools Foundation and the Ability Center for making this program possible. HPI worked in coordination with Christine Albreight, who I think we will hear from tonight, director of careers and community service, and PHS students to plan a STEM day for sixth grade students. Eighth graders visited PHS for Frostfest. It was a great experience and students had a lot of fun learning about the high school. 70 70 musicians from
031the Parisburg High School Orchestra program competed at the 2026 World Strides Heritage Festival in Nashville. Both orchestras delivered outstanding performances earning gold ratings, the highest honor achievable. Parisburg Schools has again been named with the best communities for music education award from the NAMM Foundation for outstanding support and commitment to music education. You can see what decision day looked like at Parisburg High School. Pretty impressive. And Sunday was just a spectacular day, an absolutely spectacular day for the class of 2026. We want to congratulate all of them. We're so proud of each and every one of them. It was a great day. All right, Dr. Folultz, you're up. >> I know. It's very rare. Very, very rare. So, um, with regards to graduation, I appreciate the participation of the board and everybody being there. Um, feels
032like it was more than a couple days ago, but, um, uh, it was a great event and we had a lot of people contribute to for it to be a success. So, I appreciate and we have a lot of seniors here who participated in it. So, unfortunately, they have to listen to me talk for a little bit longer. But uh before we get started, this is I feel like with some things that are happening at Parisburg High School as far as you know our discussions with students about careers and some of the changes we've made with our courses coming up, uh it's pretty timely that we be here to actually speak to the board about this. So at this time, I'd like to be I'd like um Christine Albbright as well as Analisa Williams join
033me. Uh Christine Albbright is our director of uh careers and community service and Anna Lisa Williams is a college and workforce readiness instructor and they're we're all going to tag team this together and talk a little bit about the frame of reference that we use and some of the mindsets that we want to develop when we talk to students about careers. So what I have up here first is actually a slide that I've taken from a presentation that we do with our eighth graders. And so several years ago we started on this sort of journey uh understanding life design which the Bowling Green State University has invested a lot of resources into that was developed at Stanford University and it actually frames careers in terms of a journey and something that is moldable and something
034that you you know work through over time in the mindset of a designer and not necessarily thinking of careers as we've often talked about as a destination where you go to school, you grow up, you get your job and then you are a dentist forever or whatever the case may be which sort of develops a little bit of a fixed mindset for some but also kind of gives the false illusion that one day you're going to arrive and then you may never change and I think over time as we've worked through high with high school students there's a lot of pressure and some even in the audience might be feeling it that you have to decide your life's work at 16 17 years old and that's just not the case we know and want to
035start talking about with students that really the decision you make after high school is just the next step. So when we actually talk with eighth graders, we start building that mindset in when we talk to them about designing their Parisburg experience when they come to the high school. And so we begin there. I wasn't sure where to point this. So when we talk about the next step, it's always about, you know, from 8th to 9th grade or life after high school. And we want to begin to use that vocabulary so people and our students start thinking of it in that frame of reference. So a question we pose to students is how do you build a life while in high school that is rewarding, meaningful, and maybe even fun. So you think about all these
036different aspects to your life and how do I find the pieces and parts of Parisburg High School that are going to help fulfill me in some way or help me to grow in some way. We we talk about certain mindsets that we have to have. We have to know that high school is a process, right? It's a journey. Let go of the end goal. Focus on the next step and see what happens next. Don't get too far. Don't caught up thinking too far ahead. Look at what you have in front of you now. Take advantage of the steps and opportunities you have. Even if there's things that you don't necessarily understand why you have to do them. Know that the people with purpose, intention, background, put those in place to help you experience something. We
037want all of our students to be curious. If you have an idea that something might be fun or interesting, go try it. If you are hearing of a career or something that maybe a parent of a friend does and you want to learn more about it, ask them questions. Go do a little bit of research, you know, if there's an activity that you see at our club carnival that we have every fall and you want to know a little bit more about it, put yourself out there and be curious. Have a bias to action. This is really important. Don't just think of things and talk about doing them. Go do it. Go experience it. Go have a prototype experience. go do an internship. But we really want to start talking to students earlier about, you
038know, this mindset that we want them to be able to continue adopt because we do also talk with our students at a point in time about how to evaluate where you are in your life and how do you make changes and know that you're never stuck. So what we have up here is a little bit of a linear sort of process that we take students through beginning when they enter into high school that really combines self-discovery. We want them to understand that your performance leads to, you know, certain options and certain availability, whether it's through your courses and your grades, through choices with penta, and then choosing what your next step is going to look like in your experiences. And there's a lot of experiences that we develop and put in place for students to
039help them find out more about themselves. You know, from the self-discovery standpoint, we start with students even in the seventh grade with an assessment called youth science, which we've had for a number of years, but we've leveraged it to a certain extent, but really have a lot of potential to use it to do some help students learn more about the things that they are naturally good at that lend themselves to certain u lines of work or career paths or even just how things that such as this may impact their social life or their world of work. Um, we also also looks at interests, but we don't want to be completely interest driven because we believe that passion develops over time by putting yourself out and doing things that you are really good at in developing
040those strengths. So, it's a very strength-based approach and we begin tinkering with this and using it with students over the years. And so, beginning in nth grade, our counselors in freshman study hall actually have u the freshman learning series where the students take the assessment. We take two days to kind of unpack the results and then we take a fourth day to even discuss a little bit further some of the next steps that we want to take with them. So in 10th grade uh we have a class that we are creating next year that is actually a hybrid of two courses that we've had for the last several years. There's a state requirement that all students have a half a credit financial literacy. So all of our sophomores have been taking personal finance for a
041while. We had a we have a class and had a class called college and career readiness which teaches students all sorts of different sorts of professional skills such as interviewing, resume writing, professional networking and the importance of that even sort of career design and branding in order to help you, you know, solicit for careers and and build a little bit of a name for yourself. So, we are taking those two courses and we've created a hybrid that all sophomores will take. So, that way they're getting the best of both and we're really setting them up themselves up at the turn to be able to take advantage of a lot of the opportunities that students are presented with beginning in their 11th grade years such as Penna Career Center, um internships, different work-based learning opportunities. So,
042we're hoping that through a lot of these different structured activities that are set up over the years that by the time we're at that midpoint of high school, we're very well set up to understand enough about ourselves and the myriad of options available to make intentional choices about the things that we're going to get involved in um to help us make the best educated uh choices about our next step. So, I could go on and on about some of the different things revolving around the mindset, but what I want to do is start talking about and let Anna Lalisa talk about what we're doing in finance your future to help students set students up for the second half of high school. >> Awesome. Wonderful. My name is Anaisa Williams and I teach our college and
043career readiness at Parisburg High School. So, we are creating a hybrid course called Finance Your Future. This is completely innovative for the state of Ohio. Um we are mixing a state requirement in financial literacy with excellence in teaching in college and career prep and we're creating a course. Um so our course units we're going to start off um with discovering your aptitudes um understanding like branding who I am. We're also going to incorporate that um Ohio jobs readiness seal that goes on a report card. Um we're going to incorporate all of that into the 10th grade. Um, we're also going to talk about educational options, paying for college, behavioral economics, budgeting, banking, taxes, investing, but not only investing, but how do I build wealth? Our students are really, really intelligent and intellectual and want to
