Perrysburg BOE Meeting - 4/21/2026

001Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to call our meeting to order. It is 601. Um, could we have roll call, please? Mr. Drewer, >> Miss Haywood, >> here. Here. >> Here. >> Miss Minky >> here. >> Miss Phillips >> here. >> Miss Roland Miller. Miss Lmer >> here. >> If you would all join us in the pledge of allegiance. Our flag is to your right. 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 all. >> Thank you. >> Maybe I'll just put that in there. >> Ariesburg schools welcomes you all. This is such a wonderful evening. It's a big celebration of so many things tonight and I can't tell you how much it just

002warms my heart to see this room filled with so many smiles and black and gold of course, black and gold everywhere. Um, but we want to welcome you to the Commodore building and we thank you for attending tonight's board of education meeting. Uh, we care about the safety of our students, staff, families, and visitors. Please note that there are exits on both the east and west ends of the cafeteria and in case of an emergency and AED is right outside around the corner. Uh you are located at 140 East Indiana Avenue. Thank you so much for joining us tonight and spending some time with us and supporting Perryburg schools. Do I have a motion to adopt the proposed agenda, please? >> So move. >> Laura, >> second. and Denise. Any discussion hearing? None. Roll call,

003please. Mr. Durer. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer. >> Yes. >> We would now like to uh introduce Marty Rothie from OSBA Northwest Regional Manager. So, Ohio School Board Association is uh an organization that helps all the school districts in the state of Ohio. Uh there are over 600 school districts in Ohio and OSBA commonly known as is one of my favorite places to go to. We Parisburg schools is a member of OSBA and it is divided into five regions. We are in the northwest is best region. Uh no apologies to our southwest people. Um and Miss Roie over here is our director and she came all the way from Finley to do a couple presentations tonight. So Marty, I give the floor

004to you. Thank you, Sue. Um, well, Sue introduced me, so I don't have to say anything else about myself. There are a lot of impatient people here. Um, one of the joys that I get to do as a um, region manager is to uh, recognize schoolboard members who are veteran school board members. And tonight, although Mr. Bennington is not here. Um, I have a 10-year veteran school board certificate and I am hoping someone will be able to present that to him. >> I have another very special award tonight. Um, our region has special awards for um, individuals in our region, not just educators, but community members and um, support staff of teachers. Um there was an individual in your district who was nominated for our excellence award for outstanding leadership. And this award highlights organizational

005leadership recognizing that leadership occurs at all levels of the organization and community from the playground to the central office. The nominees are generated by those who work with and around the honore. And tonight, um, the, uh, Parisburg Local School District or Exempted Village School District nominated Dr. Katie Annestat for the Excellence Award for Outstanding Leadership. I would like to read the nomination. The very name Dr. Katie Anstat is synonymous with the phrase Outstanding Leadership. For example, a person at capital conference approached me whom I did not know to tell me how wonderful Katie was for Washington local schools. How she turned the district around into a positive environment and how typical it is of Katie to give up so much to help someone in need such as our district Parisburg schools and she certainly has

006done that for us. How does she accomplish this? She is extremely involved in local organizations as well as regional, state, and national boards and committees. She attends Parisburg Rotary Chamber and the Sheriff Lunchon to be connected with our community as well as helping to create new ones such as the community leaders breakfast and the Parisburg advocates for fair school funding. A strong believer in face-to-face knee to-neee conversations. She may be talking to hundreds of people, but her ability to listen then act is surpassed by no one. She was relentless in doing several events every day to help educate our community on the desperate need of our levy ask or face another $6.5 million cut. largely through her efforts and leading our levy team. It passed resoundingly after multiple previous failures. And even with a calendar

007that resembles a patchwork quilt, she still has time to mother hen, and those are her words, those that need extra tenderness, guidance, and gentle direction. Her onboarding of our two new members was indepth and thorough over many meetings so as not to overwhelm. Her compassion for colleagues is only surpassed by that for our students. Katie is the full package. Strength, confidence, compassion, teacher, student, and mother hen. It is an honor to call her our superintendent, mentor, and friend. Congratulations, Katie. I think we should all go up. Let's all go up. Come on. Here we go. like first time today. All right, we are on item 3.2. Dr. Folultz, come on up. >> All right. Good evening, everybody. Thanks for having me. It's great to see you all here to celebrate the many accomplishments of so

008many of our students. I will say that when you have this many talented students, there's always things happening all over the community that they're involved in. So, while some of our students aren't able to be here, I know they're humbled and honored to be recognized this evening. So, first, I'd like to take a moment and note that the faculty of Parisburg High School would like to acknowledge that the achievements of the class of 2026 are not solely a reflection of the work performed during the last four years and inside those four walls. The table was set for us by the hundreds of teachers and support staff throughout the district that poured their hearts into each of these young people during their precious days that they enjoyed with them. With that in mind, we invite each

009of our colleagues throughout the district to share in the joy that comes along with admiring all that our young people have accomplished and what they will move on to do in the years to come. So, with that, first, uh, would Nina and Kate please join me up at the podium? All right. Well, first it's a great pleasure that I present two very special young women to you this evening who are being recognized as the valictorian and saludiatoran for the Parisburg High School class of 2026. During their high school careers, Kate and Nina successfully completed the greatest number of AP, honors, and college level courses at the absolute highest level of achievement attainable amongst the over 430 members of this year's graduating class. This year's saludiatoran will be Nina Rando because people like numbers, you know.

010Nah will had a seventh semester cumulative GPA of 4.527 and scored a 34 on her ACT, placing her in the 99th percentile nationally. I'm with you on that. So, >> and this year's valictorian, number one in her class will be Kate Woo. >> Get ready for this, coach. So, Kate earned a cumulative GPA of a 4.664. 664 and also scored a 34 on the ACT, placing her in the 99th percentile nationally as well. >> So, we are obviously very excited to watch both young people pursue their next steps as Nita plans to attend the Ohio State University while Kate will be enrolling at Harvard University in the fall. So, congratulations to both of you. Your community is celebrating your achievements. Is this mine? All right. >> So slow. >> I know. >> Pretty exciting. So,

011the next person that I want to recognize could not be here this evening because for those of you who keep tabs on, you know, our theater program, we have a very big weekend planned with the release of our spring musical, but I did want to acknowledge that Parisburg High School wanted to honor the following student for achieving a perfect composite score of 36 on the ACT earlier this year. So, Hannah Davies represents an estimated 0.25% 25% of all administrations of the ACT. A remarkable achievement signifying optimal talent coupled with an insatiable work ethic and we wish her all the luck in the world pursuing her next steps. 1.4 million students took the ACT in 2025. So pretty remarkable. It doesn't happen often but definitely something that deserved to be recognized publicly. And I will share

012a little story about Hannah Davies. And I had the opportunity to chaperone my first Parisburg prom. And you know, when you go to prom, you take notice of all the great outfits and dresses and suits and things along those lines. And I happened to see Hannah and her dress I, you know, thought was just very classic looking. I wanted to let her know that I really liked her choice. And she looked at me and smiled really big. She's like, you know, I made this myself, right? >> So, not only did she score perfect on the ACT, she's also creating her own prom dresses. So, we are we are very honored to have students like Hannah and the rest of the students that I'll be introducing here shortly. So, with that, I have four other students

013that I'm very proud to announce for that this year. Four of them actually have earned recognition as National Merit Scholarship Finalist, one of the highest academic distinctions available to high school students in the United States. To put this honor in perspective, more than 1.3 million students nationwide take the PSAT and the NMSQT each year, and only top students are named finalists. These students will almost certainly be awarded National Merit Scholarships, which recognize exceptional academic promise, leadership, and community involvement. When I call your name, please come forward. And at this time, I'd like to proudly introduce our four National Merit semi-finalists. First, Madison Fischer. Madison, here. You can clap for Madison Carson Clapper and our other two, Hannah Davies. You can clap for Hannah as well as Will Hollandbeck. So, I should have worked that out

014beforehand. All right. So along some of these same lines, I'd next like to proudly introduce the following students identified as National Merit commended students for performing in the 97th percentile nationally on the PSAT as well. And when I call your name, please come to the podium. Elizabeth Crawford, Lucas Graham, Inesh Gupta, Connor Hastings, Emily Codem, Cali Pier, Nina Rando, don't get tired of giving applause. Andrew Sorth, Sophia Shine, Ethan Williamson, and Emily Wilson. Okay, I got it. So, we've got All right. Our fantastic orchestra director is unable to attend tonight. So I have the honor of recognizing some of our fantastic musicians. And I'd like to offer congrat following Parisburg High School Orchestra students. They were accepted to perform in the 2026 Allstate Orchestra. They are and when I call your name again, please come

015to the front. Will Hollandbeck on viola, Robbie Zang on the cello, and Maya Markham on the violin. These musicians were chosen based on their new or on their Northwest Region Orchestra by finishing in the top three chairs in the region. Performing with the OMA Allstate Orchestra is one of the highest achievements a high school musician can accomplish. Congratulations from Mr. Smith. I guess that's fine. >> All right, we are on item 3.4. I'd like to introduce Scott Hicks and Brandy Charlo who will talk tonight to us about our PHS mock trial state qualifiers. Welcome to the podium. >> Okay. Hello everybody. Oh, that's really high. Okay. So, first we want to welcome up our team, our state mock trial team. Uh this is going to be Zachary Meyer. Um Oh, yeah. We can clap. A

016sen, Cameron Brutderly, Alena Fuentes, Annie Saya, Anushri, Verma, Jonathan Sivert, And uh not here today are Ella Han and Allison Herald. So a little bit about our journey this year. Um we started the district competition and I had to write down their awards because there was a lot of them. Um our uh just a district competition that was in Toledo. Uh we had outstanding witness awards for Annie SA, Cameron Brutley, Mona Gill, and Bismagill. outstanding attorneys for Alahan and AN Shen. At the district competition, we were one of two teams to advance to regionals. Um then at the regional competition, we were actually the only team from Northwest Ohio to make it to state. Um and there we saw Anushma and Alena Fuentes win outstanding witness awards and outstanding attorney for Avish at districts uh

017state competition. So, this is a three-day journey, and these kids were at these courouses all day, every day for 3 days. I was there, too. It was exhausting. It was impressive. Um, they actually made it all the way uh we found out Friday night that we made it to the state competition Saturday morning. We got to go to the state supreme courthouse in Columbus to uh present our case. And it was um at state, we also had Ella Han win the outstanding attorney award. And Alena Fent has also won another outstanding witness award at states. Do you want to add anything to the competition, please? >> My name is Scott Hicks and I was the assistant chief public defender for Wood County for 30 years. And in that role, I've done hundreds of jury trials.

018And all I handled was high level felonies, including murder cases. And this is the first time I ever told these kids this, but I guarantee you if you ever get in trouble, and these guys are attorneys, hire one of them because I have seen hundreds of trials, participated in hundreds of trials. These guys, now any seniors here? No. Are senior? Yeah, Jonathan. >> These guys are easily better than 50% of the trial attorneys I've seen in practice. these kids are outstanding. They work hard and they learn. They pay attention. So these kids are to be congratulated. >> Yeah. Top four in the state. So like we also want to thank uh Judge O'Han and Judge Astrude too for all their support. We couldn't have done this without them. So we'll give them a hand. They're

019not here today. But thank you Could I please have quiet in the audience? All right, thank you. >> Up next, we have we're on item 3.5, speech and debate state qualifiers. We are just full of state qualifiers tonight. Uh could we welcome to the podium, please, Coach Jennifer Nai Lake and volunteer assistant coaches Alex Leong and Deborah Kemp. There's people here. I'm so scared. Okay. Um um we had an amazing year this year. Speech and debate. Um we had 12 regular tournaments throughout the season plus district, state districts, national districts, states, and um coming up in June, we have nationals. So um and we had um uh qualifiers in states. We had and we have a qualifier right now. We may have more for nationals. Um and I'm going to there's not a lot of

020us here tonight um because uh the musical has stolen most of the team away. So, and that is fine. Um, but those of the of you that are here, if you want to come and join me up here, Annie, Kate, Kate, we had uh 24 kids on the team this year and 18 of them qualified to states. Um, we were uh third for the third year in the row in a row. Uh, we were uh the uh first in our district, our Toledo district. And I'm just going to kind of read the names. If I butcher names, guys, just, you know, look, give me the side eye. Okay. Um, uh, qualifying to states this year, Mara Iris, Aris, sorry, it's Mara Eris, senior. You can give her an app, a round of applause. Junior Alex

021Ban, freshman Lilith Bansac, junior Gabriella Brisco, sophomore Sohan Karapati, uh, where you die hard. All right. Um and uh our president and senior uh Ellahan, junior uh Alyssa Heinesman, sophomore Rashad Ja. Wait. Okay. uh junior uh Ria Katri, senior Jordan Nahas, and senior Jacob Nahas, both of which were state uh finalists in uh dramatic interp uh uh yes, dramatic interp and program of Orland Turp. Um Mana Periq Jr. Erin Rodriguez was actually our first alternate. Uh Anwin SA junior freshman Elaine Tan sophomore Anushi Verma junior Iris uh Westing and um and Steve senior Robinson Zang who is also our national qualifier in humorous centerp and also on the team which doesn't happen at all without these two over here. Um do you want to just introduce yourselves? You want me to just shoot your names

022out? All right. Um uh Mrs. Deborah Kemp and Dr. Alex Leong and thank you for all your support and continued support and um we're going to have another banner near next year. So, thank you Congratulations everybody. That's so cool. >> All right. Item 3.6. Mr. Jacob, we'd like to welcome you to the podium tonight. >> Thank you. Incredible amount of talent in this building this evening. Um, good evening members of the board, administration, families, and community members. On behalf of the Parisburg High School athletic department, I would like to personally thank you for your continued support you provide to our student athletes and programs. Nights like this are a direct reflection of a community that values educationbased athletics and invest in opportunities for our students to grow, compete, and succeed. Before we recognize these outstanding

023teams and individuals, I want to express our appreciation to our building and district leadership, our coaches, and especially our parents and community. Your commitment, whether it's time, resources, or unwavering support, creates the foundation that allows our programs to thrive. This winter season, our student athletes demonstrated incredible dedication, resilience, and pride in representing our school at the highest level. Their success is not only measured in wins and championships, but in the way they carry themselves and represent our proud community. At this time, it's my honor to introduce our coaches and teams who have qualified for state competitions with the Ohio High School Athletic Association this winter. These individuals embody the very best of what our athletic programs stand for and we are incredibly proud of their accomplishments. Our first program this evening representing our 11 Pete

024Northern Lake League champs and nine Pete district champs, assistant coach Danielle Tutleacheski. Good evening and thank you for this opportunity to recognize our athletes. We really appreciate it. Um, as Mr. Jacob said, we were 11 time champions for the NLLL gymnastics meet as well as ninetime for the district and that also sent us to the state meet for the ninth time and we had a great a really great showing there. We placed ninth in the state and we also had a day two with four individual qualifiers as well which is great. Um we had a couple of interesting meets this season. We went to Tumble for a Cure which is a philanthropy meet for um raising breast cancer awareness. We also went to a meet called Beauty and the Beast and that's where the wrestlers