044know how to build wealth starting early. Um, and also we're going to talk about uh credit, the pitfalls. Um, and then we are going to do career preparation. So, every single student is going to come out with a resume that has, you guys don't know this, but has um employed um hundreds of Parisburg kids around this area through this resumeé format. They are going to create a cover letter um that they're going to be able to use and edit for the rest of their lives. And then they're also going to get real world mock job interview experience. Um we invite about 20 to 30 community members that come in. Our students um get mock job have mock job interview experience through that but they also get summer jobs. They also get internships. We get facetime
045with employers and people love Parisburg school students because they're exemplary and they're easy to love. And it's just getting students in front of the right people to give them the opportunity to ensure all students reach their greatest potential. And that that is my job as as a teacher and then also as a facilitator. So that's why we're we're um creating this course. And then this one vision is going to be for all students. It's going to incorporate with the Parisburg school's vision. Um but financial literacy is an Ohio graduation uh requirement. Um, we understand that Gen Z is lacking in professional skill sets and as a school system, we are going to help uh put a put a I don't know that put not a band-aid but but we're going to help bridge that gap
046for these students. Um, we're also every student is going to come out with a career portfolio that they know who I am and where I am going and they're going to be able to use that not in high school but for the rest of their lives. And then also we are going to incorporate this life design that no matter what life throws at me, I can gauge myself emotionally. I can gauge my interests. I can gauge my aptitudes and I don't panic when life happens. I can pivot when life happens. So that's our finance our future course and that is going to be mandatory next year for all 10th grade students. And I'll do my next Oh, sorry. I don't have the clicker. >> Yep. One thing I'll add about the the courses in college
047and career readiness which had a lot of our you know professional skills development built within it probably only ran with how many students per year up to this point. >> Yeah. Uh probably we probably got 150 per year. >> So now we're will be working from 150 up to our 440 about. So all kids will have the benefit of of having that. So then our our next course is this workforce readiness was which is a senior only course. Um workforce readiness is work-based learning uh for seniors. Um in 2025 um I took 434 graduates and uh I I divided it by how many people are in the course which is 55. 9% of of of 2025 graduates um were in the course this year. um next year um there's 70 people on the course there's
048pro projected up to 16%. Um and that's absolutely wonderful. But the big thing that we're really excited about and and what's really innovative is our ability to get internships. We have community members saying yes to kids. I want kids to be hands on students to be hands-on and working in in careers that they are passionate about and getting hands-on experience. Um our our um partners are listed. We have First Solar. We have six senior students going to First Solar. Not only are they going to work part-time and get paid, they are going to have the opportunity to keep that job after high school, get complete college reimbursement, and then go back to First Solar and work uh full-time. Um and then our other partners are there as well. So that is our internship partners. Um
049and that is what workforce readiness in essence um is doing. >> So kind of going back to as how we've prepared students in the first half of high school, we also try to create a lot of different exposure opportunities to give kids the opportunity to learn more about different occupations that they didn't even know existed. I think if you looked in some of the interest surveys that we see, especially in the younger grades, it's like a lot of kids want to be teachers, doctors, lawyers, firemen, and policemen. Why? because those are the things that they know the most about and they're the most comfortable with. And then once you start to see where their aptitudes are, there's a little bit of a disconnect between what some of the strengths are and some of their interests
050that they have in some of those areas. And we've tried to construct some different ways to get kids interested in things that they might not otherwise, you know, learn about. So, um, some of the different exposure opportunities exist all throughout the district. Christine is a hand in creating, so I'll let her take it from here. >> Hello, I'm Christine Albbright. I'm the director of careers and community service for Perry's Ridge Schools. I apologize, I'm a little under the weather today, so you'll have to deal with my voice a little. Um, so really for our students, we are really trying to build up a kind of a directory of services and resources for the students. Um, and these are things everything from, you know, career career awareness where we're talking about the assessments. Um, we are
051starting to build up our website that will have exploration tools for students so that they will be able to go onto the website and be able to access some of these tools themselves. Um, we also are building up a video library of careers so that again students can go and do some of that exploration and learn about some of the different careers that are out there and broaden their exposure. Uh, we are also helping students with that career preparation. Um, so as we talked before in um with workforce readiness, our students are doing things like resumeumés and they are doing mock interviews and um I am just very very excited that we get to be able to do these things with all of our students and not just a small portion of our students. Um
052again the employers that are coming for the mock interviews um love our students. Uh oftentimes our students do get job opportunities or offers for after graduation through these interactions. Um with résumés, we even have employers who are coming in and working with students and helping them build their resumes and reviewing them and giving them tips and advice. So again, I'm very excited that we get to expose all of our students to this and not just a handful of them. Um, but beyond that, students can also come and get one-on-one help with those things like if they want to prepare for an interview, if they need help with an application, if they need help with um their resume, um they can seek one-on-one assistance with that and sit down with me and be able to kind
053of work through some of that stuff. Um, with exploration, again, we talked about wanting our students to go out and experience things, um, and see different things to find out, is it the right fit for me? Is this really what I want? Um, oftentimes when I worked at the university level, I worked with students who would go through three years of college just to start their internship their junior year and be like, "Wow, this is not what I thought it was and I want to change my major." Um, so I want to make sure that our students have a good idea of what they want to do as they're leaving um to see what their next step is and not getting like three years into their college and then wanting to change and then you
054know that affects their finances, that affects like the classes that they're taking. Um, so starting that exploration early is really, really important for us. And so we're helping students explore by helping them set up informational interviews, job shadowing opportunities, work site visit opportunities. Um, and then also we're starting to really introduce that work-based learning. Um, as Analisa spoke about earlier, we are helping students uh with jobs, those internships. Um, the internship opportunities that we listed, we have plenty of other partners that I'm sitting down and talking with right now um that are very, very interested like Wood County Parks, the city of Parisburg. There's a lot of different organizations that are interested but just don't know how to offer those opportunities. And so we're working with them collaboratively to see how can we create these
055opportunities for our students. And then last but not least, we also talked about some different events that we have going on. We have been building up a lot of different things for our students. Um we have career days at the elementary schools, but mainly I work with them in the HPI junior high and high school. Um and we're looking at reinventing the career days too, trying to really find out like what interests students, what do they want. Um, I've been listening to the feedback from the students and we're trying to reimagine and redevelop how we have these days so that they're most impactful for them. Um, we talked about mock interview days. This year we had our first job internship and volunteer fair at the high school where students were able to find job internship
056and volunteer opportunities for summertime and for next year. Uh we do career cafes at the junior high where employers come in and the students sit down at lunch, they get pizza and they get to learn from some different um employers about different jobs and careers and explore those. Um we also attend different events. So Build My Future is a career fair that is out in Wood County that's amazing. It's a hands-on interactive career fair that we bring our students to. Finance 101 um is an event that we go to where students learn about personal finance. they kind of go through a simulation. Um, and we're actually going to be bringing it to the high school next year so that all of our um finance um and career students will be able to go through the
057finance 101 course. Uh, the amazing shape is a national um initiative. It's a national program that we are exploring and putting um possibly doing it either in the junior high if it doesn't work in the junior high maybe looking um as an option for the high school. So, not only are we continually building new um programs and events for students, but we're also always exploring what new things can we bring in. Um next year, we hope to uh put together some business site visits where monthly we'll have different sites where students will be able to visit and they can register and go and um they can learn about different professions um by shadowing and visiting the companies for the day. And then we also have on our service side of things, jacket week of service.
058Um that aligns with global youth service day where we invite our students, our staff, our community um to pledge volunteerism during jacket week of service. Um and we had a soft launch of it this year. Uh we had uh quite a few people who responded and they got wonderful jackets giving back t-shirts. So next year we hope to expand it even more um broadcast it so that everyone can participate and hopefully we can get all of our jacket community um to engage in community service. So so many other things I could talk about but those are some of the big ones. Um and I'll leave it there. >> Thanks. So I think to close you know the bottom line is a field after several years you know we are positioned really well to pull together
059some I think programming that may be bit sort of disparit uh throughout different places to really rethink and uh start looking at how we intelligently talk about careers with students how we integrate career into the classroom and how we expose them to careers outside of it. So, thank you. >> If I I can I just ask so if if I'm a junior and I want to take this new course, you're allowed to take that? >> Yes. >> Okay. I'm just wondering about the the juniors and seniors who haven't >> That's that's an excellent question. And I think because we're blending a couple of experiences together, we have some students that because of what their course schedule requires in ninth and tth grade that they might not be able to do it. And so that we
060have upper classmen now that even take personal finance later on down the road. So no matter what stage they are in high school, I think the things that we're teaching within it are applicable and maybe even later on for some of them more urgent. >> So for sure. >> Any other questions? >> Okay. Thank you guys. >> That's great. Thank you. All right, at this time I think we have a five minute Break. This one is operations. Yep. Um the normally I'll come to you with information about operations and I'm just glowing and excited and and you know bragging on my guys that have done such a wonderful wonderful job. This one seemed a little despondent. Um uh for example transportation, they're already down six. um they're going to be losing their head mechanic and
061as we know there was u a most tragic email that went out saying pay attention to your app because your route might get caught uh for a day for a time for a period. So there's there's a lot of concern going on in transportation. Um and if that wasn't bad enough then we've got uh in technology Mr. Schaefer will be um submitting his retirement. And um then they turned around, they lost their generator at Flagship, so that was kind of exciting. Um and that's a 30 to$40,000 expense. Um he's already down four people um for the start of school. So, they're already looking ahead to the beginning of school, let alone where they're at now. And they're getting a little bit concerned. But not to be dismayed, James comes along and and he's excited because
062these sidewalks at Frank are getting fixed and um there's some good things going along with him. So, that was kind of operations for our last meeting. Um, do you have any questions for operations? Okay, you know how I love to brag on those guys. um in personnel. Um one of the things that um especially for our our our new members, July 10th is the last day that employees can leave um a district without getting permission from the superintendent and board. Correct. Um so that's that quickly comes up as people are making their shifts and moving around. So, that's kind of on everybody's mind. Um, what was the other thing I was going to say? Oh, just pointing out on um and it's in the agenda tonight. I think it's 16. um the the the process
063that we're doing for James as he is uh and you'll see it in the agenda that his position gets rifted the a new position gets created and then he becomes the director of that new position. So we'll see that further down. Um is there anything else that you would want to add Dr. Anstat with P personnel? Okay. So then that puts us to pupil services. >> People services is meeting in June. It didn't meet in May. >> Okay. All right. Well, that was easy. And um development Susan or PSF? >> We didn't there was no meeting this month because of the >> of the banquet. Okay. All right. Well, that's one way to scoot through those. And that will take us then to 8.1. And Mr. Drewer, you may take over. All right. All right.
064Well, good evening everyone. Let's uh jump into it. We are uh 10 months in the year. Actually, you know, it's 10 and a half months. We're the year is about there. And so, you know, in some ways the financial statements get bor more boring because that's so much more under our belt. But, okay, let's see if I got to turn this thing on for it to work. All right. So, just again remind you our cash balance. This was at the end of March and with the end of April, we got we received our final income tax payment for the fiscal year. And so, that that's all settled. So we're at our high our high point for cash balance and again we show this is to remind the board why we have to maintain such a
065cash balance because of the you know draw down between summer and winter. And I will say at this point we are kind of shoring up expecting our tax payments this summer to be late. the county auditor. They do not know how to calculate yet because of the house bills and the claw back and the 2023 appraisal um how to calculate those taxes yet. So, um just so just know that um we we just may be a little bit later on our cash flow this summer. Well, I I assumed that they had figured that out because a friend of mine called me very irate and said that the bank had sent them a letter that their um escrow account was going up by $300 due to the tax changes. And I said, well, whoa. >> The
066county auditor has said has is has been stating that they don't know how to I mean, maybe not quite they don't know how to calculate it yet. They've been waiting for information from the Department of Taxation. they don't know how to do the clawback and then obviously we don't know for sure what the our reimbursement is going to be because of the clawback. So >> any escro any escrow calculation right now would still be based on existing taxes without the changes and that's why in July the bill should be lower but they we don't know how much lower but any calculation right now would show that there's an increase. what they'll do is they'll get a refund next year because they the um the banks are whoever's collecting your escrow is basing it on your
067actual taxes right now not projected forward. So on a more granular basis um here is our for this year and again the red is our revenue. So very clearly you can see the challenges. You know expenses don't vary too much month monthto month but the revenue is what is what we have to bank and again with the new month added on there. Um you know the year is going just just as expected that way. I'm going to spend a little time here kind of I'm going to update where you we are year over year but I I'm going to spend more time talking about my projection for the rest of the year. Normally until this the past year, we would have done a forecast in May. So, I'm going to do a kind of a
068mini forecast because the forecast actually is not due till August now. But I think we I want to share some things and just recognize well I'll give the caveat so we get there. So, yeartoear right now we're 177 true cash days which is excellent. I wish we could operate there all the time. Um our revenue for the year is 1.2% 2% over last year and our expenses are down almost 3%. And people go, "Oh, only 3%." That's 2.3 million. >> Oh, >> okay. So, those percentages seems that at 1.9 1.2% in revenue is about $800,000. So, they're small percentages, but they're big big dollars. When you have a budget like we do, that's that's what's going to happen. Um, so we're we're on my we don't get all my special effects and I have my
069PowerPoint using the the PDF. Okay. So, this is going to be a little more little more difficult to show, but it's it's okay. >> No, no, it's all right. I this this group is can focus. I know they can. Um, over on the left hand side, the first green highlighted area is the current forecast. It was updated in February and at that time, you know, I was forecasting to end the year favorable at almost $44,000. Looking at the last two months of the year and, you know, being a little bit gunshy about updating things too early, I'm projecting that we're going to end the fiscal year $3 million positive. Okay. Now, some that's that's good and bad. It's good for the district. It's obviously I would my like my forecasting to be tighter than that,
070but I'm going to take it. Hopefully hopefully you're okay with that too >> because the numbers are going the right way. >> Well, and you'll see it's important. It's it it's an important change not just for this year but for you know as we look forward. So if we move down I'm going just focus on the top on the talk about the revenue. So the revenues is um the variance is almost $800,768,000. I want you to look if you can I know it's kind of small look at the top line real estate taxes positive 610,000 and if you go down 2/3 state share local property taxes see a negative of 536,000. What's important there is to look at the two numbers together because what h how we forecast property tax collections I look at our