025were on the wrestling mats right next to us and we were on the gymnastics equipment so the loud buzzers are going off and everybody's screaming and cheering and it was a great experience for for both distractions for our athletes um as we're going into the state meet but also a great experience to get to watch other sports and cheer them on. So that was great. Um, we also had our Noah's ninjas invitational meet with which is a philanthropy meet that raises money towards um, Duchenne's muscular distrophe. And to date, our team has helped to raise over $17,000 towards this cure. And um, last but not least, we just had a final season record of 76 and four. So congratulations ladies. If you want to come on up and join me, they would prefer I not

026do the individual shout outs. I believe we're ready for our photo op here. Thank you. Uh, our next winner program, I don't believe uh either of these two individuals are here. Charlotte or Trevor. I know I believe Trevor's got boys volleyball for sure. Okay, real quick. Just want to make sure I um recognize Charlotte Baxter was a state qualifier for our swim uh program in two events. Um 200 yard freestyle, she was a district champ. And in the 500 yard freestyle, she also qualified um placing third in the district. Um, our diver this year is uh Trevor Madigan, who is threetime all Ohio back-to-back state runnerup in a University of Minnesota commit. So Trevor Madigan um has had a fantastic career for our program. our final program this evening. Uh it's my distinct honor to

027introduce to you the head coach of the very first boys state championship team in Parisburg history, Coach Scott Bernett. All those guys up here. Hey guys, come on up here. just easier that way. >> If you guys want, just go over here and then line up like the guy the placers and qualifiers in front 106 through. >> Okay. Um so so first of all I just want to for taking the time to recognize all our kids from our programs and our teams. Um the academic stuff for me was super duper impressive. I struggled academically. Um not because I wasn't smart but just um academics were so the fact that um the kids that have 4.5s and 4.6s sixes and just in general, that's remarkable. Um, so hats off to you guys. I know what it's

028like being a teenager um in today's day and age and and living your life and doing what you do. So that's super duper impressive. Um, the academic spot hits me a little different. We have a lot of kids on our team that do well academically, too. So great job to to the kids programs. Um, you guys are awesome. Um, it's super duper impressive. Um now um uh so our team um I finished as a state championship team which is um which is amazing right um but a long a long time of just a lot of um sacrifice by families and and and staff members and administrators. I've been up here doing this thing um you know like gosh I don't know like eight eight out of nine years or whatever I had to miss one

029due to some wrestling stuff but um it just hits a little different this year because our kids were able to um do something that we never done before. So um it's really really cool are recognizing us. Um and then um just a couple stats for our team. Um the the first tournament of the year is the Iron Man tournament is one of the toughest wrestling tournaments that we go to in the whole country. Um they finished ninth. The top eight schools were allies and uh parochial schools. So um we're a closed enrollment public school. Um so I think we're the first ever closed enrollment public school to ever win a state championship which is um considering who we got to go through. Um Lakewood St. Edwards. They're parochial. They got guys from an hour away

030from their school, their tradition, their networking, and their just what they're about. It's really, really hard to beat those guys. Um they've won 40 45 state titles in 48 years. So, um for these guys to do that, um for our kids from top to bottom, it's pretty pretty special. Um we were second at Brexville to Buchanan, uh California, they were like second in the country. Um every other tournament they won. um we were league champions, they were sectional champions, they were district champions, and then um they were able to uh score the most points at state. So, that's really really cool. Um individually, um I should know all our stuff, but I'm just going to look at my notes. Um okay, hold on. Sorry. Um are you guys all in order? Yeah. Okay. So, uh

031106 Colin Bdonus, he was a state champion. Uh his obvious twin brother Connor was uh fourth. Uh Aiden Dodd was third. Greet was first. Alex Dinkens was first. Jeriah Lopez was second. Whan Dinkens was a Sully Carman was fourth. Ben Tackets was eighth. Joe Fos was seventh. Shane Sedo and then uh Savannah Muli had to leave. She's going to a practice. Um she was our first ever girl state qualifier. Um she won I believe she won a match, right? She won a match down there. Um so that's huge. We had three girls compete this year. So, we're we're on the verge of trying to uh get a sanctioned girls team, which is a big deal. So, um yeah, your historic uh state championship wrestling team. You got to move further back, Rachel. >> Hey, thank

032you guys very much. Thank you. >> Congratulations. Um, as we conclude tonight's recognition of our winter state championship qualifiers, I also want to take a moment to honor and recognize one of the truly special coaching careers in Parisburg athletics. Um, we have two special individuals here tonight. If I could have Todd Sims and Rob Ross come up to the front. Todd Sims has devoted decades of service to Parisburg High School, our student athletes, and this community. A proud Yellow Jacket alumnist, Coach Sims has reach recently stepped away from the head girls basketball head coach position after 17 seasons and 38 total seasons within the girls basketball program, including his time as an assistant. He finished his head coaching career with an outstanding 293 and 123 record, winning over 70% of his games over those 17

033seasons. Under his leadership, the program captured four Northern Lake Championships, 13 sectional titles, six district championships, and made two trips to the regional finals. His impact reaches far beyond girls basketball. This past year marked his 80th season coaching high school athletics at Parisburg High School. An extraordinary and rare accomplishment in today's everchanging world of high school athletics. bled truly black and gold. He's led with passion, loyalty, consistency, and an unwavering commitment to our student athletes. Joining him tonight is his longtime loyal assistant, Rob Ross, who for for the past 18 years has helped guide, mentor, and support countless student athletes in our program. steady presence behind the scenes, always giving a pat on the back, an active and intentive ear, and an unwavering support for every athlete in our program. His ability to build trust,

034instill confidence, and connect with all of our student athletes has played a vital role in the success and culture of Parisburg girls basketball. Together, these two gentlemen represent what is best about high school athletics: commitment, relationships, and a lasting impact. Please join me this evening in recognizing coach Todd Sims and Coach Rob Ross for the remarkable dedication, service, and legacy. Thank you very much. We are on item 3.8. This is a very special honor. There are a lot of districts where teachers are automatically at a certain point in their career awarded a continuing contract, but in the Parisburg schools, this honor is a very distinguished honor. It is it does not come easily. They'll all tell you it does not come easily. It's not automatic. It means that they're our most dedicated and most loyal

035teachers. And so tonight, each of their administrators will come up and recognize them. After that, board members, uh, the next item on the agenda will be to vote for those continuing contracts. But first, let's hear about each of these very, very special educators. Would Tiffany Kerman please join us up at the podium? And I'm also joined by one of our assistant principles, Mrs. Katie Bacon. And it is with strong enthusiasm, full support that I come before the board of education to recommend a continuing contract for intervention specialist Tiffany Keterman. Over the course of my time at opportunity to work with Tiffany in a variety of settings, I first came to know her through her involvement in our district wellness committee when I was serving as our director of student services and well-being. In that role,

036Tiffany stood out immediately. She was brought a lot of positive energy and willingness to engage in the work and most importantly the follow-through to turn ideas into action. She is thoughtful, creative, and committed. And even when initiatives didn't go exactly as planned, she approached them with a constructive mindset and a focus on improving moving forward. Not as tall. I've had the chance to see Tiffany in a different context as a member of our high school staff. She continues to make meaningful contributions, whether that's supporting staff wellness efforts, um helping to coordinate activities for our staff, or creating opportunities for students outside of the school day, like organizing a pickle ball club to build connections in a different setting. In her primary role as an intervention specialist, Tiffany is known for a lot of things, but

037among them being incredibly hardworking and deeply committed to her students. She consistently goes above and beyond, not only for students with special needs, but for all students. As a co-teer, she's highly respected by her colleagues for the way she collaborates and supports the learning environment. She brings professionalism, consistency, and a team first mindset to her work every single day. >> So, we all understand that a continuing contract is not simply a formality. It represents a level of mutual trust and commitment. Tiffany has demonstrated that commitment to our district and I believe it is both appropriate and important that we recognize it. I'm proud to recommend Tiffany Kerman for a continuing contract and strongly encourage the board to grant her this well-deserved distinction. Thank you. Mr. Decker from Hall Prairie. >> All right. Good evening. All

038right. It is my privilege to recommend Miss Julia Lark, a Wilson reading teacher at HPI for continuing contract. She is joined tonight by her husband, Steve, and we appreciate both of you coming tonight. Uh Mrs. Mrs. Lark earned her bachelor's degree from BGSU and her master's degree in education curriculum and instruction from the University of Toledo. She has completed some graduate level work at the Lord's University to obtain her K12 reading endorsement. She began her teaching career here in Parisburg in 2013 and in 2016 she completed her Wilson reading system training which is an intense training uh and moved to Parisburg High School to be the first Wilson teacher there. In 2018, she joined our family at HPI as the Wilson reading teacher. Mrs. Lark has uh served our district in many ways. She is

039the district's Wilson reading program representative. She has trained all the Wilson treat uh teachers in the district. She has been a part of the district committee. She's been a member of the district K12 uh K6 ELA committee and she is our building dyslexia evaluator supporting many students with specialized learning needs. Uh she's also you know in all that busy schedule has time to mentor a student teacher. Um Mrs. Lark uh has earned the an accomplished rating within the OTZ uh evaluation process which is very intense. Uh she consistently demonstrates strong instructional skills and collaboration, actively support students, colleagues, and all district initiatives, and she's committed to ongoing professional growth. Uh she is a very skilled and caring educator who strengthens our Parisburg community. Um, she is a very strong recommendation for continuing contract within Parisburg

040schools and we truly thank everything Julie has done for Parisburg schools and her dedication to our students. Thank you so much and congratulations. I'd like to welcome Fort Meg's principal, Kelly Johnson, to the podium. Hi, good evening. We have um Courtney and Captain with us tonight. >> Um good evening board. I am writing to offer my recommendation for a continuing contract for Courtney Sparks, Fort Meg's speech language pathologist. Courtney has been an integral part of Pisburg School since 2017, and during that time, she has consistently demonstrated exceptional dedication to students, staff, and to the district as a whole. Courtney approaches every situation with a thoughtful, logical mindset and always focuses on what's best for kids, even when that work is difficult in the moment. Professionally, Courtney goes above and beyond the expectations of a role.

041She is highly organized, detail- oriented, and is an extremely hard worker. Her clinical expertise as a speech language pathologist shows in her daily practice. She has embraced leadership opportunities within the district, including serving on the building and district leadership teams, participating in curriculum work through the K6 ELA committee, and contributing to MTSS initiatives. Courtney was named Perryburg Schools Foundation Teacher of the Year in 2024. Courtney's involvement in the school facility dog program is another powerful example of her commitment to students and the school community. Her work in this area has positively shaped the culture of Fort Mags Elementary and beyond, fostering connection, emotional regulation, and a sense of belonging for students and staff alike. I, for one, sometimes get illegal hugs from captain on days when I need them. For all these reasons, I believe

042Courtney Sparks is a highly deserving continuing contract candidate. Thank you for your time and your thoughtful consideration of this recommendation. I have a second one tonight, too. Please welcome Emily White. Um, I am writing to offer my recommendation for a continuing contract for Mrs. Emily White, first grade teacher at Fort Mags Elementary School. Emily is an outstanding educator who brings patience, grace, and a strong commitment to students in everything that she does. She balances the many responsibilities of teaching with remarkable professionalism and care and constantly shows up for her students and colleagues with a calm, steady presence. Emily is someone that I personally rely on in moments of high stress when she always has a thoughtful perspective and a reassuring demeanor that makes a difference in our building. Emily builds strong, trusting relationships that show

043her students how to feel safe, supported, and confident in their learning. Her dedication to students extends well beyond her classroom as evidenced by her willingness to step forward with creative and innovative ideas that enhance learning experiences. One example of this is her leadership in the developing of the Fort Meg's learning garden in collaboration with the Home Depot, providing students with hands-on outdoor learning opportunities. Additionally, Emily seeks out um and secures resources for her students such as obtaining grant funding to bring in Tony boxes for the classroom to enrich literacy instruction. Emily demonstrates leadership and a strong commitment to professional growth growth. She has served as member of the building leadership team since 2016 and has contributed to district initiatives as part of the vision 2020 team. Additionally, she earned her master's degree in teaching and

044learning in 2022, and her dedication and impact may have been recognized through multiple honors, including being named the American Teacher American Legion Teacher of the Year in 2017 and the Parisburg Schools Foundation Teacher of the Year in 2020 for Fort Megs Elementary. For these reasons, I strongly support Emily White's request for a continuing contract. She exemplifies the values of Parisburg schools and continues to make a lasting positive impact on students, staff, and the school community. Just last night, I was getting ready to settle in for the night and I get a text from Emily. She found one of our former kindergarteners that she when she taught kindergarten many years ago on the playground and she sent me a selfie with them like, "Look who I saw." I mean, kids recognize her everywhere she goes. So,

045two outstanding candidates tonight from Fort Megs. Thank you. >> Thank you, M. And finally, Mrs. Finally, Mrs. Bryant from Frank Elementary. Good evening, Board of Education. It is my pleasure to recommend Amber Valhau for a continuing contract. Amber has been teaching for 13 years and has been a Parisburg teacher for 12 of those and all of her time in Parisburg has been at Frank and in kindergarten. Miss Valo has been very involved as an educator and a leader for Parisburg schools. She has served as a member of the building leadership team as well as building level and district level safety committees. She's participated as a critical friend for new teachers on multiple occasions, and she also volunteers to work at school events such as book fairs, family funfest, steam night, music concert, and frank parent

046club cookouts. Amber has taught for Parisburg's Safety Town during the summer for many years, and in 2024, she took on the role as safety town coordinator. here. She works closely with Parisburg City and Parisburg schools to plan for this program, which serves approximately 240 incoming kindergarten and first grade students yearly. Amber is a nurturing and knowledgeable educator. She is the epitome of kindness and patience. She builds relationships with students, families, and colleagues. She is an expert in her field and is a valuable resource for the building and the district. She has fulfilled all her contractual obligations for tenure and has demonstrated leadership and commitment to Parisburg schools. And I am honored to recommend Amber for a continuing contract. Congratulations. >> Okay, Mrs. Lurmer, after the vote, um after you vote, let's bring everybody up for

047a picture. I think the board would love to get a picture with these fine educators. >> Um so board, we're on 41, please. Do I have a motion for approving the um nominees for continuing contracts? >> A resounding. So moved. >> There we go. A resounding one, no less. Second and a second for Denise. Roll call. Mr. Drewer, >> Miss Haywood, >> yes. >> Miss Phillips, >> yes. >> Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. Congratulations. Come on back up. Yes. >> Sure. >> Principles, would you please join these educators? interest. I think you're done. Thank you. Give it just a pause here for a second. All right, we are now at 4.2 two and I would like a motion to uh accept the following administrative contract for Dr. Brad contact. >> Do