071valuations look at our millillage that estimates our total taxes and then I subtract off the discounts. So in this C case, we end up slightly if you if you take those two numbers, we end up positive about $70,000 net on and and what happens is I just overestimated the amount of discounts that we get in this community. We have a relatively low amount of homestead discounts in Parisburg, which means our seniors don't qualify or not applying for it. Chances are their incomes are too high. And so, you know, if if I was advising our state reps, if they would ask me if they really want to give relief, that's the area to look at, right? Is that is those qualifications. So, those two. So, um, public utilities were down 123,000. Again, that one's always a
072I hate to be this unscientific, but a crapshoot. I'm just trying to estimate their depreciation. That's pipeline, which we don't have very much of, but it's it's substations for power, power lines, all those things. And public utilities is some ways the best because they're taxed at full rate. There's no discounts on them. So, that's actually we just don't have very much in this community at this point. Income tax, this was the pleasant surprise. I had kind of um after the first three income tax receipts, the trend was trending a little bit lower than expected and it actually came in well above expectation at this point. I've not updated the forecast for is based on this one. I'm still staying somewhat bearish, but just and we'll talk about that come August on the forecast. Our unrestricted
073state aid is down 200,000 233,000 mainly because our enrollment's down. and our unrestricted state aid. This one is kind of we don't know for yet because we don't know what the payout on threshold cost is going to be. We submitted $3.4 million. We don't know. We won't get obviously in the past we've gotten 26 27%. I don't think we'll get that much because I think we'll exceed the cap. I'm hoping we get 20% which would be $680 $700,000 and and and so in a couple weeks check out my finance school finance explained. I'm going to talk just about special ed and that's a big one there. Um too bad Rachel's not here to hear the preview. And then the last item there is all other and our our our interest earnings are higher than expected
074because our cash balance is higher and plus interest rates have stayed up a year ago. We did not expect interest rates to stay up like this. Um, you know, the hope the promises for the economy was that inflation was going to drop in interest rates would drop and it's not happened and it's and it doesn't look like it's going to happen for foreseeable future. Any questions on the revenue? Okay. The expense side, and this is obviously where the big savings are, and some of this is onetime money, and and some of it's going to carry through to future years, but obviously the big two pieces are salaries and benefits, and some of that is unfilled positions. you know, we we've had um classified staff positions that have gone unfilled or partially filled. You know, the
075the maintenance director, you know, leaving all those kind of things have been somewhat one-time savings and and some of it is just has been some good controls. Purchase services, most of that's been driven by instructional spending. We've not just we've not spent the money that we thought we would. instructional supply spending is down, which is good. It's, you know, I think the buildings I I really appreciate our administrators. We have these conversations all the time. We're going to budget what you think you need. If you don't need it, it's okay not to spend it, but I'm not going to penalize you in the next budget. We'll have those conversations. You know, it's one of those things. It's really important to me. We break the mentality of you, you know, if you don't spend it, you
076lose it. We don't we don't want that. If we don't need it this year, it doesn't mean we won't need it next year, but let's have that conversation. Capital outlay. I' I've taken that down. James not James has been doing using the PI funds and so it's really reduced the Frank sidewalks will probably pay out of general fund. I know we've had some discussions finance about the proper use of that uh general fund. And I can tell you right now, for example, James and I are having some of these conversations. For example, we spend um $70,000 a year on PI for instruments. We're next year we're going to shift that to general fund, but then shift some of my building maintenance into PI. That's something that that's just between, you know, James and I negotiating
077the budgets. So, this kind of, you know, that's input from the board members. It's it's something that was there before James and I got got here. We don't, you know, I don't know how it got there, but it's been a a practice of the district to spend some PI money on um band and orchestra instruments, primarily the high cost things like souafones and that kind of thing. And then if you look at all other expenses, our knock on wood, our legal expenses are down significantly this year. That's the that's the biggest driver. The biggest portion of by the way of the all other are is tax collection fees. So if you look at you know um $646,000 in other expenses, probably over 500,000 of it is in tax collection fees. So stuff that we have
078we have no control over and those go up as collections go up. The last number on here circled at the bottom is a $24,000 per day. That's what it costs to run the district. Last year's Num, and that's less than what we budgeted for this year, but last year's number was $28,000. So, we're we're down $4,000 a day year-over-year. Again, a reflection of the cost reduction efforts and continue to watch the, you know, doing cost control. And I will editorialize a little bit. We had a great presentation about career readiness. Those are type of programs that were at risk if we didn't pass levies. >> So, >> you see that work and you realize we can do that and continue to do that because of community support. Any questions on on this? So, there's the
079short term. We end the year positive 3 million, but really the question is what does it do for us down the road? All right. So again, really busy. The top part of this is the February forecast and I've highlighted in the middle there excess of revenues and if you can read it from there two 2026 we were projected ended at about 44,000. Next year 40 460,000 and then we go into deficit spending. The bottom line is in fiscal year 2030, which we couldn't. It just couldn't happen. But we projected to end that year with a negative cash balance of 6.5 million. That can't happen, right? We'd have we'd have to resolve that before that. We'd be in we'd be in fiscal emergency and all the bad things that happen with that with these May projections.
080Now, I'm going to caution here a little bit is I'm still working on the the for budget for next year. So, this is not would not be final, but I think the order of magnitude is the right direction. We're going to end the year 2.8 million favorable next year 1.5 million and we're still deficit spending start in year 2028. But look at the bottom line is we're 2.7 million positive. Not great, but that's a $10 million swing. That just tells you the impact of saving a dollar today and the impact down the road. So every dollar. So when we had these conversations starting two years ago about what should be reduced, if you reduce it earlier, you can reduce smaller amounts. That's why we talked about having reductions even though we still had a cash
081balance wanting to have reductions because you could take smaller amounts now rather if you wait you got to take you have to cut you have to cut more if that makes sense. So that this illustrates that very care very clearly. So, I'm excited about where we're ending the year. Our our administrators have did a good job being mindful of of the budget stuff. We are working on the, you know, working on the budget for next year, you know, and I will say something's come up just and I'll talk about finance probably more. We talked about built in here is going to be probably some increased contributions to severance. This year is going to be huge. And then Don and I are reviewing the potential retirees for next year. We could have two really, really big
082years in a row. You know, we're putting $300,000 a in a year or have been for severance. This year is going to be well over $700,000 in severance. Next year could be about the same unex, you know, somewhat unexpectedly. >> How much is in the seance account? >> It's about right now we're we're we're good for this year. We may have to do our transfer next year, not wait till May to get us through some retirements that we have coming up after July 1st, but we we're good right now. And I projected to increase that um next year's contribution to $500,000. I still want to work through the forecast on that fund and work it through finance first, but I just want to kind of give you a heads up that the retirements think I
083always think about this way. Typically with our retirements, if we have a highly experienced teacher retire and we bring in a teacher at low levels of years, the first year is a break even because we've had to pay for the severance. That difference pays for the severance in that first year. You then you start seeing savings in the following years, if that makes sense. So, if we have to if we've if we've got plans for putting in $200 extra thousand dollar into the severance fund next year, where's that $200,000 coming from? >> Out of general fund. >> It's and I've built I've started building that after last time finance talked about it. I built that into the forecast already. It may not be enough though. I'm just concerned until I plug because I didn't have
084next year's projections. I had a guess, but really not. Don, like I said, Don does a great job of giving me a list of everyone who could go >> and I can It's not going to be everyone who's going to go, but that list is is long. >> Okay. So, it it just >> Do we need to warn Brad? I mean, is he aware of this? >> Well, it it it's a you know, it's a it's a double-edged sword, right? we're going to lose experienced teachers, >> you know, and it's a one-time expense out of the district and we're bringing bringing some young talent and, you know, and so it's in the in the end it's it's good for everyone, but just the short it's going to be some short-term, you know, short-term pain. I'm
085not I'm not I'm not worried about it unless we don't think we can attract any talent. But I think I think this this round of hiring from what I'm being told is affirms that we're attracting good people. >> Yeah. >> So, any questions on that? Okay. Well, I appreciate the the time. I think again, it's a good it's a good message and it's been a team effort and I wish I could put my it's not one any single thing. It's been a bunch of good things that have lined up to have us end the year really well. So, >> all right. Um, >> okay. Um, do we have any additional things from the finance committee or did you kind of combine 81 and 82 together? >> Well, 8 82 >> 82 is what we need
086to approve. >> 81 was my present. 82 is the actual finance report that has the you know whatever how many pages that is of all the numbers. So I would I'm guessing the board prefer not we go through that report. So that's why I don't do it. >> Okay. >> I I I count on the board to review it and and I know Miss Roland Miller has and give me feedback and stuff. So >> Okay. Um do you want to get that approved before we go into the finance committee? me it's or does the finance committee have anything that you want to say about 8.2 first? >> Nothing on 8.2. I'll make a motion to approve the financial report for April 26 as presented. >> I'll second it. >> All right. >> Who second? >>
087Any any thought? >> Yeah. Any comments, questions? All right. Hearing none. Roll call. Mr. Dur. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer. Yes. >> Okay. Finance committee, it's on you. >> So, I think uh there is more extensive minutes than perhaps if you haven't looked at them yet, I'd encourage you to do so. We had a um discussion kind of around the the question of what is it that we need to discuss? What do we need to decide? And starting to lay out a plan for that. you know, do we need to be on the ballot in November of 28 because we don't want to keep spending all of our cash reserves, but we at least with the,
088you know, the $3 million, um, thanks to some good savings and a, you know, I like all that interest income in particular. Uh, so that those are the kind of questions and so you'll see, uh, Randy dragged his whiteboard down here so that we could play on that. >> Um, some of our notes from that. I also saw that there is um some of the pages that follow that is that we wanted to start getting our head around the income tax and right now we have the traditional tax uh income tax taking a look at the earned which is what we'll be covering in June but there's some information there about the different districts and what income taxes they are collecting. I will note that in reading through that list, there's almost none of our
089comparables. Um, just a lot more rural, but we'll be taking a look at that in June. We really want to make sure that the public understands everything that's available out there for us, avenues for taxing for our income that we need for our schools. So, that's we'll be that'll be um kind of setting us up for next month. Uh I want to note that uh we all received an email that the the audit has been posted with the um auditor of state. So that's and it's a great report once again. So we thank uh Mr. Drewer and all everyone in the finance team for making that report so easy to read and not having to worry about anything afterwards. Uh, and I just want to highlight the the videos. Um, continue to highlight those and
090and thanks to to Rachel, to Randy for everyone who's putting those together, Katie. Uh, because I do think if people want to take the time to learn about them. They're great resources and you can watch the videos. I tend to read transcripts because I don't really watch videos. No offense. Um, >> I would do the same, >> but just Yeah, >> especially if it's me. >> They're they're out there. So, um I think that's a great resource as again we, as Laura pointed out, really trying to make sure that we're educating so that we can have good conversations over the next year or two about the direction we want to go for our revenue streams. >> Yeah, I think the this week is on income tax, then next week is on base costs, then we're
091teeing up to talk about the categoricals and then um special ed. And then we're going to c circle back again to Miss Haywood's list and see how we're doing against that and and see, you know, see where we stand. So, you know, we've not got we've got a couple of questions along the way, but questions from help us Rachel and I decide what what to cover. And >> for anybody who's listening or watching, if you're wondering what we're talking about, um Mr. Drew kind of maybe taking a a step out of Dr. Anstat's book is doing Facebook lives on finance and they're they're not long. They're I think the longest one I saw was 11 and some odd seconds. Uh 11 minutes and seven and a few seconds. And they're they're topical. They're easy to
092understand. Um, and you can find those if you go to our web page and on the tabs along the side. Go to where it says transparency. Click on that tab and then you'll see a whole list of topics that um are for transparency reasons. It's under school finance or school. It's school something which is how why I didn't find it. So, it's like number 14 down the list, but that will give you the collection of all of these videos and you can do what I did over the weekend and you can binge watch them. Um, they're Randy, they they really are extraordinary. They are very very good. And as someone who this is not their forte, it's not their comfort zone to talk about it. Um, I think they're absolutely fantastic. And uh I encourage
093everybody to take a look at those. Um the I had a question about your um discussion sheet here, your brainstorm. Um are these the things that you're intending to talk about at our regular regular session? Right, Dr. Anststead, for the financial focus. That's the regular meeting in June, right? >> It's not the work session. work session. >> It'll be the work session. >> The work session is going to be focused just on the income tax piece. That's why there's so much more detail there. We talked about what kind of pieces of information does the board need to know and wrap their mind around as because as as Missy pointed out, there are options out there, but we got we want everyone to understand the full ramifications of what those options are. Sometimes they sound they
094sound good. >> They create great sound bites, but is that is that the direction the board wants? It seems to me, especially in listening to your videos, that like you say, one thing might sound really good, but what the one hand giveth, the other hand taketh away. And so to me, what I envisioned in my head was either either I don't know how you would present this possibly as a chart or a table that if you do this, then this happens, but if you do this, then that happens. And so it's kind of the ying and yang of the whole situation. If that if there's a way to be able to lay that out for us and for the community, I think that would be really helpful because I get I get lost in the
095verbiage and the numbers and and I can certainly, you know, I'd sit there and think, oh yeah, earned income tax, that sounds great, but there's always a but. And I I want to understand what those butts are and what that translates into actual money as compared to a traditional tax. Um so that we can so that we can really balance where we're going to go next because you do see a lot of people going um well I'm kind of jumping ahead to what I've got in the discussion but that's something that I'm kind of concerned about in making these next decisions. I would like to point out that we did talk about making actual examples with figures so everyone could see exactly how they translate out not just the theory of how it goes but
096then how this would look for each of the scenarios that we have. I think that would be really helpful >> as as well as and I think what you're getting at is, you know, earned income tax sounds great or an income tax sounds great until you realize that businesses, corporations in particular are not going to be paying anything towards that. So, um it's a question it it's just like it is at the state level. Where does where's the partnership and where does that land? So that's all that's all not only those real real numbers that we can take a look at and compare, but then who's not paying in um that makes it harder for others. >> Is that something that you you're able to track, Randy? like businesses and people who aren't residential, how
097much is in that bucket and how much is in agricultural and residential and how much is in that bucket. Does it get that simple? >> Yes, it is that simple. For example, >> I like that. >> Our total property tax collection is about 53 million. 6 and a.5 million of that is business in in commercial industrial. So, it's non-residential agriculture. So the point So just put that in perspective. >> Six and a half million. >> So right that's that that's the number you have to work with that's divided in this community between residential class one and class two property tax. >> Wow. And and didn't you say in your video that that's not the same in every district? Like in in Rosford it's like 5050. >> Rosford's closer to 5050. >> Ouch. Okay. All right.