048I have a move? >> So moved. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Okay. Casey and Laura. Uh is there any discussion >> before we Okay. What I would like to do would be we ha we are just about to meet a new administrator but we haven't met the administrator who is going to be working with this new administrator. So I would like to give a brief bio an introduction to our incoming superintendent Mr. Mike Eim. He's currently the director of business and personnel for Solen City Schools essentially their COO. He also serves as their district compliance officer and title n coordinator. He's been an elementary and middle school principal as well as an assistant principal, curriculum technology resource teacher, and also a third grade teacher all for Solen Schools. He's a member of the Aurora City

049School Boards of Education and also serves as the clerk of council for Newton Falls. Both positions give him a unique and advantageous viewpoint of effective board governance as well as the public legislative process. He firmly believes that strong school systems are built on trust, transparency, and meaningful relationships. And that is one of the many reasons why he's here today, to start meeting his new school and district communities, as well as to introduce to you his first hiring choice for our new HR director, Dr. Brad Contact from Anthony Wayne Schools. Mr. Aim, I yield the floor to you. Thank you so much, Mrs. Lurmer, for that kind introduction. >> I'm very excited to get started. I had a wonderful day meeting many people, most of whom I will probably forget their names until I meet them

050again. But I'm I can't express how excited I am to get started. Thank you. Uh tonight we have for your consideration the approval of an administrative contract. The work of human resources is about people and in a school district people are our greatest asset. Every teacher in the classroom, every staff member supporting our operations and every leader guiding our schools plays a direct role in the student learning and success. That's why it's so critical that we have strong leadership in human resources. Someone who can recruit, develop, and support highquality staff members while building a positive collaborative culture across the organization. This role also plays an important part in developing future leaders in building a strong pipeline for our schools. When we get that right, we create the conditions where our educators do their best work

051and our students thrive. Dr. Brad Kat brings a depth of experience in both educational leadership and human resources that aligns well with that vision. His background as a school building leader, his work in human capital management, and his commitment to supporting people and teams position him very well to make a meaningful impact in Parisburg schools. I'm very pleased to recommend that the board approve Dr. Brad Kat as executive director of human resources. I'm sorry. >> Okay. Any any discussion at this point beyond what I already said? >> No. >> Hearing none. Do I have a motion to approve the contract for Mr. Con? >> You already have a motion. >> We already have a motion. That's right. And we're doing discussion and you did discussion. We've discussed ourselves out. I'm um ready for a roll

052call then. I am so sorry. I'm getting so excited about what's going on tonight. I can't keep things straight. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer. >> Yes. Yes. Welcome. >> Congratulations. >> Welcome so much. >> Dr. Conte, would you like to say anything? I'm sure word been a long evening, but uh I just thank you for having trusted me to join this team and I know it's excellent team, excellent district, and I'm just excited to get started just like make a difference. Thank you. >> Well, we thank you so much for being here and for those of you listening, not watching, they already come black and gold approved and they're black and gold. So, we appreciate the uh the leaning in on there.

053Well done. Thank you so much. Uh, we are now moving into Dr. Ann stats update. >> We got one more thing. Oh, I'm so sorry, boy. I skipped. See, I'm just not paying attention here. How about 43? It's kind of an important one. >> Um, we are asking to approve the master agreement between Oopsy local 242. Now, please note that we are appending a signature acquisition still. So, this is to give everybody the the approval to move ahead once that signature that we've been told is coming will be here. And the Parisburg Exempt Village School District, which is us as presented to the period through for the period from July 1st, 2026 to June 30th, 2029. Do I have a motion? So moved, >> Denise. And a second. >> Second. >> I've got a second

054and a third. I'm going Laura Casey. Is there any discussion? Anything that either of the two of you would like to add? >> It's like watching us each other. >> We're We're very excited about this. The pending approval, I don't want anybody to worry about that. We're just missing one signature that's been a little bit difficult to chase down. We'll upload the completed contract in the public part of the more uh the board agenda as soon as we get that one signature. So, we're just missing a signature. That's all. >> Okay. >> Everything else is good. >> All right. It's >> and and we do want to we appreciate negotiations with Oops, went well. It's been a little while. We had a couple minor points to clear up over the last couple months, but you

055know, the bulk was well. We've we've appreciated working with with the local as you recall a year ago going through reductions. um OC leadership were very they provide a lot of leadership in helping us work through the the reductions in force and we appreciate that and um and we look forward to continue continuing that relationship. >> Thank you. Thank you. All right. Any other discussion? All right. Roll call. Mr. Drew. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer. >> Yes. Okay. So, for some reason, I'm I'm really excited to get to 51. So, Dr. Anstat, >> well, good evening everybody. All right, there's the microphone. We have it. All right. So, I just would like to remind everybody and especially for our newcomers this evening

056that our mission here is to ensure that all students achieve their greatest potential. And this is where passion drives exemplary education. We are preparing future ready jackets who are thoughtful problem solvers, purposeful communicators, respectful collaborators, persistent innovators, lifelong learners, and empathetic citizens. All right. Tonight we're going to start with Mrs. Phillips who has a very special honor. That's a nice introduction. Um, so I'm going to read because I'm not a very good public speaker and I didn't do debate or um speech. So, uh, but please know it's still just as heartfelt. Um, I'd like to take a moment to recognize and thank two individuals whose efforts will bring meaningful literacy experiences to students across Parisburg schools. First, I want to thank Mr. Joe Sarns for his work in bringing Claire's Day author's visits back to

057our elementary schools this year. After several years without participation, Mr. SRS took the initiative to recommend our district with this impactful program and secured the necessary sponsorships to make it possible for all four elementary schools to take part to take part with support from the Parisburg Schools Foundation. Opportunities like these spark imagination, build excitement around reading, and help students see themselves as readers and writers. I would also like to recognize Mr. Bradley Sanola at Parisburg Junior High School. Mr. Sanola coordinated student participation in the Northwest Ohio Teen Book Festival bookmark art contest and I'm pleased to share that a Perryburg Junior High student was selected as the winner. As a result, author Allison Stein, who will be participating in the festival, will be visiting the junior high on April 24th. This is a wonderful opportunity

058for our students made possible through Mr. Senola's initiative and notably at no cost to the school. Everyone at the table up here has um one of the bookmarks with the artwork from the Parisburg Junior High student. In recognition of these efforts, I will be donating a book by each visiting author to the participating schools with a book plate in each to thank Mr. S and Mr. Senola for their leadership and commitment to fostering a love of reading in our students. Thank you both for creating these meaningful opportunities for our students and thank you to the Parisburg Schools Foundation. Denise, can you give a a quick summary of what Claire's Day is to everybody so that they understand? >> Yeah, Claire's Day is actually in its 25th year this year. It was started by Julie Rabini

059in um Mami and um it brings in uh children's authors and illustrators to the community. There's two festivals. One is in Toledo and one is in Mami. Um we participate in the mommy uh uh event um and schools uh can choose to have the authors come in and speak to the schools. They can also nominate teachers can nominate students for Claire's day awards. Um and the unique thing about this uh program is the awards are given to the students who have shown the most improvement in their reading. Um so it's a really special award and I don't know if anybody's ever been there. I go every year that students come decked out with their family. like there are kids with tiaras, there are kids in three-piece suits, the whole family's there to celebrate this award

060for this student. Um, it's really an amazing day. Uh, so I'm very excited that the Parisburg schools will be participating this year and that the authors will be coming to get the kids excited about reading. >> Yes. Cool. >> Miss Mr. Sarns, could you join us up here and we'll get a picture with uh board member Phillips, please? I know. I know how much you love this. >> All of them. >> Do you want Do you want this too? >> Oh, yeah. That's even more. >> Well, that Mr. Okay. >> You want to hold the pirate queen's book? Do you want to take >> Thank you. >> Negotiations going on over the PE wall. >> All right. Tonight, I would like to call everyone's attention to a new statewide coalition that's forming to address property

061tax elimination impacts. So, I know that we know that locally we've had some action here and a community group has starting to form, but this week we also got really great news about the Ohioans to protect public services. The purpose of this uh group is to provide accurate and factual information on the impact of eliminating property taxes. You're probably reading about this a lot in the news. It has a broad membership including public schools, local government, businesses, and nonprofits. They have a website already set up with some great information on it. Uh the context here is that there's a proposed constitutional amendment that could potentially appear on the November ballot. We should know a little bit more about that this week and whether or not what their progress is on gathering the 400,000 plus signatures

062that they need from 44 of the 88 counties. uh our key message their key message is that property taxes fund essential local services including schools and public safety. So schools we are allowed as a school to share neutral and factual information about the potential impacts and um our reminder is that we will consult legal counsel if we go anywhere beyond that. So this we're excited about this because I think it will also bring more information to light and I think there's a lot of confusion around this right now. I don't know of a single person anywhere that doesn't want lower property taxes. Um, I think this is just a group that's going to give us some education on a more common sense way to approach that. So, all right. So, I'm excited to announce that

063last night we had very strong community attendance at our internet safety night. Um, I know that officer Kosianic tried really hard to say multiple times that she was not trying to scare us and yet we all left quite frightened. Um, Brian Booze was also there. He is the Wood County assistant prosecutor. And then our school resource officers were there as well. Um Mrs. Phillips was there. It was really well attended. I think it's a message that every parent in this district needs to hear. We heard stories of real families in this town experiencing particularly frightening things. So I think uh obviously it's not something because we're sharing local stories and we're sharing their strategies. Uh we didn't we could not videotape the uh presentation but we did I don't know Rachel did we release it

064today or we're about to release resources. Okay. All right. So tomorrow we will be releasing a lot of the resources from that meeting. Uh we are very excited about this. Obviously uh I covered it in my Facebook live but officer Kosianic is such a great resource overall. Um, honestly, shout out to the Pierersburg Police Department who does such a great job keeping our kids safe, but they can only do as much as we're doing at home. And I think you've seen us move in this past couple of weeks to tighten down the hatches on our local devices for students. And uh, a great big shout out to our Perryburg Police Department for keeping our students and our families safe. Uh this is a month that is full of appreciation days and Rachel's and my biggest

065fear is that we're going to forget somebody. Um but we just keep adding to the list. So this is a broad list of everyone that we recognize in April and May. And uh I big special shout out to our administrative professionals who uh we celebrate tomorrow. But it everybody gets a day in the next few weeks. So we're excited about that. So big shout out to everyone there. Look at these cuties. This These are our Parisburg preschool students and they recently brought their creativity to life in the Notabox preschool showcase. It was absolutely adorable. It was inspired by the book Not a Box by Antoanet Poris. Uh families and staff enjoyed seeing how students transformed ordinary boxes into imaginative creations, each uniquely their own, and they are darling. Fort Mags recently hosted, I love this

066name, a mill chill. We have big news coming from Fort Megs, too. We're not going to announce it at this meeting, but we've got a big we've got a big announcement coming from Fort Megs that we're very excited about. Um, but they enjoyed a pizza lunchon, bringing military connected families together to connect and share experiences. And April is the month of the military child. Uh, Parisburg School celebrates these students and extends our sincere appreciation to our military families for their service and sacrifice and also for those staff members who make sure that we are taking good care of our military families. Uh, frank fourth graders brought history to life with their wax museum presentations. There were athletes and famous scientists, entertainers, political figures and more. And our students truly impressed with were impressed with their

067creativity and knowledge. If you listened to Facebook live yesterday, you heard a little bit about our students in rocks are ruling our experiences. This is a program that recently explored personal safety. You can see that they were right here in this room uh working on their personal safety, their confidence, their awareness, their intuition, their body language. The greatest thing about this program is how these young women talk about this and how confident they are in telling you what they're learning and how much confidence they've gained through the program. So, we're really excited about our ruling our experiences group, our rocks groups. Mrs. Burke's class at Woodland Elementary wrapped up an incredible journey as they celebrated the end of the Iditarod. Rachel was worried I wouldn't be able to say Iditarod, but when I taught fourth

068grade, we talked about the Adidarod, so I can say it. After weeks of following their musher, tracking progress, and learning along the way, students crossed the finish line together. We're so excited for them. HPI loved celebrating school librarian appreciation day, one of the many appreciation days we have with their literacy center volunteers. This group of volunteers meets there every Friday and take such good care of our language arts teachers uh in uh libraries, their personal libraries. Uh and that's a lot of work. They repair books, they get them back on shelves, they make them look beautiful again so that they will be well loved well into the future. A big shout out to all of these volunteers. PJHS had a great time celebrating and recognizing the PAR professional team with their annual appreciation breakfast. These

069paraprofessionals are very valued uh staff members for us and we're so excited that they come and they support our students that need a little extra help during the day. 30 PJHS orchestra students recently participated in OMA solo and ensemble adjudicated event. They perform solos, duets, trios, and quartets. And we're so proud of their hard work and growth. The music program here does not happen by accident. It's worldclass for a reason. And it starts at HPI. It develops into an even stronger program at the junior high and then finally the high school. Just incredible musicians. Thank you to everyone who joined the Pittsburgh High School's Muslim Student Association for the Ramadan Community. I went and it was amazing. It was absolutely amazing. The evening brought together students and families and community members for a meaningful opportunity

070to learn about Ramadan from the local imam. Uh and and honestly a lot from our students who really shared quite a bit about their faith. They demonstrated uh their prayer rituals. They connected. We connected across an incredible meal. Oh my gosh, the meal was just amazing and really learned a lot more about their culture and their experiences. It was a great evening. Congratulations to Joy Wagner and the Parisburg High School yearbook staff on earning national recognition in the Jins's Lookbook 2026. We were selected as just one of 500 yearbooks nationwide. And this honor celebrates the best in yearbook design, inclusivity, storytelling, and student journalism. Parisburg school students from HPI, the junior high, and the high school delivered an outstanding performance at the regional science day that was held at the University of Toledo. They earned

071top ratings with many of them advancing onto the state competition. We're so proud of our students and their curiosity and best of luck to them on May 16th at the state science day. If you have not been downstairs at Weey Library, you have only until Thursday to do it. And I cannot if you live in this town, you have to go. You absolutely have to go because the talent that is on display in the Way Library right now from our PHS art students is just incredible. When you walk through, you'll recognize the homes that you have driven by for dozens of years and you the way that these kids have replicated these homes sometimes in ceramic, sometimes in oils and watercolors. It just brings them to life that it is absolutely the most incredible display.