098Well, there you have it. Any other questions or discussion? >> I think I saw it in a couple places. Are we going to talk about the workers comp in another agenda item? I just was a little confused by that piece. >> Oh, there was just I'm just g finance committee. It'll I think it's on next be on next month's agenda. We are in a group retro rating in 2025. So, this is last year. And think of a group retro is we're in a group of other schools and and and we assume a certain claims rate based on our group. Our group's claims rate was higher than expected and so our claim total claims was more than what our total premiums paid. So each of us got a ante up the difference. >> We we still
099we get a discount for being in the program. So that took care of part of our discount. And so every year that's probably that's that's the risk of being a group retro. You you save money up front with the hope that your performance pays you back. >> Anything else? All right. Thank you, finance committee. Nicely done. Um look forward to learning more about this and getting more comfortable with it as time goes on. Um, that puts us to 9.1 board committees. Anything from student achievement? >> Yes, we met on May 8th. Um, Laura joined this time because Denise was out and we heard all about the curricular review process and we got to look at the handbook and kind of see where we are with each subject. Um, oops, with each content area. And um
100it was a a really really interesting overview of the amount of work that is going into ensuring that we are doing what is best for students and utilizing curriculum and best practices to make sure that we're teaching kids in the most appropriate way. Um and so there are kind of four layers to this. At first, uh they take stock of what we do, what we do well, what we need to work on. Um then we chart the course. Uh we're making plans, we're making decisions. And then step three, we're actually implementing the new curriculum or whatever the case may be. And then step four is that monitor and review process. We go back, we review, is it working, is it not, where do we need to make changes or whatever, you know, the case may
101be. So, um, it was really interesting to hear. There are a lot of people that go into these different teams for each subject area and each grade level and just so many people who are putting in the time to really ensure that we are doing um, good work with our students. So, that was really, really helpful. Um, and then we looked at a couple of different updates with our gifted um, services for our kiddos in grades K through or I'm sorry, four through eight. We are having teachers take some training um, courses and it will be 60 hours over four years, but that will allow us to bring gifted services in a different way but back to our students. Um, and so this will be inclusionary so it will happen in the classroom. It will
102not be pull out. Um, but it allows us to get back to Weep's, um, looking at, you know, those education plans for our gifted students. Um, and we'll be bringing Dr. Billings on at 50% again next year. So, we'll be able to get his support with that. Um, which was good news. And then we did talk about there is a new state mandate out for reading instructors um, about reading diagnostics, which are essentially the reading assessments all kids take to see where they're at in terms of their reading abilities and skills. um they are they have dropped the level of approved um diagnostics. So we are going to be utilizing star CBM now um in our K through three uh which means that our students will have a oneto-one diagnostic um with an educator uh
103an interventions um the reading intervention um teachers, reading tutors, things like that. Um and that has to happen three times a year and that's going to take about 10 minutes per student. So this is a really really big lift. Um historically those you know were done um online and is that that is that correct? That's correct. >> Yeah. >> Both ways. Um and so now moving to this full need and need situation. It it will take time. Um and so in the fall we'll have reading tutors and intervention specialists implementing those with our kiddos. And in the winter we're going to start moving into having classroom teachers support with that. um with our kindergarteners. These are really important. This is where we test for dyslexia. And so we want to make sure that we have
104people who are really comfortable with these diagnostics um giving them. And so um we're still figuring out what that will look like for the final one in the spring. But um just understanding that this is a big lift for our educators. 10 minutes per kiddo to, you know, find out what I would say is the most important information that we can find out about our kids in kindergarten. Um is how they understand their reading um or their sounds. uh it's really important and I think it's a valuable uh use of time but it will alter some classroom days. Um so knowing that that is coming obviously that 10 minutes will lessen each year uh for the kids as they progress through because there are less diagnostics as they get older. Um and that also then
105means that jacket jumpst start there will not be these diagnostic assessments any longer. Um they'll still do the kindergarten readiness but the diagnostics will be saved um because we can do them later in the year. um I think it's by September sometime um that they would have to be completed for each kiddo. So um we talked about the new teacher orientation and we got to see a sneak peek at the schedule for that. Um and that will take place on Monday, August 3rd and I will be sending out an email to Mike to see if we would be able to come and just introduce ourselves to the new staff. Um I think it would be really beneficial for them to see us early on. And so, um, I asked Brett and Joe and they recommended
106emailing Mike to see if we can get that on the schedule. Um, and I think that is it. Laura, did you have anything else? >> You covered it all very well. >> Thank you. So, >> did you get somebody to cover you for when you're gone on vacation? >> So, I talked to Well, so Susan responded back and said that with board committees, we can reschedu those. Um, so I was going to email and see I was going to talk to Denise and see if that date worked. Um, but otherwise I will take you up on your offer. >> Okay. >> So I will let you know. >> Just keep me posted. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. Um, community engagement >> tomorrow. >> You meet tomorrow. >> Okay. All right. Um, and policy.
107>> I got my notes. >> Go for it. So, three of the items are on our agenda in item 15. I can go through them if you guys want me to or if you've already for first read. So, we're just accepting for first read. >> Yeah. Um there's uh three policies where we're updating um just a little bit of the verbiage. Uh for policy 1231, um we're adding the text that's already there for classified and certified employees into the administrative section um on on campaigning on on on school property. Um and then for policy 2461 and 7530.02, 02. Um, we're adding um a note about um needing uh prior approval uh for recordings, right? Did I word that properly? Um and then we did discuss multiple others, but uh Susan and I had questions and
108so those are not on the agenda for uh this meeting and we will get more information before they get added on. Oh, and next meeting we're going to review the I don't know how to say it properly, zero and 100 or 000 and 0 1 0 0. I don't know how to word it properly, but we're going to start reviewing those at our next meeting. >> Okay. Um I did have a question about um 2461. I I mean I I just looked at that policy by itself, you know, just like you don't take a phrase out of the Bible and think that that's the gospel. You got to read everything around it as well. And I'm I could be doing the same thing here because it said video recording of any district meeting is strictly
109prohibited. There were a lot of recording things going on today. This is a district meeting. So is is that particular policy somewhere above it referring to only private meetings between a parent and a or it I see a couple of heads shaking. Okay. Because I thought >> we discussed this in the meeting as well. Yeah. This is a public meeting. So it's different. >> Not a district meeting. This is a public meeting. >> This is a public meeting. Oh, okay. And you can't, correct me if I'm wrong, Dr. Anson, you can't prohibit recording devices for public meetings, >> right? Well, that's where my confusion was, but there's So, a district meeting would be one that's considered more confidential. >> It's just not public >> or something like that. >> It's just not public. >> It's
110just not >> I think the student information shared during it would be the confidential part. >> Okay. All right. That's See, I figured there had to be a bigger story around that one singular policy. Okay. All right. Well, that's good. Any other questions or comments? Okie dokie. Let me get back to where we were. Look at us scooting through all this stuff. All right. So we have finished 9.1 and we are entering into the consent agenda. Do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? >> So move >> Laura >> Second. Susan. Is there are there any questions, comments, concerns, changes? Um Dr. Anset, did you want to talk about anything in there with retirements or anything? >> No. >> Okay. All right. Well, hearing none, then I'm looking for a motion. Or no,
111we already had that. Uh, >> Roll call. Yes. I'll spit it out. Thank you. >> All right. Miss Minkkey. >> Yes. >> Miss Roland Miller? >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood? >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips? >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. >> All right. Let me scoot down past this this this and it takes us to 16.1 that I was referring to earlier. Um, and we can do these. Let's just keep it in the format that it's already in rather than reinventing the wheel. Do I have a motion to approve 161, please? >> Moved, >> Denise. >> Second, >> Susan. Second. >> We kind of discussed this a little bit earlier as I gave you the preview of this coming up. Are there any further questions or comments? Hearing none. Roll call. Mr. Jurer. >>
112Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. Miss Haywood, >> yes. >> Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. >> Moving on to 162 again. Already I I feel like I did the spoiler alert, you know, at the beginning. Uh, any questions or comments about this? We got it. >> Make the motion to approve the creation of the executive director of business operations grade 313 is presented. >> Okay. Second. Second, Miss Casey. Uh, >> roll call. Mr. Jury, >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. >> Miss Haywood, >> yes. >> Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Miss Phillips, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. >> Um, I would like to make a a comment on this. I know it people are probably wondering why this is being done. This is um due
113to somebody who left a position and we looked at reworking um what was left in the operations realm to basically save money on this. And Randy, what's the number that we are saving on this? We're gonna save close to $100,000 by >> and I mean >> that's just Yeah, >> for those of you who've um attended operations, you can see how well James runs that. He's very precise. He's got diagrams and spreadsheets galore on mapping everything out over time. Um, I I feel confident in him carrying on with the two positions. Um, he showed us more than enough that he's he's capable of doing this. >> I couldn't agree more. Um, >> I'd like to move 16.3 as presented for the hiring of Jame James Mapis as the executive director of business operations. I >>
114hear a second. >> Second, >> Denise. Roll call. Mr. Juror. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky? Yes. Miss Haywood? Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. >> Okay. 164 is the um the land donation that Randy had written to us about. >> There's just one correction there that we should point out is I in the in the resolution I had put HBI. It's actually Fort Megs property. Okay. So, just the the documents are correct. My wording in the resolution was incorrect. So, it's Fort Megs. >> Okay. >> And thank you for Miss Rolla Miller for pointing that out. >> I like maps. >> Um, >> all right. >> The map showed it. It's the stretch along uh Fort Migs just south of Echel Junction. >> And M Mr.
115Mapis is very happy to do this because it's a little bit less that we don't have to mow and then we don't have in the liability that path then we have we won't have any. >> That's what pleased me about it. Yeah. Uh okay. Well, we kind of had discussion beforehand. Do I have a motion to to approve 164? >> So moved. Okay, Casey and second. >> Second. >> Oh, it's it's a battle. >> No, Laura. >> Okay. All right. >> You got it. >> That's right. Laura got it. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> Any further discussion? Hearing none. Roll call. Mr. Durer. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky? >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips? >> Yes. >> Miss Roland Miller? >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. We have no public comments, so
116we can move on to 18. >> Can Can I just a segue because I think originally I thought it was for HPI and I was pretty excited about that. Uh, I was driving south on Hall Prairie um last week at about 7:30 in the morning and I passed four students walking on Whole Prairie Road on the east side to walk to school. >> Oh, so they're walking on the wrong side of the street. >> They're they're walking on Whole Prairie whilst I'm I'm commuting to work. I mean it it was it was alarming to me. Where are we on it's I know it's not on us but where are where is the city where is the developer on on creating that path for those students? Do we know? >> Okay. >> I do not have
117an update but I'll get one. >> Yeah. When I figured out this wasn't for HPI, I got very disappointed. >> I was the same. I was very excited because I had my kid was there the first year HPI was open and it was It It's not a great It's not a great environment for kids to be walking for sure or riding bikes. It would be nice to see a path. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um I'm going to jump in and start with the um board discussion. And I included um a video from OSBA the on the attachment the um link to it is right up at the very top. Um and if the notes are bad I I have admitted these are my notes. Um this was an excellent video kind of a long still
118again the mindset of what Ry's videos are doing. Um, this one was definitely leaning more towards looking at finance and financials in regard to what happened with the primaries around the state, not just here, but around the state. And uh, Dr. Fleeter was the main speaker with Nicole Piscatani who's the uh legislative um assistant director of OSBA. And so the the two of them were the speaker. Scott Gerffin was the moderator. And so I tried to take notes so that if you read them and you didn't want to listen to the video, which isn't very long, I think it's 28 minutes. um it could give you a real good gist of what their inter interpretation and impressions of the statewide um results were. And it kind of touches on our our decisions that we're going
119to have to make uh as we enter into the the next fis fiscal cliff of 2928 or 2930. Um and what will our choices be? I think the people putting levies on at this particular time really had a hard choice to make because what's going to happen with the with the with the property tax movement. Um so people that had property taxes are renewing things. It it was a very it was a very interesting analysis. So if you don't want to listen to the whole video I think you can watch the watch you can read the notes. Um, but the video was very was very well done. Um, and I would encourage our our audience to just take a look at it. And again, I'm going to plug Ry's videos because the world of finance
120is being very nicely explained by him. Um, okay. So, we have one kind of Casey, I'm going to kind of throw it over to you so that we can talk about your calendar and what you've learned about the evaluations and where those stand right now. Okay. So, I sent out a tentative rough draft of the treasures evaluation um in order to get some feedback and um ideally we would be able to implement that with Randy this year um even if just as a trial run to see how things go, how it rolls out. if anyone has suggestions um that would be ideal and then otherwise we will get started in um at some point in probably August we'll want to have a first sit down with both Randy and um Mike and set goals and
121talk about expectations um look at that um evaluation that we have created um so that they know what they're being evaluated on um but they are just following the standards stated by the state for each of the roles um and then we would do a midyear in either December or January. I think it kind of depends on the schedules um with that midyear. Um if we want to do it before break or after um where we would check in, make sure we're working towards those goals, see how we feel, do we need to change anything, have things come up that have, you know, altered the course and then we would meet again in May to have that final evaluation where we are um kind of doing the final evaluation component um and I don't want
122to say scoring, but giving that final information to them. Um, and so I haven't heard anything back about the treasures evaluation yet, um, and the superintendent's evaluation. Katie just gave me some new language, um, from the state. And so I want to go back and make those edits to make sure that it's reflective of the standards of the state. Um, and then I will get that out to you all this week so that we can make sure that we're in a good place to get that started um with Randy some point this summer and then with um both Mike and Randy right away in in August or September. >> There's a webinar that um I'm just gonna say Casey is not going to be able to do it because I mean I know you're a
123supergirl but gee whiz that's a lot to ask the night before you're leaving for a European vacation. So there's a a web on the superintendent evaluation changes. Um, and I will be attending that. So, we'll continue to work on this. That what we're learning is is how important a strategic plan, a welldone strategic plan kind of drives um the evaluation forms and process that they really work handin glove. they're not two separate entities. Um, and this is something that Mike is very very familiar with and in working on. So, this is going to be a process as we don't really have either one to to the level that this board I am I am sure wants it to be at. So, we are going to be taking giant baby steps and getting this accomplished and
124worked on. Um, and and it's, you know, we don't want to Katie's giving us guidance, yet we don't want to burden her with that because it's going to be Mike's game show. So, we're kind of Casey's done a great job in developing that evaluation form thus far and um it's a good It's a good start. I happen to find one of the evaluation forms. I don't know if it's one that I sent you. I delued Casey with a bunch of the stuff that I had. Um, and so there's there's things about it that I like. The other ones very detailed and and so take a look at that because we did send that out. Um, but there's there's going to be a lot of work in this. This isn't just make up a form and
125send it out. There's there's a lot going on in this >> and I think at this point it's very much going to be let's do it and see how it goes so that we can start having those conversations with with with Randy and Mike. Um and so >> the current format as you like we met over it and you've actually shifted it back to exactly the same format that we used last year. So, I I do want to say it's not we we've used pretty much that format before the questions what we evaluated him um Randy on last year. So, I I I do think we're getting more organized. We're setting out a clearer schedule that we really do need to stick to this time. Um but I I don't I do want to acknowledge
126that we have done the evaluation in the past. So, I I want to make sure we put that on the record. And my dear, what about work session? Changing the work sessions. I told everybody they're supposed to bring your calendars with them tonight. So, do you do we want to take a look at that? See if we can get that worked out for you. Um the issue being that especially during school um work sessions during >> dressing breakfast and racing to the bus. >> Sue, are you on? >> No, I'm sorry. You did. I just got scolded. Um that's my fault because I didn't put my mic down. That's usually what I do when I turn it off. Um is is just it's just too much because her husband's not home uh a lot during