072I was there yesterday. We welcomed the OEA president yesterday for a tour of our district and one of our stops yesterday was at the library to to see these incredibly talented students and their work. And some of it's for sale. So go check it out. And then this morning I just had a great opportunity and I wanted to shout out our great partner Weey Public Library. Their ribbon cutting for their focus rooms was this morning. And I just want to draw your attention to that far right. Um, you can kind of see I kind of stood at the end just to take a picture of all these individual rooms. The one in the center is an individual room that the old tech area that was in the basement is now uh these there's these gorgeous

073focus rooms um that you can check out and they're for everything. They're for gaming, they're for meetings, they're for study, whatever you want to go and do, you can check out a room there. And they are beautiful. Weey did a really good job responding to the needs of the community as they always do. Big shout out to Janelle Hos who really just has the care and feeding of that library system and has been under her care for a long time. You can see the mayor there making a proclamation. There were so many proclamations this morning. So I got the big rock star there, Mayor Weber. So that is my report. >> Awesome. >> Okay, >> everybody's This is the moment everybody's been waiting for. >> A break. Yeah, we're gonna take a fiveinut break. If

074for no other reason to just stand and stretch. Um, and congratulations on getting this far. We'll see you in approximately five minutes. It is 7:37. We're going to try and finish the rest of the meeting. Um, we are at public comment. Um, I know that one member has left, one or one sneige has left, one has already spoken to us. And do I have a Mark English here? There you are. >> Okay. Well, >> I didn't know what the agenda was, but rather than shut yourself off. >> All right. Well, sir, you have the podium then over there if you wish to speak. >> You do. You do. You're on record. Well, we'll pick it up if you don't. >> We need your um name and your address. Please press preface. Okay, I'm going to

075read it right from here so that I don't mess it up for you. Please preface your comments with your name, address, and group affiliation if any. Um, when circumstances create time constraints, comments may be limited to three minutes as stipulated in board policy bylaws 0169.1. There will be an additional opportunity for public input on other topics at the end of the meeting. So, Mr. English, the floor is yours. >> Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm uh Mark English. I'm at 20 Boston Road in Three Meadows here in Parisburg. Uh I'm the father of three Parisburg High grads and uh the grandfather of four current Parisburg students with a fifth just seven months old. Uh so I'm invested in the well-being of uh this district for the well-being of my kids. I've been very pleased with what

076my kids have experienced uh through the years from the school. uh get distressed by people who want less than the best and I'm uh as I have shouted out at uh my granddaughter's junior high concert and I shout it out here. This is why I support the Levies. uh it's these folks and I am just uh very pleased you know to have this to recognize not only uh all the wonderful achievements here tonight and and the great teachers and staff and volunteers who've made it possible but uh that that attention is also going to everybody and know my I have two grandkids who need intervention and I want to make sure that they're going to receive it and hear hearing things tonight. Yes, they will. We'll find a way to I was talking with Mike

077and he says we'll find a way to do this. So, this is my first school board meeting ever. >> Well, welcome. You picked a really good one. >> I lucked out. >> Any questions? >> Thank you so much, Mr. English. We appreciate your support and uh your comments. I I think you are a solo act. So, we are going to move on to the superintendent committee reports um operations. um ju just due to the the the length of the meeting and such, um James always does a good job on summarizing what happened during our meeting, but I do have to add one little thing, especially since he's not here, that um we all decided that Brent Schaefer deserves a superhuman cape. A lot of the things that happened in all of the different categories and

078operations uh at this particular meeting could all be traced back to Brent Schaefer's ability to fix it, his ability to anticipate it, and his ability to find the right people who are going to get it fixed. And he made what seemed like impossible hurdles happen. One of them being the cameras on the buses, which as we have seen over the past year, year and a half, were failing rapidly and miserably. And between him and Stephanie and James, boom, we now have cameras on our buses. And they're working just about at 100% at this particular point. still, you know, there's it's technology, so there's always going to be a slight glitch here and there with taking old and new and making them merry and be happy. But it was it was really quite phenomenal. So, in

079in light of doing all of our shoutouts tonight, I definitely want to do a shout out to um Brent Schaefer for the cape that I should probably get around to sewing up for him. And um Denise as well had some really kudo things going on with um basically people coming in and and uh all the people that she has to report to um are coming in throughout our entire district and looking at our food service and checking off to see if we're compliant. Not only were we compliant, but they were giving her extreme shoutouts and kudos for how well her team worked, operated, and how well the whole department is working. So that I'm that was a very full meeting, very short, but I just wanted to to say that. >> There we go. Yeah,

080absolutely. I think, oh, I I got a job for you. Okay. Um, and personnel, I'm always nervous about what I should or shouldn't say in personnel, so I would kind of like to defer to Katie. Um, Don's gone. Um, >> I can say anything I want. >> You can say anything you want because he's not here. Yeah. Well, it's hiring season, so obviously we're very busy uh hiring. Don's honestly I think yesterday his interview started at 7 am and I don't even know how long they went but we're continuing we have a lot of open positions uh due to retirements again there are no new positions right Mr. Durer is very happy about that. No new positions. Uh no new positions, but we we do have a lot of vacancies due to retirements. Um some

081of them on tonight's agenda. So, we'll continue to post those jobs as they become open. And the one thing that we, you know, we know is that Don will go out there along with the team of principles and the director of teaching directors of teaching and learning will do a really good job finding us the very best staff and James Mapus on the classified side. So, thanks to all of them for their hard work. Absolutely. Thank you very much because I'm never really sure what I should or shouldn't say on that. Um, pupil services. So, I'll be brief as well in hopes of keeping the the evening a little shorter. Um the people services I I mean just our people services team does amazing things with uh limited resources and so we went through the

082number of students uh requiring services the number of staff we have the um numbers for next year which looks like there'll be less students needing services right now last year than this year. >> Wow. >> As of right now >> that's knock on wood. And we talked about the great rocks program that um that Katie mentioned in her report as well as the MVP program which is the male version of rocks, right? Did I get that right? Okay. Um so that's my brief people's services. >> There you go. >> I did want to give a shout out to and I I totally forgot and it's right right here on my face on my notes here that I wanted to give a shout out to everything that went into pulling together that meeting last night. um

083on the the safety presentation that was incredible. Um >> it was it was really informative. Yes, it was scary and mind-blowing because as as she said, our minds don't think this way. Um, and I I think the awareness just making people aware that this is what's happening and what you need to do to protect our students. But I was so impressed that our SRO's were there last night >> and they got involved in the conversation and you always wonder what what do our SRO's do? They just by it getting involved in the conversations last night, you saw how deeply they're involved >> um on so many levels. Not only presents, but emotionally with not only the students, but the teachers and the staff and the parents and the families and everybody involved. They were engaged

084and that was very impressive. So that Yes, Mr. English. >> The officer have a print out of this topic or school's Facebook page. >> So, we'll have a resource page that will go out um via social media tomorrow. We can't release the entire presentation. And I let me just give a shout out where a shout out is due right here and that's Mrs. Price who oversees safety for the district. Last night was a big success and a lot of that comes from committees that she works with. Um we are in very good hands uh with Parisburg Police Department and with the work that Mrs. Price does. So big shout out to her. >> I couldn't agree more. I couldn't agree more. Development. >> I think I'm in charge of that tonight. >> You are in

085charge. All right. So 20 uh at the develop at the foundation meeting, which isn't quite the same as the development committee, but this is the right place to announce all that. So 2026 scholarships were finalized uh with appropriate donors helping to select the recipients and set amounts. All of the scholarships will be presented at the May 14th Parisburg Schools Foundation banquet, which is a wonderful night. Uh the foundation was recently the recipient of the Kip Bullis fund which had been managed by community members in the past and police officers. As they award scholarships to students, PSF will now manage the funds and it has been added to the scholarship opportunities. So that's great. Three grants were approved for an author or illustrator to visit each elementary school uh during Claire's Day weekend and that week

086uh for certification of students in CPR, AED and first aid. This is a credential. Mrs. uh I we always talk about credentials that our kids can earn and this is one of the credentials our kids can earn for a seal on their graduation. So that's great for AED and first aid and for training a new link advisor and link is that organ that student organization but led by some faculty but it's really pretty much studentled that that assimilates our incoming freshmen and we need adviserss to obviously run that program. It's a big program that really helps our freshmen be really successful when they enter the high school. So, that's great. And then policies and processes are being reviewed and updates to the board are planned for May. And it was a really great meeting. The

087the foundation meetings are always great. It's great to see this organization and how they work for our kids. So, always very impressive. >> When is the banquet? >> The banquet is May 14th. >> Okay. >> And it is at the Hilton, I believe. >> Oh, it's at the Hilton. >> It's at the Hilton. It's not at Belmont anymore. So, yes. >> Can I have an adjunct to that >> on the foundation? Uh Jeff Abkkey and I are working with the the Northwest Ohio Development Directors that association. We look maybe at the end of May having a meeting with them and their boards to talk about school funding advocacy. So we're working another group we're trying to get involved not to advocate as foundations that's not appropriate for their mission but as as committed community members

088to their schools and um Mr. Hustler from OSBA will be down and we may be able to get Katie Johnson from OASBO piped in but to to help them train them into how to advocate. So >> and Jeff Abkey is is been a key in making this happen. That doesn't surprise me. He's doing a lot on Facebook. Okay. Okay. Anything else, Dr. Anston? >> Okay. So, then we are down to 9.1 in that April financial presentation. >> All right. The moment you've all been waiting for. I see the audience here. I'm going to be just a a little bit long. I know it's been a long night, but a little bit longer winded than normal. Few things I want to cover, but I want to make just a couple quick comments kind of off the

089cuff. For first of all, you know, in the fiscal office, we don't always get to see the products of our labors and it's really nice to see that. You know, obviously we're not teaching. Hopefully, we're doing the things that allow the buildings to do their thing and I'm very proud of that. And the the reading thing is a big is also a big deal. I was thinking to myself um where I am or if I've had any success in life, it's because of being a a good reader at an early age. And um I was telling Mr. Sarns, I'm working on my grandkids library. They're four in one, but they've got Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings. I've got my favorite book, Captain's Courageous, for them. And I just bought the way the Way Library

090had their book sale. I bought 35 Hardy Boys books. So >> far a yes. >> I'm I'm I'm set. I'm reading them first before I give it to him. Not Tom Swift quite, but I just need to find there's some other Anyway. >> Oh, that's great. >> So, let me talk let's talk about some financial stuff. >> All right. >> Quickly, let me give you a general fund update. Um, this is was our cash balance at the end of last month. We got our tax settlement and you can see an upswing in our cash balance. And the difference between this year and last year is timing. Last year we didn't get our our tax settlement or finish it until April. So it's it's the right direction. And if you look at the year-to- date, you

091know, again, cash balance went up revenues is we got, you know, finished our tax settlement, but obviously not the peak it was in February. April um is our income tax payment month. Not huge, but it's still where it is. So we're we're tracking exactly where we where we always trend. I'm on the general um fund. I'm going to hit this at a high level that next month. I'm going to go into a little more detail on projections for the end of the year. And Casey and Denise is kind of new for you, but it used to be the five-year forecast was done in May. And when I did my forecast, I was really projecting. I can really project for the end of the year. Now, in February, it's it's a little bit harder. But I'm

092going to actually go through this because I think we'll end up this fiscal year better than expected. I want try to show you where the pluses and minus are. So, I'll go in more detail next month on this, but just to say that right now, um, on the real estate taxes, you'll notice that over year over year ahead on the real estate taxes, but way over on public utilities. That's his timing. When we get next month, that'll all that'll all even out. Oops, I'm ahead of myself. I'm my slide is different. everyone's up on the board because I should be looking up there. We're 176 true cash days. That's fabulous. I wish we'd be there all the time. That's just timing. Um revenue is 5.4% over year-over-year. Again, that'll that'll come down next month once

093we get even to even apples to apples on terms of tax settlements, but still slightly ahead of last year. And the big one is expenses are down 2.7%. Again, it's part of that reduction process. And I think we'll actually end up better than that. Um, and it's a lot of things. It's, you know, it's it's being co cognizant of positions being filled. It's it it doesn't it's it doesn't seem like a huge number, but and it's a pain, but all the efforts on copying costs, it's a pain. And I we understand it, but it's but it's significant and it's real. And if you can take those dollars and put them into what are we? We're a people business. You know, we're having these conversations. I'll come back to copy and cost when I talk about

094a couple other things. All right, I already talked about taxes. Enough of that. Again, the big the big our big cost area is obviously salaries and benefits. And that's where small percentages have big impacts. And so we're looking really good, trending trending well. And and it's a it's a it's a testament we do. We have an administrative team that are ask for reasonable things when they ask and and I think that they're not always the hand out that let's let's if we need something we're we're going to find you know we're going to find a way to do it within our current budget. Um for example we have some issues of sidewalks around Frank. Fortunately there's some money in our permanent in our capital spending that we're not going to use. I was we're going

095to put that into updating the sidewalks at Frank. Oh, cool. >> Okay, three other items. Are there any questions on the general fund? Next month, I'll go into some detail and you can and I can show you where all the variances are in terms of where we think we're going to end up. I want to talk about, excuse me, budgeting in a little bit. It's not something I've never I've ever reviewed with the board before, but I think it's important to show you what our process is and also to tie it into appropriations and the forecast. Tonight, you're going to approve amended for amended appropriations. I want you to see understand where that comes from. I do want just a quick finance lessons on one of our reports and then lastly I want to finish

096up with just a one slide talking about the Whirlpool investment. I want to level set the expectations there. Obviously it's a good thing but let's um keep we should be supportive and enthusiastic. It's good for the community but it it doesn't solve anything from a financial standpoint for us. So let me talk about budgeting first. So we're in the middle of budgeting for next fiscal year. And so budget versus forecast versus appropriations, they are tied together with the new law. Now, I've always kind of had this practice, but it's not always been the practice of um treasures because it never had to be this way. My budget, my forecast, and my appropriations are all linked. They should be, if not exact, close, you know, with less than a percent difference. And with the new laws,

097the budget and the current year forecast should match. Doesn't have to match to the penny, but and and what that really means is that and I what I talk about our forecast for the current year, that's our that's a budget essentially. Appropriations, the way we do appropriations in this district is driven by budget. So we build the budget, then come to the board and ask for the money to be able to spend the budget. In some places, someone might appropriate more than the budget. Well, how could that be? Well, let's say between my cash balance and um expected revenues, I have $100 million to spend, but I only may budget 80 million. So, the two don't match. And that used to be a practice. That way, if I have to increase budget spending, I don't

098have to ask the board's permission to spend it because the appropriations is your permission for the district to spend the money. Now, I've never really worked that way. My budgets match the appropriation, and that's kind of what the expectation by law is. So, I can't I don't I can't increase a budget without the board approval essentially at the fund level. All right? And that's an important distinction. And these are our major funds. And you know, you get that long cash summary in your financial report. The general fund is one we're forecasting. There's some talk about requiring us to do some other things with those other funds in our reporting, but that's the, you know, that's the fund that you approve in the forecast. So there's our so we we appropriate at the fund level. Um

099again, so whatever that in that so if you give me give the district approved let's say $78 million to spend we have the flexibility to spend that within you know whatever budget lines we need. Now the restriction is by default because of the forecast we're really limited by the object that is salaries personnel purchase services. So even though we're appropriate at the fund level, I I got to watch the the budget has to match the forecast. So it used to be you could kind of stick a contingent somewhere and move it to where you want. That doesn't work anymore. And when we do budgeting, we do what I what I call incremental budgeting. We start with where we are today and then ask what do we need for next year? Enrollment changes. Is there something

100coming along that you need? It could go up or down. And of course, we look at the trend, too. And one of the things I work work hard with is not to penalize people for not spending. >> Their money, their budget doesn't carry over, but if you don't buy that furniture this year, I'm not going to say you can't have furniture budget next year. That doesn't make sense. If you can don't need it, let's not spend it. But if you need it, let's budget it. And and our and our administrators are really good with that that mentality. G. So we're budgeting now with I am 27 forecast. So you've already seen the forecast for fiscal year 27. That's kind of our benchmark to budget to. Now the forecast or the budget could change, right? They're

101going to influence one another. And and in August, September, you will approve the budget and via the appropriations and the forecast. To put in perspective, we have 7,200 budget lines. No, >> we use about 2400 of them, right? So when that's what one reason why you don't see every budget line when we do this because there's it's 127 pages. All right. And and each budget line includes a fund that function that is like instructional, student support, administration, object. The object one is the easiest one because that's what you see in the forecast. salary, benefits, purchase, service, supplies, and a special cost center. And it's a way for us to either in some case restricted funds are in special costs that are easy for identify or that way we can identify by building or department for

102so for example if you looked at our budget lines if you find a special cost center 5010 510 that's Frank elementary subject at in some of the instructional we have by subject science math English and OPU's building instructional level is Iel and job and just a way for us to be able to pull information out. So there's so based on that we like I said we use 2400 budget lines. So the budgeting process it's the salaries and benefits are driven by essentially um the superintendent's cabinet looking at what we're doing for staffing. Right? So decisions about staffing before recommendations come to the board start at that level. So, you know, the buildings or departments can request staffing. We're going to approve it and then that's when it makes it into the budget. Now, we're not

103we're not really making any adding positions. We're shuffling some things around, but you and of course the board approves all those all those hires, right? So, the board this is where you have the biggest impact in terms of the cost. Just know that that's those decisions are cut at a high a higher level. Now, discretionary spending, which is actually a relatively small portion of the the budget, I work with each building principal and department head, and we go through their lines on their budget, and it could be 20, 30 lines. It's not typically a lot. So, at the buildings, their biggest chunk of money is on structural supplies. It makes sense. And then the next one, we purchase services. And then for our permanent improvement funds, we have two of them. the um director of

104operations, IT director, they for the most part budget to themselves obviously that with my they consult with me, but they're the ones setting their plans like an IT the ops and lessons plan for computers. We have that and one of the things we're going to have to we'll do this year, we'll have you approve the capital plan again that takes into account the spending. James and Brent Schaefer both have obsolescent plans, roof replacements, all that mapped out in a plan. That's how they spend their money. And then athletics, I work with both the junior high and high school athletic director. And then the last set of there are another set of supply fee budgets that are based on student fees. And what we've done, and this is a change we've made, is if you have

105a hundred students taking art and it's $10 a students, you have $1,000. That's your budget. We expect you to spend it this year. Now, not every student pays their fee, free and reduced students. It's waved. So, we the general fund will absorb that difference is we used to give each of the buildings a separate free and reduced line. That's gone away. We're just going to absorb their supply fee cost in the general fund that way. So it ends up um it ends up working out well and then the expectation is they spend it in this fiscal year. What was happening with supply fees before the fees were accumulating that if your fees are accumulating either you're not you're not spending it but you're charging too you know families too much and I think this is

106one way to address that. So we're focused on discretionary spending. One of the things we're doing this year is to look at PU per pupil spending and I've looked at trends over the last four years and we're going to make it real simple and this takes into a couple different budget lines and so the building principles have the ability to take their instructional supplies. If they want to divide up by department they can. If they want to keep it in one pot and decide that's up to them and so supplies K6 $42.50 per student and you can see the numbers. So, we're looking at actual enrollment there in the buildings. And this helps equalize particularly across the four the four elementaryaries. Okay. Paper and copying expenses. >> We're going to do something similar with this.

107Now, we have we got to figure out how to execute it all, but we're going to give each building based on their enrollment a budget line and and so not get so tight on individual quotas. So there'll probably be some kind of max put in there so one person can't run spend all their money. If a if a building principal would rather spend their money on copying, they've got their instructional supplies they could use for paper and copying. So they can they can rebudget that. But the bottom it's going to be a little bit more pressure on the building principles. But the whole idea is to make decisions at that level to to optimize how they spend you know their like all it's their money. Obviously, it's taxpayer money, right? And we do the same

108thing with purchase services and primarily that's software and some other repairs and stuff. So, that's that's a there's our high overview of our budgeting process. It's going on now. We'll finish up by May 1st and get ready for the next year. Any questions on that? So, the budgeting process will end in May or so. We roll up and in June you will approve temporary appropriations for the next. So we could start spending on July 1. Now my appro my temporary appropriations are about 80 to 90% complete. So they they could be permanent appropriations if we wanted to if I want to do that. It's kind of a splitting hairs on terminology. More than you want to know about budgeting I'm sure. But that's what we do. Want to talk about one document in your um

109in your p um financial report package. That's donations. All donations to the district should be accepted by the board. Right? That ensures compatibility with district goals. You're not accepting goods or services from people or organizations that may not be aligned with our our mission or values. It may not be appropriate, right? and and and I'm gonna in some districts this may be a okay, but for example, let's say um we have a gun shop who wants to donate firearms for a raffle. That's probably not consistent with our with our culture in this district. That's that's a maybe a little extreme, but there's some districts in Southwest Ohio that's completely appropriate. They're okay with it. Okay. And and the other thing is to make sure that tangible goods are insured and owned by the district. Band

110boosters buy a trailer. It's not the band. As soon as it comes on our property, it's ours. We're insuring it. We're taking ownership of it. And and the board's acceptance of that donation makes it, you know, makes it official. So, I just want to kind of point that out. And it seems a little bit formal sometimes, but there's a reason why we we're doing it. We're trying to do a better job of capturing all the donations we can and like even the when the foundation does things that that we're capturing it. And so this month's report it looks like this. Um you'll see an account code and and that's a receipt code and it's similar to budget codes but it's a little bit different. Um I want to talk about this. So 300 is is

111a is stu is a athletic. So these were donations to athletics. 200 is a student activity. 1,600 is is donation and then special cost center. So like each sport or each student activity has its own special cost center. And 050 is Parisburg High School. So when you see those things, it doesn't clear. I mean you're not going to remember all this stuff, but the key is look at that first number and look at the last number. If it's general fund, it's 01. And the last number, what building it's going to. Okay. All right. So, let's talk about Whirlpool. $60 million investment announced. Exciting. Good for Parisburg. Building its first solar bought in 2008. That that property bought in 2008 was bought purchased at $7 million. It's a current appraised value is 5.2 2 million with

112a assessed value of 1.8. So taxes on that are based at 1.8. We currently receive about $80,000 and for all of our levies from that current property. Okay. So it it has some coming in. Um so Whirlpool has purchased the property for $16 million. Their total investment is projected to be 60 million. Now, the point is that's not ne necessarily $60 million in valuation. Most of these projects, most of that is in equipment, which is not real property, right? So, I made I'm just this is mainly for calculation purposes. It could change. I'm assuming that the appraised value ends up being 20 million, you know, 4 million improvement. So, the assessed value then becomes $7 million. So the district would see an increase in valuation of $7 million and if they were paying taxes on

113that at the full rate it's about $35,000. So we would see an increase in revenue about $225,000. Now again that could go either way. We we we've not been in I don't know if there's any abatement on the property that we've not been involved in those discussions. Typically within the city, city ordinance requires the district to be kept whole, which really means is they ne negotiate whatever that value the valuation is the most important number on that, >> right? And then the the levies dictate what what we're paid. So my point is yes, it's going to be additional revenue. We're grateful for it, but it's not keeping us off the ballot. Okay? this if you at some point you want me to go through all the calculations detail I will but I think it hopefully

114at a high level that makes sense to you I want to point out one more thing and I'll wrap up here we are as you know a residential community $46 million or so well $41 million this year in property tax revenue right that's primarily from residents right our total class two collections is 6.5 million. Of that 41 million that we receive, 6.5 million comes from business and industry. >> Wait. Okay. Say that one more time. >> Our total collections on property tax is about 41 million. 6 and a half comes from commercial. >> Okay. Now, why is that important? We'll talk about income tax down the road, but if if an income tax replace property tax, businesses would not be paying that six and a half million. going to be paid zero because the businesses

115don't pay income tax, school income tax. That's the point. I just want to kind of keep things help you keep things in perspective um on this. It's not it's not a judgment. It's just it's just a fact of how things work. So there's our lesson. Bring on world pool. We need, you know, more of it. And the challenge when we talk about econ, we are $1.4 4 billion in total valuation for the district. Think about that. 1.4 billion. How much would it take to move that needle? And we only have 2% a land which is really the development of land. So if we're we're not going to be Rosford. My point is let's level set expectations. We can get more commercial and industrial support but we're not going to get to to the roster kind

116of level. So our residents are going to unless the state comes up are going to carry the burden. So that's tonight's uh homaly. So >> always uplifting. >> Yeah. What's that? >> It's always uplifting hearing from you. >> Well, you know, part of my job I mean is is being realistic about where we are. You know, great organizations face the brutal facts >> and and that's what we are. And it's not to bring people down. we just know what we're we're dealing with. We saw the results of what resources we have and um and so I want I just want my job is to help educate the board as we move down the way today. Mike and Aham and I had some chance to have some long conversation to start building instead of calling a

117strategic plan a comprehensive plan and that comprehensive plan is going to have a lot of chunks and details that board members you're going to have to wrap your minds around it and decisions around income tax, property tax, as well as facilities plan. So, we're we're going to try to we're going to try to help tee it up for you in small doses. >> That sounds helpful. Any other questions? Sorry, I was a little bit longer tonight than normal, but >> No, no, that's quite all right. That's quite all right. >> Okay. So, all right. All right. Do we have um a motion to I'm at 9.2 right now. that we approve the financials. >> Are are you going to do you want to combine those three or do you want to do them individually? >>

118I have 92, 93, and 94 and 95. You can if you wanted to combine all three of you may do that. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> So, okay. You're looking at me like >> that's >> okay. What's that? We we've done we we've combined a financial into multiple. >> I'm sorry I'm looking at which ones they are. So >> So 92 is a financial report. 93 is the severance fund transfer that we do annually. And 94 is the amended appropriations. So you can do them individually if you so choose, but you have the we set up the ability if you wanted to combine them. >> Okay. Do we need a motion to combine them? So the motion could actually state I move that we approve 929394. >> Yes, that'd be under 95. >> Okay. >>

119Lord looking at me like I'm crazy. >> No, I'm I'm just looking at >> I'm trying to find it over there. >> It's 9 It's 95. >> Okay. Okay. So So you want to jump down to 95 or we could do individually 92 then 93 then 94? >> It's up to you. >> Okay. So, I'm looking for a motion for any of that. Whatever y'all want to do. >> I move that we approve 9.5. >> I second. >> Okay. >> Thank you. >> Have a first a second. Any discussion? >> Who is second? >> Oh, that was >> Denise. We got to get you to >> speak up there. >> I turn my mic. I don't have a second. >> All right. Uh, any further discussion? >> All right. We're gonna jump right in. I'm

120gonna I'm gonna make a comment on this. Um we with the move into the severance fund, we are looking in the future because of the amount of um retirements that we have this year, we need to beef that up because it it has a I don't know what would you call that? A draw down on on it over three years. >> Three years. So we we really we keep a close eye on it to make sure that we have sufficient funds in there >> and I have attached in there kind of a projection on where we're going and and Miss Minky's exactly right 300,000 this year is enough but in level retirements next year we may have to may have to look at a little bit larger amount and that what that again Denise and

121Casey in particular that allows us to have 12 retirements this year and not have that swings out of general funds. that general fund is even year-toear and we let the the severance fund go up and down and this is the first time we've really going to pull more than we could put in. >> Okay. All right. Roll call. Mr. Dur. >> Miss Mankey. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. Uh, Miss Meny, do you want to add anything to the uh, finance committee minutes? You kind of just did, but do you want to add anything more? >> No, I think that I think that was it. So, >> okay. All right. Well, then we are morphing along here to 101 board committees and discussion. Student

122achievement. I was not prepared. >> I can start. Um, okay. We met >> We're going to 10 two first. Oh, >> that's okay. >> I'm student achievement. >> Yeah, we're good. >> Okay. Student achievement met on April 7th. Um so some of the highlights we talked about the 2627 um testing schedule and we discussed yet another house bill um 96 which does a lot of things but um it will um impact the way we assess our students um in the younger grades with those diagnostic assessments. Um and so we'll need to kind of look at that. They're looking at that. They're looking at um programs and things like that that um will need to be approved. Um we have applied for a computer science grant to look at K12 STEM offerings. We are currently entering

123our second year of curricular review for STEM. Um and so they are keeping an eye on what that's going to look like and any changes that are going to be made to that curriculum. Um they had another grading practices meeting. um and they're kind of at the place where they're looking at policy and administration guidelines revamps and so it's going to transition to Rachel um Zicker and the policy team. So, um that will kind of shift that way. Um and then they're also looking at professional development offerings for teachers. Um we got to hear about the summer reading academy which was something I was very excited to hear about. Um this is um a targeted instruction for our students who are struggling the most with reading. Um, it help prevents a bit of that summer

124slide that we see from students over the summer. Um, and improves those foundational skills that the science of reading is really pushing, things like funological awareness and, you know, being able to hear sounds and things in in their reading. Um, this will be three days per week for six weeks and it will take place at Frank. Um, we heard a little bit about the Ksix math committee. um they are currently really in discussions about what does good mathematical teaching look like and what does the research say about that. So how can we ensure that we are following best practices and researchbased practices in instruction on math. Um and I think that was kind of a high level overview of everything we went over. I don't know Denise if there's anything you want to add. >>

125The only other thing was the um author visits coming up but we already talked about that. My apologies for getting you out of order. 10 1 doesn't match the order of 10 2 10 3 10 4 and I was looking at 10 one. That's how we that's how we did that little song and dance right there. So glad to see y'all awake. Um okay. Um anything else on on that one? There's a lot that's that's a really that's a heavy committee. So that there's a lot going on in that. Um do you want to go into uh community engagement? >> Um so in community engagement we had um two main um topics. We talked about ideas to engage the board with comm with the community and we talked about um the ways to engage the

126community on the um financials and income tax and levy uh possibilities. So, I'm going to talk about the board community engagement and Casey's going to talk about the financial engagement. Do you have a preference for what you get first? >> No, you two can fight over it. Is is this >> That goes with me. Okay. >> Do you want me to go first? Okay. >> Thank you for the handout. >> So, I have a handout for everybody. Um it's in the name can be changed, but we're calling it the one table conversation community engagement initiative. So, the core idea is that a community member um hosts a small informal gathering. We're thinking five to six people, inviting three to four friends and neighbors, at least one schoolboard member. Um we would like it if each