127school time to help with buses so or to help with getting ready in the morning. So, um do you have a time that you want to throw out? Do you want is there something that you want to suggest now that you know what your fall and spring schedule is? >> Yes. I I mean I could do almost any other time than that bus loading 8:45 time. Like I can make anything else work. It's just I have to get my kids on the bus at 8:45. Um and so I mean even a 9:00 like right after that I can be here by then. Um, it's just that that elementary bus pickup time is I'm kind of I'm stuck with it because he has to be at his corporate job at Okay. All right, members, start throwing
128out some ideas. >> Well, I mean, we did agree that we would stay with the first Wednesday through the summer, so we're good through August. It's a question in September then. >> Yes. >> Well, that was talked about. We haven't really agreed on anything because Casey wasn't here when we were going to talk about it. So, what it was that was an idea. So, do you want to keep >> Yeah. So, the summer is fine. I'll be able to make that work. Um, it would just be starting in in that September meeting. Okay. It wouldn't even be August. It would be September. >> Okay. All right. So, um I'm I'm good with >> And is this is this another could we send out like the doodles, right, where we send out some times and see
129what works. >> I think we have to talk through it. I mean, and my suggestion, I'm just going to throw it out, would be to move it to the first Tuesday at six o'clock. >> I cannot do Tuesday evenings. >> Tuesday? >> Yeah. And that that's going to be hard for Casey, too, because she's got Don't you have a class? >> Yeah, but that that's not a concern. >> Oh, I was just working it off since this is a Tuesday that Tuesdays might work for people, >> but then that would give you two Tuesdays that you would have to leave class early. >> Yeah. >> Okay. >> This course is different. So, there are several meetings where we don't hold in person session. So, I don't think that that is a concern. >> Okay. work
130with Labor Day, but what about the first Monday of the month? We'd have to move the Labor Day one >> or the first Wednesday. I'd like to I think it makes sense to keep it on the first week to keep it two weeks away from the regular meeting. >> I agree. >> And it sounds like we'd have to move to the evening. >> Mondays work well for me. Monday fine. >> Mondays are okay with you. Okay. All right. I'm not going to breathe, Laura. That's fine. Yeah, >> Susan. >> So, we would move to the 14th of September and then we would move back up to the first Monday starting in October through the rest of the year. >> Sessions September. >> So, we'll just put that as a motion at a future meeting to
131>> that would be the date before the meeting. Is that what we're looking at with the work session for September? We'd be meeting two evenings in a row. two Mondays in a row. >> Monday and Tuesday, right? Because it's in our regular board meeting. >> Oh, because the 15th because the way the month falls. Okay, that doesn't make sense. >> Okay. Well, that uh would we Well, there's one, two, three, four, five Tuesdays in September. So, we What What if we moved the board meeting regular meeting in September to the 22nd? Or we could What about meeting Wednesday night the second? >> Wednesday night the second works >> for me. >> Oh, okay. >> Wednesday night the 2nd instead of going down to the 14th because we're conflicting with the regular meeting. >> Yeah. >>
132Okay. Uh Susan, >> dang. All right. So we've got Wednesday, September 2nd will be the first work session and then thereafter uh the next one would be October 5th and then December >> November 2nd >> November sorry would be November 2nd and then December would be the 7th and these would all be at six o'clock. >> Yep. >> And this time I'm not going to ask Dr. Anstead if that conflicts with her schedule. Moving forward, I something to think about for next year is to re-evaluate whether we need every single work session every month. and um if we do think that that that is the case to already have it planned out what we're addressing those work sessions because there's a lot of things I think that happen during work sessions that can wait to
133until the monthly meeting um because we do give both our superintendent and our treasurer power to make decisions until until we have um our next monthly I think we've been doing that pretty much. I mean, we we were talking about not having a July meeting. And then what was it, Brooke, that you had in the um in the buzz that would be discussed during the July meeting? I remember it being there. I said, "Oh, well, there goes our July meeting." >> Second calendar reading. You're right. That's what it is. So would that be something that we could do during a work session or >> Y >> sometime in July? Okay. >> Okay. >> And without a levy on the ballot in the fall, that'll make a big difference for you. Um it'll depend on when
134Mike and all of you jump into strategic planning. All of that all of that will be taken into account when he gets here. But that's a good idea to have a calendar. I mean, we've had a calendar all year, but you never you never know. There's no sense in having a meeting for the sake of having a meeting, >> right? >> So, >> yeah. Uh I I know many years that I've been here, we've not had July work sessions. We've always had a regular meeting every time, but we've not necessarily had a July work session. So >> may have to approve personnel. We'll just have to see what we have in July. >> Yeah. Okay. >> We'll just have to >> And last year we moved it into a retreat. >> Yeah. >> We just
135we slid it three days to a retreat. >> Okay. Okay. Speaking of which, the retreat is June 27th, so be sure that that's on your calendars. Um do we have an agenda for that yet? >> No, I've not I've not heard. Um, I haven't >> I I contacted him the one time and I haven't heard anything further, but I can certainly check with them tomorrow. It's been over a week, two weeks maybe even, and I can check with him and see how they're coming along on that, what they might need from us. Okay. Um, do we have anything else for the good of the order? I was just going to share um I brought >> the fourth grade book that um PSF provided a grant to the fourth graders at Fort Megs and they were
136able to take their survival stories. Um they read Hatchet. They did a lot of work with survival. Um and they each wrote a story and drew a picture and they compiled it into a book and then we had a signing party with our students at the gym. So I did bring it so you guys can take a look at it. It is adorable. It's so cute. Um, and the kids were so proud of themselves. So, I thought I would share it. Um, and huge thank you to PSF because the kids were so excited to bring this book home and to be considered authors. >> Yes. So, is was that just for Fort Megs? It wasn't across the district. >> Yes. I believe uh the fourth grade teachers wrote um they had those grants at the
137end of the year for field trips and things and um the fourth grade teachers wrote a grant and so the four Fort Megs fourth graders um did this. So, >> oh, I think that should be a district-wide thing, couldn't it? Wouldn't that be kind of a cool thing at the end of the year? >> They saw that as a kind of a seed project and they'd like to see it expand to the other elementaryaries. >> When my kids were at Woodland, we had a young author's program and each kid wrote their own book and we had a signing event and it was it was the kids really enjoyed it. >> See, it's a it's another great out of the box thinking idea to do. I think that would be really a really fun presentation um
138for the community to see these kids and maybe do it over at the library, you know. It's just really cool. Just very cool. All right. Um I'm not Oh, if you're wondering about my little bee ears, that was from the ELLL um uh end of year party that they had over at the Heights. that was very very well attended. Lots of food, lots of fun, lots of people running around and lots of funny little crafts and everything. And so we made these and we had you could you could adopt a bee. This is precious. Um but just they've been doing these endofear parties um for a few years now for the ELLL students and it it was just really a neat a very very neat event. So that's that's why that's there in honor of
139their um final thingamajiggy. Okay. Anything else? How we doing? All right. Do I have Wait a minute. It's on my calendar. Let me get down to here. Get on to the right thing. Come on. There we go. Um, do I have a motion to approve to enter into exe executive session for the purpose of discussing the appointment promotion or compensation of specific employees or officials? >> So moved. >> Miss Casey. >> Second. >> Laura. Um, roll call. Mr. Jurer. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Miss Phillips. >> Yes. Miss Lmer. >> Yes. And for the audience, there will be no further action by the board after that. So, thank you. You're now in executive session.