127schoolboard member that is invited to one of these might be able to bring another schoolboard member with them as well. Um but at least one schoolboard member. Um and uh the host leads the gathering. Anyone in the community can volunteer to be a host. The host invites people they already know to keep it comfortable. Um, and the school board either can assign or if one per school board member is personally invited by the community member, they can invite another schoolboard member. Um, and then the goal is to keep it flexible. Um, whatever works for the host, whether that's a coffee meetup, whether that's a dessert um, event, you know, a backyard hangout, whatever, whatever works for the community member. No pressure to entertain us, of course. Um, and the keys to making it successful is

128that a it's not a formal meeting. B, it's not a complaint session. And C, it's not recorded or governed like a board meeting. So, it's a casual conversational relationship focused meeting with board members. >> Did I miss anything, Casey? >> No, I don't. >> And how often are these? So, our recommendation to the board is that um each board member participate in one a quarter. Wait, let me make sure we didn't change it. >> Nope, that was very Okay. um each board member participate in one a quarter to start with um is was our um recommendation. >> Okay. So it's not to I I don't mean to downplay this at all, but it so it's it's kind of like our our coffee chats >> type of an idea, right? >> And two board members there

129and you're gathering the host is gathering their community. Yeah, I think our thought is instead of hosting it at the library, right, we're asking community members to support and kind of bring in their circle of people. Um, and so it just has that more personal feel and personal touch because you are actually being invited specifically to attend this event. Um, schoolboard members will be available. Ideally, two board members would be there so that they can hear various perspectives and they're not just getting one perspective. Um, but the the hope is that we're creating, right, we I feel like Parisburg is a big small community, right? There are plenty of people I don't know, but I feel like I know a lot of people. Um, and this just opens up the opportunity for us to really

130kind of expand our reach um, and get to know those people that may not be in our circle um, of influence so that they can talk to board members, right? And by having a host, they're choosing the time location, right? We're not just putting times out there and hoping people can make it. They're actually organizing it, if that makes sense. >> So, the board member could be a host or just an attendee. >> Just whatever you wanted. >> I think it can go either way. I think ideally we'd get to a place where we are having someone host kind of like um a Mary Kay party if you will or a um right like those kind of parties where you are asking friends to set this up for you and then you come and are

131available. Um so that way it's it's just more I think um community based. It's not something where we're just waiting hoping people show up. This has been planned and scheduled and people are coming because they want to come and speak and talk to board members. >> I think sounds kind of cool >> actually. >> So it should just feel really host one. >> I call dibs on Mark. >> See what happens when you're the last man standing. >> Should have ducked out. Good for you. Something we all need to do. >> Okay. So, at this point, is this still something that you're discussing or is this something that you want us to get moving on right away? Where are we at? >> So, this is something we're presenting to see if feedback everyone is comfortable

132with it and it wants to move forward with it. >> Okay. So, once >> obviously we're not here to force you to do something you're not comfortable doing. Well, >> well, we're on school board. We're always doing stuff. Um, Laura, what what do you what do you think? >> I think they're a good idea. >> Um, you know, if they want to host them in their home, if they I mean, I'm not opposed to them being host at a community park. >> Oh, yeah. Absolutely. >> If if you have some kids that you need to entertain and play at the same time that you know we're chatting, that that's fine. >> So, yeah, I think whatever works for the host, honestly, wherever they want to hold it. They certainly do not have to invite us

133into their homes. not want to be in my house with my 104 pound dog. >> I mean, at night, actually, >> and if I if I have to come to a soccer field or a lacrosse field and hit up the parents at in the parking lot, that's fine, too. >> Perfect. Well, we appreciate your willingness because I know this is putting you out there and um I just think it's it's going to be a really good way to make that community feel even smaller. >> So, how does this actually get rolling? >> Well, that's an excellent question. I don't we are very we are very new to this if you haven't noticed >> we're vision >> we are the big picture I don't know >> so u so obviously like we can personally reach out

134to our acquaintances I already have reached out to a few um I don't know if we are can we use a public forum like is can we use the Parisburg schools Facebook to say like put a graphic together and put that out there or is that not I don't know >> I don't know what the rules are Yeah. >> So, maybe we put that out there now. >> Okay. >> Awesome. >> All right. So, um we're basically basically what I I I'm looking for the homework assignment. So, basically, we're looking for um each of us to find somebody in our circle of influence that will host one of these wherever, however they wish. And so, if it's one of somebody from people that I know, then I would probably go and then I try to

135find one of you guys that's available to go as well. Yep. >> And then we >> So you'd be participating in two a quarter at the minimum, but you'd be kind of the lead on one of them. >> Not necessarily the host, but it is kind of your your circle of influence for one of them. >> Okay. I think I think it sounds I think it sounds like a great idea. It when when you're creating the opportunity, that's already out there and you're not just throwing spaghetti at the wall. I think that has a greater a greater chance of of helping um get information out there. And right now there's so much information out there, so much that I wasn't even able to get my report written up for y'all. So, I'm I owe you

136that. And I'm assuming we can go ahead and attach it to the agenda later or attach it to the work session agenda. But um I think it sounds like a a great idea to at least try and see. >> Awesome. >> It Yes, Mr. English >> public. >> Sure. We'll take anything we can get. >> I commend the idea. I think it fits in with the build district, school board. I support having the host not being a school board member because there's power issue in there. I'm also thinking as far as attendance. How large are you hoping that happen? >> Go ahead. >> We were hoping like four to six. >> I don't think just one school member. I think the hope is that in inviting two school board school two school board members you

137are getting maybe some opposing viewpoints some you know I'm getting access to people that I may not know from Sue and Denise and Laura's circle of influence. Um, I think it's important that we put ourselves out in positions where we may not know the people and they may not know us so that they can start to learn who we are as a group and who we are individually. Um, so that we are more approachable as they see us out and about. Um, and so we can certainly look at increasing the attendance, but I do think that there's great value in having two school board members um, who may not necessarily align and agree on everything, showing that we're coming together still to support the community in the schools. I think that was kind of the

138vision behind why we wanted two members. >> And and I would I'm guessing that you're also looking for different levels of experience, different areas of experience. Yeah. >> And all of our committees that we're on. >> Yeah. >> Well, and I would say the four to six is is just a suggestion. It it could be more. We didn't want to put a lot of pressure on someone to be like you got to find 12 people, you know, like so it's it's hopefully a low pressure, you know, kind of ask It's always the listening part. Yeah, it's always the listening part. But that's what this tour that that's what I see this as being is that we're listening and the other people are listening to and you're having a conversation which is really becoming a unique

139thing. And so if we can provide that >> Yeah. especially the future attorneys. Um I think I think that has a lot of potential. So where where do we go from this point? Do you need to do more fine-tuning to actually get this rolled out? >> I can reach out to Rachel and maybe create a little graphic or something initially and ask for her feedback and see if she's willing to help me share it with the community. Like I said, I already reached out to some folks myself personally just to see if they would be interested just to >> just to get some feedback on it. >> It hurts to put that ask out there now so that we're just getting feelers to see how many people would be interested in hosting. >> Well, that's

140true because if you're if you're coming up with a goose egg, then you might have to go back to the drawing board before you even get out of the gate. Well, and I think the graphic from Rachel would help because then people that, you know, might not necessarily be in any of our circles of influence, which is definitely a possibility, right? Um, and they're interested. We're getting that from then kind of like a third party. So, >> I think it sounds like it could be a lot of fun. Really >> bring it on. >> I mean, it's it's always the best part of of going out during a campaign is to actually be able to talk to people. That's the best part. Um, so I I see I see this as taking away all the

141stress and anxiety of the campaign and just getting the best part of it and just talking to people and hearing what they want and hear and and us being able to answer some questions and questions that we can't answer, we come back and talk to these guys and Mike's out the door already trying to get home. So, uh, yeah, we can rely on him as well. So, I think this has a lot of potential. I'm excited about this. So, well done. Well done you. >> Um, >> mostly Denise. >> Yes. Very excited about that. Okay. Um, and I >> we have one more piece. >> That's right. We've got another piece >> within the community engagement group. We've been spending a lot of time talking about how do we get that financial information out there

142in a way that is digestible to community members who aren't maybe familiar with finance or school finance in particular. Um and so you've seen some of Ry's celebrity um videos has done a great job. He's not going to be able to go to the grocery store here soon without a hat and sunglasses on. Um, but so what we did was we put together a list of like the top 10, like the top 10 things you have to know about school funding written in people friendly language, not financial friendly language. Um, so I have this list of top 10 and we shared it with Randy for input. Um, and there's definitely some areas where we'll need Ry's support in terms of getting um, like specific Parisburg pie charts and graphs to make it really visually appealing

143and something that we can really look at and get the information from immediately. Um, but I have the top 10 if you want me to read them, but otherwise they're working on getting that information out. >> Wow. >> Okay, I'll go very quickly. Um, number one, your property taxes are doing the heavy lifting and we know that you are exhausted. Okay. Okay. And then it kind of goes into the science and research behind that. We have number two, the state chips in, but way less than you'd think. Um, Ohio spent a record number or a record amount on education in um financial years or fiscal year 2025, but it still isn't enough. Um, Ohio's because it's not keeping up with inflation. I want to make clear. >> Yeah. Well, yeah, that that comes up. Um,

144Ohio's school funding was ruled unconstitutional four times. Um there was a real fix in the works with the fair school funding plan, but lawmakers have never fully funded that. Um school vouchers are increasing and this isn't going away. It is pulling money directly from our public schools pockets. Um and then our local levy is truly survival. We have to have it. There is no other option currently. Um and then 90% of Ohio kids are in public schools. So, the money should go with the kids who are at public schools because they need our support. Um, and so there were a couple of other things that we were looking at in terms of, you know, we're a really big employer for Wood County. Um, and so kind of comparing the idea of, you know, that impact

145of having to lay off 25% of a team, it would be insurmountable for businesses. And so the idea that schools are going to be potentially asked to do that and then still provide adequate instructional experiences for our students is it's something you can't you you you won't be able to do. Um so that was kind of our our top 10 and each of those has like some you know pieces within it with percentages and we're creating some graphics to show like this is not just a Parisburg problem. This is a state of Ohio problem. you're seeing this happening in top school districts that you know are similar to ours. Um and it's it we have to get out in front of it and so we want to make sure that the community understands and we're

146saying it in you know terms that people understand so that they're able to then share with others. >> So is this information then I I love I love the top 10 thing that's that's awesome especially being in people language because people like me need that language. No offense, Randy. Um, but how are we disseminating this? >> So, right now, Randy, >> nicely done. >> Randy is our guy. Um, I do think we can create some graphics that will go along with that, and that's something that we talked about in the meeting. Um, but right now, Randy is kind of taking the charge in his videos to share out this information. >> Okay. So, could I suggest, especially if we're going to work handinand glove with what Denise just presented, that this be created like a

147little a little handbook that we can take with us or that we can give out at these? >> Yeah, I think having an infograph I think having an info infographic easy onepage front side >> y >> would be perfect. So, we can talk about that with Rachel and and Jeff. >> I'm going to screen print it on a shirt as well. Where is it? >> There you go. I like that we could do that. >> All right. >> And and and we are using that list, Rachel and I, as we discuss each week. Right now, we're kind of we're letting the the the stream kind of carry us a little bit based on questions that come up and how trying to link topics and but it's it's it's good feedback. And tomorrow we're going to

148video a couple more and we'll deal with a lot of that first that first question. So, >> okay. So, for the people who have not seen or heard your um finance classes, um where can where can they go to find them? Facebook. Our Facebook page. Okay. Are they in a folder or something? Or do you just have to scroll endlessly until you find them? >> You just look uh if you go to Facebook and you you put in the Perryburg schools, you're going to see him come up and then it'll show you the series. Once once you see one, they'll just they'll it will know your algorithm and it will send them to you. So the algorithm. >> Okay. You never get enough of Randy. >> It must not be wor because I was in

149Churchills yesterday in and out and no one costed me. So >> no one costed you. No in time, Randy. >> Yeah, there you go. >> In time, Randy. They will be a costing you. I know. >> You have, you know, one. >> I know. I know another one. But yeah, it um we check the legalities on it of where we could do it and it would change maybe how it's written if we wanted to do things like that. Um okay. So, how are we doing? You guys rocked it. That was amazing. Thank you so much for everything that you've been doing. >> That was awesome. I'm excited about this. Okay. So, can we move into the consent agenda which covers items 12 through 16? Are we okay to do that? >> Can I request that

150we pull 16.1? >> 16.1 has an issue. Okay. So, 16.1 is the Parisburg school policy manual update for spring 2022. 26. That was a combination, wasn't it? Spring 2026 second reading. There we go. Um all right. Yes, we can pull that um for a separate discussion. Are there any other changes to the consent agenda? >> I hear discussions. >> That's the only one I have. >> That's the only one you have. We're Okay. All right. Then as I understand it, then I would come to uh do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So amended. >> Second. >> Okay. >> Laura and Denise. >> Okay. >> All right. M roll call. Mr. Durer. >> Miss Minkkey. >> Yes. Miss Phillips, >> yes. >> Miss Haywood, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. Okay,

151so let's let us pop down to 161. Okay, I'm going to try this again. We'll see if I do it right. Can we pull policy and policy 5530.01 for further consideration? Do I need to go into more details about it? I don't know how this >> No, I think you're doing a fine job. Okay. So, we're going to be >> So, you're saying all of the rest of it is okay, but you want to pull those two. Could you give me give me those numbers again? >> Yes. Policy 2431, intercolastic athletics, and policy 5530.01, co-curricular code of conduct and drug testing. >> Okay. 5530.01. 01. Okay. >> It looks like in her notes that they was removed from this update. >> Oh, did I did I print this too soon? >> Um I'm I'm looking

152at page >> I don't have page numbers on. >> Okay. So, if you look on 16 Parisburg schools policy manual update down you get to know changes from first reading in big bold print policy 7540. Below that it says removing from this update policy 2431 policy 5530.01. 01. >> There you go. Wait, where is it? Oh, >> so those were those were removed from the update. >> Okay, go. Well, maybe it's easy to show you online. Okay, so see there's the beginning of it and then you've got a great big bold note. Then right down below it are the two that you were talking about. >> Okay. They're still included below though. Does that ma does that not matter? They're still included in here. Or at least they were when I printed this yesterday. Let's

153see. Maybe I printed it too soon. >> Have they Have they been actually removed, Randy? >> I don't know. >> I'm looking at this pack. >> Let's look through this. >> See right here, policy 2431, intercolastic athletic under proposed changes, bylaws and policies, volume 44, number two. Looks like the intent was to remove them, but they were not may not have been removed. >> So, I apologize that I missed the note. No, that's quite all right. And then here's 5530.01 test. >> Okay. So, they have not been there's a note saying that they've been removed, but they have not been removed. So, so >> I would to simplify things, I would recommend that assume the board's interest to make a motion to approve those items with with the removal of those two policies and the

154board >> makes sense. >> Okay. All right. Anybody want to make that motion that you understand what what we're doing here? So it would be basically coming up with a motion that says I approved the second reading with the re with the revival of >> the two policies that Denise brought up there. >> So moved. >> Okay. >> As well you said it. >> I guess I Yeah, you said it might as well. Yeah, that's fine because I basically was just saying so we we are approving the the motion is stating that we approve the second reading with the removal of policy 2431 and policy 5530.01 and case Casey uh moved for that and I need a second. >> Okay, Denise second. Any further discussion? Well, that was very effective, please. >> Realizing that I

155missed two lines. >> I'm impressed though. That's very good discussion. Why? What are we like still examining these? >> We're approving everything but those two. We're pulling those two for future. >> Yeah. >> I think there are some questions about those two. Okay. Specifically, and the expectations within those two. >> Okay. Okay. >> Okay. >> So, for the third reading, we can assume that it will be everything that's in here except for those two policies will be officially removed for the third reading. Okay. >> All right. Mr. Drew, roll call. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips? >> Yes. >> Miss Minky? >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. Okay. I have no idea where I'm at. Um, we are at Well, okay. So, 162 through five, those were in the consent agenda, correct?

156Dr. Okay. And then we're at public comment, but Mr. English already spoke, so now we're into the real big one. Okay. So, normally board discussion we can get get past. Um, but we do have a lot of things on on this board discussion that we wanted to go over. Who wants to go first? Anybody? Anybody? This is >> You guys talk yourselves out >> about the evaluation? >> Yeah, now would be a good time. Let me pull up your email. >> Okay. So, I have been noodling um around with the um superintendent and treasure evaluation performance or performance evaluation kind of templates. And um I have a rough draft, a first draft that I'm going to share out with everyone to get feedback on. I will tell you um that I used the five Ohio

157superintendent standards, the vision and improvement, communication, governance, instruction, and resources. Um and those come straight from ODA, BASA, and OSBA. And then with the treasures, I built it around the five treasurer standards. Um, and so ideally these should be a pretty good outline of um, what we're hoping to see from our administrators. Um, so I won't spend too much time talking about it because I do think that you guys are going to want to look at it and really dig into it. Um, but I do just want you to know that I I used all of the online resources I could find and I used all of the emails that Sue sent me from past evaluations. >> Sorry. >> Um, Nope, you're fine. And I kind of gelled everything together to create a more cohesive

158plan and so hopefully um this will be useful and I am very open to any feedback. So please, please, please let me know. >> That was a board evaluation. The question is, what is your proposed timing? I'm just being practical here. Obviously, you know, Katie's only here, so it's not an issue, but >> Okay, >> I'll talk to you. >> Yes. So, ideally, if we were starting a school year, we would be looking at kind of a pre-con conversation in the beginning of the year to talk about goals and hopes. We'd do a mid-year checkpoint and then we do an end of the year evaluation. Okay. with you since you're the only one here right now. Um the hope is that we would at least be able to do an endofthe-year conversation with you. Um

159hopefully utilizing this as an outline, but knowing that we wouldn't have your input with goals and things like that from the beginning of the year, but it would be a good kind of ramp up to see how it feels and how it fits. >> Because I'm I'm going to point out just education point. If hopefully we're ne the board's never in the situation of non-renewal that timing is really important because if you don't non-renew was it April 1st Katie then con you can't do it afterwards you so your superintendent treasur and any administrator would get another one-year contract. The other thing now past practice has been for for potential raise increases have been based on those evaluations. >> Sure. So, I'm just suggesting the board think about timing on that. I realize you're exactly right.

160>> I I appreciate goals midyear check, but you you might want to think about spring rather than end of year. >> So, it would have to be done before April 1, like well before so that there's time to >> the nice thing if you're going to do a midyear, you have the ability >> there will be touch points, right? It shouldn't come out of the blue. It should this should be an ongoing conversation, but so before April 1st, the final evaluation would need to be completed. >> Yes. Okay, perfect. And you'll be our guinea pig. So, >> you missed your deadline. >> Best wishes. >> Damn you. >> I had so much to say. >> But the love is there. That's what counts. >> Okay. No, I told him I said the love was there

161and that's what counts. So, all right. So, if you could help us to make sure that we've got the timeline where it needs to be because that was the only guidance that I had for her from what I had done of my research when I redid these when holy cow that was when Ry was president. We had the board that over on that wall looking this way. So, the room was like turned. um was that we it it was suggested that there be two sessions, one a goal setting and one a reflective final type of thing and then moving on. So, if there's if there are laws and and salary schedulings and all of those dates, if you could get that to KC and meet me so that we can make sure that we're working

162on the right thing at the right time. >> And I think um I I appreciate the effort from from my seat as one of your employees because it's been over the four years inconsistent. >> Oh, yeah. Very much. >> My last evaluate was in the fall, right? It should have been in the spring. We had a salary freeze, so it didn't affect >> things, but it's still that's the the not it's all about salary. It's about the feedback, too. >> And I think that's yeah, where I'm coming from as an educator, right? Like I hate if no one is observing me and telling me the great things I'm doing and also areas where I can grow. And so I'm really hoping that this is a doable form that we can get on board with and

163just get this into our rhythm um to set you guys up for more success because you deserve those conversations as well. >> Um >> yeah. Um, one thing that, um, Katie and I talked about that I mentioned to Casey that is, I think, going to be incredibly valuable because you don't know what you don't know until you know it, right? Um, and it sounds like uh miraculously Randy and Mike were also even talking about it and expanding a strategic plan to be a comprehensive plan which has all things considered. Um, and what Katie did was showed me three examples of um, strategic plans. And I don't think it's too much of an exaggeration to say that you watched my jaw hit the table. Is that pretty close? Yeah. Um, and I mean, I didn't know

164anything differently than what we already have. I mean, we have a strategic plan, but compared to what she showed me, it was anemic at best. So, um, my task is to go through these documents, and I know Mike has a good one from Solen as well, and of course, he worked on theirs, so there's there's that bonus, too. But to see how these kinds of strategic plans lay the foundation for not only evaluations, but for board meetings for our department heads to work and report and work with our two employees. And I was blown away. I mean, I was truly blown away. And that's what makes this position slashjob so awesome to do because the learning constantly happens and that was a huge one and so I'm really excited to dive into that um and

165and learn a little bit more about it. So there, that was something that we knew last year if we hadn't gotten so derailed um with everything else that was going on. That was something that we wanted to work on last year so that it would be ready to roll out for this year because this is really when it's due. And now I am so grateful that we didn't do that because we may have just repeated the same errors. So, this is a huge light bulb here that we'll be working on. So, I'm I'm kind of excited about this. So, give me give me some minutes to digest some of this and then I think we've got the potential for really big great positive changes on this. Um, then we've got um I think we've already

166hit all the things with finance. You all got the the uh email that Susan sent, right? >> She sent that to everybody. Okay. Was there anything in there that you wanted to talk about? one that if I don't I've got my finger right on it, so I'm going to put it right on here right now. Um, we talked about at our last work session the possibility of having an extended work session to do whatever we needed to do, whether it was um working more things with with Michael or um working more on the horrendous financial information that this board is going to have to learn and to understand and plan for whatever we want to do. And that's probably a big focus of what a work session would be. Is there a time that you

167guys would be available to do that because I know your schedules are wicked rough and it's hard for us to get together. A work session does not have to be at the crack of dawn on a Wednesday morning. we can reschedu it for a time that we can all be together so that we can have an hour and a half or even two if you want to to be able to work on it. So, did did anybody kind of noodle on that at all? >> Is it possible to send out like a >> Yeah, a doodle, right, where it has dates listed and then people can choose so that way because opening it up is too big for me. I have no idea. But I think if we had some choices, I could plan for

168that. >> Okay. Are you teaching this summer? >> I am, but it's online. It It's nothing. >> Okay. All right. And is that something that we could ask Hannah to do that? She sent one out once before that I couldn't access and I I I don't know if it was because I didn't want to access it because it was asking for all this personal information. So >> yeah, >> should just be your like you literally should just be able to check the dates, put your email in. Yeah. >> So we'll make sure it comes through Google. We did do those for a while and those were real nice. >> Probably will have to be logged into your board account. Yeah. To do it. >> Okay. >> Because that's the email we'll send it to. So,

169but we'll make sure that gets done. >> So, if we can do that again, then we won't run into any problems. Is is that okay with everybody >> to go ahead and and see how that works out? >> Laura, if you have a preference on day of the week, that'd probably be a really good place to start. I know. Just it kind of depends on what time of the month it is >> and what probably time of the day too, right? >> Yes. Yes. >> Yeah. Would you rather um would you like me to sprinkle in beginning of the day, end of the day? >> Yes, that would be great. >> All right, that's what we'll do then. >> Okay, thank you. >> And Sue, if I may add to Susan's email and Laura can

170back out on finance. We talked about some things in finance and finance doing more um you know some brainstorming and putting some things together as our group. So within that framework we're you know figure out how we can subdivide if you will some of it you know for example with financial decisions maybe we might come back with a list of financial decisions within that framework that have to be made and so we're going to do that um as part of our finance agenda when we can too. >> Okay. Awesome. Anything that can help people like me know how to explain this clearly and understanding it would be just a a blessing beyond all reason because I I feel like sometimes I get enough information to be dangerous and then I get my tongue tangled up.

171Um, and I don't want to I don't want to do that. I don't want to do that. So I know that if I understand it, I can teach it to anybody because that's what I I'm teacher so I should be able to do that. But I just I don't feel solid on it completely. Um >> Sue, my my suggestion is teach it then you have to learn it. >> But there you go. That's right. All right. On on >> I get some educator head nods. Oh. >> Um, and I know these are these are just Susans, but um I have a couple of things that I think that we really need to look at. >> Okay. um long-term one is um and this is again going back to um some things within the state that

172they're working on and that is um workforce needs. I think we really need to pay attention to that and within that um I don't know if you want to call it future careers because I think we I I think some enlightenment into um what careers are going to be coming of age is really important. >> Um okay. Well, nobody has a glass ball, but I I think what you're I think what you're if I may is what you're saying that you want to see something from the board to give some sort of guidance that we are addressing this area. >> Well, or that are that like Brent and his team are addressing. >> Yes. Because we talk about community engagement, but is that with just our voting population of our community? >> What about the

173workforce and the main or um the business side of our community? >> Hey, that's a good idea. >> We have we have the BAC. >> Yeah. >> But I think it's something that we need to look at more in terms of strategic plan. And then with that, like I said, your subject areas. I mean, look at it as career goals because one of the things that they're talking about is helping these kids see like imagine what their future is going to be, what their career is going to be. And that it's not a you're going to go to college and do this. It's a you're going to take this step and then you're going to take this step. So, we kind of have to let them, you know, help them with the let's build the

174rungs of your ladder and not just, you know, you're going to springboard up there to that that top rung, which I I think we talked about, Mr. in not this past student achievement meeting but maybe the previous one we talked about looking at the I want to say it was a curriculum maybe about starting that conversation much younger for our students so they are developing those skills earlier on to determine pathways they could be interested in am I wrong >> there's legislation that's that's being discussed It's changing high school, >> but it is on the radar. We have talked about it >> and maybe >> take ownership of that. Yeah, I think you're you're right and it's a direction we have to be looking and I I think that we're doing that work now in

175trying to figure out what that looks like. And so maybe if we have ideas on what that looks like or uh things that you know you've seen that have been successful or whatever, this would be a time to start having those conversations because it is coming and we know it's coming and so we're we're thinking about it and what that would mean. >> But I Just a second, Mr. English. I think it would be kind of interesting to I mean, when when you mentioned, you know, in light of what Denise and Casey were talking about coffee coffee, for lack of a better word, coffee clutches with businesses, um, business leaders um and and I'm kind of thinking, um, Dr. instead of of Chad's breakfastes that he's having something like that that he's he's doing. I

176mean, we had community leaders at at that one. I I can't no offense, Sheriff Ocelian, but I don't really see that happening at that particular lunchon. You know, we do >> that's his lunchon, too. That's not Yeah, that's not that's not >> And don't for don't forget you have a very active business advisory council, >> very active >> that is very influential on the career and community stuff that's happening at the high school and junior high and even HBI stuff >> and working with Christine. It probably uh Christine already it might be a good uh upboard update for a work session to have Christine come in and talk about the workforce readiness uh work that we're doing at the high school where we're plugging kids in how we use the business advisory council to know

177what directions to take what curriculum to consider. So there's there are some course changes coming at the high school um that we're getting ready to um talk about for scheduling. So why don't we have Mr. Schwarz Miller and maybe Miss Albbright uh provide an update to the board. That'd probably be a good idea so you can see what work is already underway there. We don't I mean we're certainly anticipating state things will come out of the state legislature, but we're usually way ahead of that. So let's let's have um let's have an update there. >> Okay, >> I can take care of that. That'd be a good work session topic, I think. >> Okay, I think that sounds like good idea. Okay. Um, all right. Are there um there any other things that anybody wanted

178to comment about her um her email that she sent under community engagement? I think we are doing quite a bit of what was already on there. Um the retreat, we have started working on the retreat with with Michael. Um and so we're in the process of getting some of that fine-tuned. Um the date is and and you saw this in the buzz, the date is is June 27th. It's going to be at the hack center. Um, and so we're we're working on getting getting that kind of pulled together. Um, under policy and governance, she says create a board of education handbook. I she doesn't really define what that is. And that was something that I have wanted to do since I've been on the board. There were two of those things that I've always wanted

179to do. Gretch and I almost got it started and then things took us away from it. So, under handbook, what do you see a definition of that being and what do you see the vision of that being? Or do you not even want to do it? There's that option, too. I hadn't even thought about that because I've been zeroed in on it because I've always wanted to do it. But what do you see as a definition or a vision? >> I think it would be useful. Is it in my top two or three priorities right now? No. Um I and I there's one more suggestion that I have that it's it's kind of tucked in something that's kind of tucked in finance, but I think we need to pull out and make it make it

180a separate item. So >> Okay. All right. So you got another financing. Okay, Casey. I think I would like some time to look at other board of education handbooks and see what I can find and what it does and how valuable it would be for the time I think it would take to create. Um I mean certainly I think it it would be helpful to have a guiding um book of expectations and things that we're all living by. Um but I would like to dig in a little more to what some of those could look like. >> What they could look like. >> Yeah. Yep. >> To understand it better. >> All right. So, see if we can find some of that, maybe share them amongst ourselves. Um, all right. Um, we talked about the

181eval process and getting dates on that. I'm looking at all of my notes. Um, okay. What did you want to add, Laura? under finance. There's a part in there basically about um facilities. Well, I mean this has more to do well this is kind of more like PI levy and bond, but um I think we definitely need to have um a separate pull out with facilities and where we're going with that and a long-term plan. >> Okay. So basically um a facilities plan and well I think that that's kind of what Randy was getting at earlier when he was talking with Mike that you've got a strategic plan, you've got a facilities plan, you've got um what was the weren't there three things? I thought there were three things. Um but yeah, I think I

182do agree. Oh, just the PI itself. But that's something that James and I don't know how James does does this. I think it's so mind-boggling how he sets up the PI levy for every five years and has all of those jobs all set up. But it's good to see that every once in a while and review it. >> I think it would be beneficial for everyone to see like um just some basic costs that we know that are coming up. um kind of some ground rules to are we still at OFCC? Are is that the current initials? Okay. Um things like that just so you have an idea and and basically also too when you're working with a state project time frame. So I mean that puts helps put things in perspective. So >> and

183part of that I think in S now Susan's not here but we've talked about for example we spend $300 to $500,000 or more out of general fund for capital projects. What if we reexamine that and build that into the permanent improvement ask and what does that do to general fund thing? So the two are the what we need to spend on facilities is kind of there's there's a given but there's also then its impact on the general fund. So they are linked and I think part of sus Susan including that was was for that linkage >> because you know you know philosophically again I'm speaking for her a little bit is that she has a problem that we're spending capital out of general fund. it's not operating but you know but that's that's where you

184know that's obviously where we we need to spend it obviously we wouldn't do it. So that's part of that linkage in there and the conversation the board's got to figure out how to to deal with >> because that particular fund within the general fund can go to PI or it can go that's one of the ones that can go back and forth. Right. >> Again it's it's it's it's >> it's not totally dedicated. >> There's many districts don't have a PI fund. >> Okay. >> Right. We we use PI right as a meaning have a certain meaning within a general fund. It's it's the same thing. Anything that's a capital asset falls in there kind of and other things. So it's it's just we have a PI fund separate to do that. But it's not

185there's not a restriction um from a general fund standpoint how you spend that money. PI is restricted to those things but general fund is not if that makes sense and we so James and I are always making that calculation like the sidewalks at prank that need replaced he doesn't have any PI money to do it the city is telling us we have to do it and so I'm looking at the it's got to come on it's got to come somewhere and so we got to find you know we have general fund money to do it now what if we funded PI differently so GI so the general fund didn't have to do that but that's a calculation we got to think about. So the next PI asks, do you ask for X amount more and

186say we're not going to spend any PI out of general fund? Which means ask for general funds a little bit smaller, right? Those are the complicated decisions, right? Because the feeling that the community is liable to support PI money because it's for our facilities faster than they will operating money for salaries for our staff. that I hope I I that makes sense and this is the conversation Susan of I've I've had. So that's why it's in her her recommendation and in the and and to uh Laura's point I mean obviously it's a big it's a big deal and it's not just James's piece it's it's the IT piece too. >> That's true. Yeah. >> Okay. Because all the technology we add has an obsolescent cycle has to be included in that conversation. Yeah, because that's

187such a huge expense anymore. Okay. So, have we beat this to death now? >> All right. So, she comes down here and she's made it well known that she does not approve of the board of distinction award. Um, the reason why I brought it up was because it it's only happens in a certain amount of time. So you have to do the work has to fall within a short time parameter roughly a year and a half. If you do something like creating a handbook, which you can earn points for, but it's not within the timeline that you're garnering points for this, then it doesn't count. Good example, my master board member award. Big whopping number of points. However, it's outside of this time cycle because I'm in the 2025 class and this award is for

18826 27. So, that doesn't count. And that's why I got interested in this. I'd never even heard of it before and we were doing some work down at the state and I came across this and I thought, "Holy cow, there are so many things on this list that I had handed out to you before that we are doing." And I my gosh, we could very few boards, very few boards across the state are able to earn this award. Um, and I think yeah, you can look and I I and I'm probably not explaining it right because you put the word award into it. So, it sounds very self um gratifying and that's not what what I'm trying to get this to do. A lot of people don't know what we do. they they don't they

189don't understand the amount of work that we put in or the hours that we spend. This is a delineation of a lot of the work that we do. I mean, look at the amount of time that Casey spent on pulling together that um that evaluation form and having to read all the gazillion emails that I said or poor thing. um the stuff that that Denise was doing and in getting, you know, this the the award done tonight. Um we all know the amount of work that we put into getting a new superintendent, the hours involved in that that was pretty much up front and center to the public. Um, when I looked through this, um, board members create maintain a formalized orientation process for new board members. Boom. We we've done that. We just have

190to get it in writing and put it in a kind of a document so that it can be used every year. And Dr. Anststead did a great job in actually formalizing that that it wouldn't be that hard to put together. So that's a a done. Um board members create or participate in an annual board self assessment. Well, that is something that we should have always been doing and we haven't. And I think that that would be a very simple thing for us to do. Um, with two educators on the board, we know how important self-reflection is. And I think that that would be a very simple thing to do. Um, the other one, board members create or participate in an active strategic plan. Hello. That's what we're going to be working on this year and

191into next year possibly. So, we would all I mean, this is something that we're going to do. These are the mandatory things that we have to have. Board members create and or maintain a board handbook. Okay. So, there's there's that something that we've talked about. Board members are involved in reviewing andor updating the district's policy manual. Hello. We just did that tonight. So, there right there. Right there was 20 points. 20 points. Just what we did tonight. board members attend an OSBA regional spring or fall conference. Well, we kind of missed the spring conference because we had this superintendent thing going on, but we've got the fall conference coming up and we've got the spring conference next spring. Those two conferences would count. Um, let's see what uh board members attend an OSBA district community

192blah blah blah sponsored event focused on eliminating barriers to student success. Well, Dr. and I were talking about that just what is that and then we realized these meetings that we're attending right now about the property tax school funding all of that what could be a bigger barrier to our student success than the funding lack of funding that we don't have to serve our students that what they need you know so I would think that those would all those are all the mandatory things that you have to have and we're already doing them. We're already have these on our schedule to do and but once they're done, which we're going to do, you can't do them for the next cycle. So that's why I'm saying we're hitting a golden opportunity here to bring to our

193district something that very few boards can do. And I think it would be such a great way for to h another way to help our district shine. Um optional activities. Board members complete at least one annual OSBA book club offering. Denise um the board endorses the creation and implementation of a formal community engagement survey. It's something that Rachel does. So we participate in that. board members attend a state legislative conference. Again, busy with with um uh the superintendent search, but that's coming up again. I think they do one in the spring as well. Um and I don't think that my attendance at Washington DC would count for that because it's not state. I would have to ask on that. Board members attend the board leadership institute. I'm going to that. Is anybody else going to

194the to BLI the I think it's the first weekend of May, second weekend of May. It's in my calendar. I only know what I'm doing at the moment. I don't look ahead. So, that's a capital conference is coming up in the fall. A lot of us go to that or at least we should. And then your own service tra your own star awards, service training, aptitude. Um, any points that you do towards that, if you earn that, and I can show you where you can look that up, that garners it. See, there's there's the big bugger. Board members earn the master board member award 20 points. So, I cost you all 20 points because it it happened too soon. These are things that we're already going to do. And I thought, why not bring recognition

195to Parisburg and and had the state say, "Oh, there goes Parisburg again, getting more awards." Bless you, Guzen Heighten. So, I really would like you to consider that. Um, we don't need to discuss it again um or make a decision tonight unless you absolutely want to, but just pointing out because we've never really had a chance to talk about it. I know briefly discussed it. I haven't gone through it as much as what I just did. So, that's why I wanted to do that for you tonight. Um, there is an opportunity for us in far as community engagement if we wanted to get out as a group um to be out in our community. I don't know if you saw this in the paper, partners for clean streams. Uh, we missed one already, but on

196426 from 1 to 3, they're going down to Orleans Park. um and just just doing a cleanup. You know, it's it's Earth Month, so there, you know, a lot of these types of things happen. If anybody would want to go and do that, um it would be there's there's 31 spots that for that particular one. It by now it could be filled up. I don't know. But it didn't look like there one for um the 18th filled up completely. that was over by Kroger. Um, but if you guys wanted to do that, let me know and we can do that. Now, just because I know you guys were beat to death over the um number of board members that can be together at something, we could all do that. It's fine. We're not there discussing

197board business. We could be separated from one another. We would be at the same event, yes. But if we're separated from one another and we're not talking about board business, even if we're together, that is still not violating the sunshine laws. So, um, just thought I'd throw that out there because I thought that would be something for us to get out there. So, anything else? Casey, you look hot and ready to go. I just I just wanted to touch on two things. I I cannot come on Saturday because I have a bridal shower and football games. Um but I do think that's a great opportunity. Um and then I I just want to touch on the OSBA award because I think we keep bringing it up but never really going there and I know it's

1989:30. Um, but I I think for me where I'm standing on this is, and I don't think any of us joined the board for this reason, but I think that I my goal for joining the board was not necessarily to focus on myself becoming a distinguished board member, but instead supporting our staff in becoming a really distinguished school and supporting in that. And I know that this is not something that you're looking to do in a self agrandizing way. Um, but for me, I guess what I'm I'm feeling like we have a lot of work to do ahead of us. Um, and I I hear right there was some frustration in the community with the board. And so it feels like maybe it's not the right time to be going after an award for our

199board when we have two new members. Um, I guess for me, I my, you know, my dad always told me like, let the work you do speak for yourself. And I think that that's kind of where I'm at right now. Um, bless you. I just I want to I want to I want to do the work. I want to I want to get in there and I feel like I haven't done the work. I haven't I haven't earned an award yet. I don't think that I've earned an award. Um, and so for me, I want to focus on like I'm not sure that our students gain anything from this. I think it may bring notoriety to the school, which is important. But when I'm thinking about the work that I want to do on the

200board, I think that I want I'm trying really hard to maintain that student first mentality in every decision that we make. And so I I just want want to share with you kind of where I'm sitting because I I know that we're doing a lot of the things. And I think that's great, right? And I think that we should continue to try to do all those things and then in 5 years if we're we're crushing it, right? Everything's moving along slowly and perfectly and we're all happy, then we we >> president. >> No, absolutely not. Um then I think we we go for this, right? But I think right now we're in such a a time of flux that maybe we hold um we do all these things, they become our normal. It's just what

201we do. This is what the Parisburg board does. And so um we we kind of let the work we do right now speak for ourselves um and then move towards that as a future goal. >> I totally understand what you're saying and that's why I was hesitant because it does sound self-gratifying um by going after this. But please note that you made a comment that I and that's why I'm bringing this up again tonight. We do this work. We are doing this work. we finish this work but we can't go back in five years and earn this award um because we will have done the work already and that's why I gave the example of of the the master board member it's history you know I can't we can't do and it would be really

202really difficult for anybody else on the board right now to earn a master board member but that's an optional thing That's not in the I think that's what got me about this was because of the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven dots that are mandatory, we are already doing six of the seven. Six of the seven are on our honeydew list. And I thought, so it's I'm always a type of person who sees an opportunity and I want to I want to go for it. If we get it, we get it. If we don't, we don't. But um uh but I I definitely I definitely see your point as well. But know that if we do all this work, well, not if we do because we are going to end up doing those seven

203points because that's what we've just been talking about. But if we do these do these seven points, we're so close to earning this for our community. Um, and giving them something else to be to be proud about, I guess, when they haven't been very proud of their board of late. Um, of long late. But I guess I I think the the real award is having a school that runs functionally and I think absolutely >> doing all of this work shouldn't be for an award, but it should be to ensure that our students are receiving the very best educational outcomes that they can from us. And whether or not we can't go for this award in the future, I think the the meaningful part of it all is that we're doing all of these amazing things

204just because we find value in doing them. Um, and not we're not trying to, you know, cram them in because we we want this this distinguished honor. And I guess the other thing I would say is I don't know your history. You've been on a board for a long time, but having like been in the classroom and things, I knew no one on my board. And as a public like family member in communities, I didn't really know anyone on boards of education. And so for me, I'm not sure that hearing that my board is distinguished, it doesn't it doesn't mean anything to me as a community member. I think hearing that my schools are distinguished, hearing that my students are receiving these incredible opportunities, that means something to me. But hearing that my board is

205distinguished or earning this honor from OSBA when we're saying as a community that we're not happy with the board, it just feels like we're we're I don't know. there's like a disconnect there for me and I'm having a hard time understanding where receiving this award enders us to the community I guess. >> Sorry. >> No, you're fine. I can't see you. Um, and that's just I I I don't want to belabor this. Um, but I think we we keep coming back to it and I I've never kind of shared where I'm coming from on my side. I think >> that's the whole point of doing this tonight because we haven't had a chance to talk about it. >> Yes. And I I just I wanted to kind of share where I was coming from as

206a new board member. Um I just I I I yeah, I want to do the work to do the work. I want to do all these things. I don't necessarily want to focus on an award right now with where where we are in our cycle. I would I would agree with Casey and there's some things that we have on that list that are going to be a heavy lift and we might find that they take a little bit more time and I want to make sure that we do quality work and that we aren't rushing through anything to hit a deadline because I think like I said there's some things that are going to they're going to be a lot of work that we need to get done. >> Yeah, the strategic plan's going to

207be the going to be the big one. But we fortunately we have to do that one totally alone. I apologize for my phone is going crazy all of a sudden. Um, okay, Denise, you want to >> I don't have strong feelings either way what I just decided. >> There you go. There you go. >> Okay. Is there anything else for board discussion? Have we beat this horse to death at this point? All right. So, I think we've got what I'm hearing from board discussion is that we've laid out a lot of things that we want to get done. We know what we're doing with the policy thing. We're working on the evaluations courtesy of Casey and uh Randy and Katie will be getting us some dates so that we fall into the right legal schedule.

208Um working on getting um Mr. Schwarz Miller and Miss Albbright together for a work session. um assigning poor Hannah to get a schedule thing out for us. So, that will be good. That will help. Um a handbook is something that is an idea but not a a main priority. Um, and then getting a basic cost list of facilities, PI, capital projects fund with PI and it so that we see what expenses are coming down the pike. Okay. Did I miss anything? Okay. All right. So, I have no idea where we're at. Oh, okay. So, believe it or not, ladies and gentlemen, we are now at Thank you very much uh board for getting us to giving us the time to be able to discuss things. I knew that was going to take a long time.

209And Katie, we actually got through the consent agenda before 10:00. So, I'm looking at it that we're ahead of schedule. That's how we That's when we were when we were going over this the other day. she said. And now the consent agenda, which should be right right around 10 p.m. Um, so do I have, let me see, hold on, I'm looking for it. Um, I'm looking for a motion to approve to enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing the appointment promotion or compensation of specific employees or officials. Do I have a motion for that? >> So move. Laura >> second. >> Casey, do we take a roll call on that, don't we, Randy? >> Yes, ma'am. >> Okay, roll call. Mr. Drew. >> Miss Mankey. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood? >> Yes. >>

210Miss Phillips? >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. And Mr. English, there will be no business afterwards, so we can >> Yep, you can scadaddle. >> I came regarding future. I'd like to suggest Thank you for your time. regular board graduation 19.