001Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for being here. We'd like to go ahead and start our meeting on March 24th, 2026. >> Microphone. >> Okay. I just got scolded by our u our guy behind the window. Thanks. Well, I'm so sorry. I looked and saw the six o'clock and then still forgot the microphone. Let me try that again. Good evening everybody. It was nice to see you all here. Um we'd like to go ahead and start the meeting. Mr. Drewer, could you do roll call please? >> Miss Haywood >> here. >> Miss Roland Miller >> here. >> Miss Phillips >> here. >> Miss Mankey >> here. >> Miss Lmer >> here. If you could all stand for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
002and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Well, with that comical uh entry, let's uh continue on. Um, Parisburg Schools welcomes you to the Commodore Building and we thank you for attending tonight's board of education meeting. We care about the safety of our students, staff, and families and especially our guests too, all of you here. Please note that there are exits on both the east and west sides of the cafeteria. Um, in case of an emergency, an AED is right outside the cafeteria doors. You are located at 140 East Indiana Avenue. Thank you for joining us tonight and uh for especially for supporting Parisburg schools and our students. Um let's move on. I need a motion to adopt the proposed agenda, please. >>
003So move. >> Okay. Miss Mankey >> second. >> And Miss Roland Miller, is there any discussion? Um, for anybody who looked at the agenda earlier, we did add a second executive session. It was there and then it went away. We're not exactly sure what happened to it. Um, but there is one right after our presentations. There is also one at the end of the meeting and there will be no action after that. We'll just go ahead and adjourn once we're done. So, those are the only two Dr. Anstead is the right. Okay. Those are the only two adjustments. So without further ado, roll call please. >> Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. >> Miss Phillips, >> yes. >> Miss Haywood, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. >> Dr. Anstat. >>
004Good evening everyone. It's so great to be here and see such a full house with so many amazing students under roof here. We're going to start out this evening. Uh Mr. Buer, you're here somewhere, I'll bet. Yes, there he is. Mr. Buer is going to come up and introduce our Parisburg Junior High School math count state qualifier and their leader. All right. Good evening. I'm Scott Buen, the principal of the junior high. So, just take a moment to thank the board and Dr. Anset for getting us the opportunity to recognize some of great ambassadors at the junior high. Um, so I like to bring Mr. Kyle Zwire up here first. Kyle, why don't you come on up here? So, Kyle is a one of our eighth grade math teachers. eighth grade math does algebra 1
005honors for us, but he also is our math counts advisor. And so I think it's a moment to to recognize Kyle here. Um if if you would walk into Kyle's classroom, you'd find a lot of different characteristics that I think you'd carry over into his ability to coach our our mathletes as well, too. So he's a has high expectations for our students. He holds them accountable. He makes sure they they have fun at the same time in the classroom. Um it's no surprise that you know Kyle is one of our most highest achieving uh teachers that we have in our district um in math. And so to see that translate over to his ability to mentor and coach kids in the math counts world is not a surprise to me. So not only are we
006very proud um of our students you with math counts and like I said they're great ambassadors but we're also very proud and and honored to have Kyle on our staff too and also to lead our our kids in in this area of uh of um you know competition. So, um, I got to share a moment with with Kyle and the Math Counts kids right before the state tournament. Kyle treated his his, uh, mathletes to a pizza party. I popped up there and I I don't know what I expected to see exactly when I was up there for a math counts pizza party. Um, but what I saw was a group of kids that were extremely loose, having a good time, having fun, laughing, smiling. I think some were bouncing back and forth between track, doing
007a lap, coming up, get a piece of pizza, coming back down, you know, type of thing. But you could tell that the kids authentically and and genuinely just enjoyed being around each other and enjoy the uh the atmosphere that Kyle has provided. So, we're very thankful. So, uh with that's enough of me. So, here's Mr. Kyle Zwire. He's going to introduce our kids and kind of talk about and brag on them a little bit with what they accomplished this year. >> Thank you. >> Again, thank you for being letting us being able to recognize our students this evening. Um, I'm going to have all of them come up right now. So, come on up. Yep. So, this group of students did a phenomenal job. So, they gave up their time after school like once a
008week um to practice these really challenging math problems. um you would be very impressed because during the actual rounds like they would show a problem up on the screen and before like I was done reading the first line like people are buzzing in to like give the answers and I'm like what just happened? Um so like a lot of them are better than what I can even do in the classroom because they are on top of it. They give up all their time to like study and do all these extra things. Um so we have Ding Xihong. So, if you can step forward when I say your name. Abby Canara. Um, David Lea was not able to be here this evening. Eric Leu, Jaden Kim, Jerry Mau, and Anvita Sista. Um, these individuals were able
009to make it um at the regional competition at UT to be the top six or our seventh person is not here tonight. um and go to the state competition in Columbus at the Ohio State University. Um there were 184 students who were able to go to the state competition. Um and again, it was incredible because there were 15 teams at the regional competition and our team got first place for the Toledo region. Um, out of these individuals, we had two who placed in the top 25% for the entire state, and that was Sherry and Dingz. And they only accept the top four for the national competition. So, that's a really hard feat. Um, I'm very impressed with them. Some of them are seventh graders, so we get to see what they can do again to
010improve and advance even further next year. So, congratulations to these individuals. And again, thank you for allowing us to acknowledge them. >> I I think next time they come, they should bring um one of their problems that they had to solve. And >> I thought about it if we could put it in the agenda next time and like have you >> say that what I won't won't be able to understand. >> Well, no, I could do algebra. >> I can do algebra. Geometry. Thank you, mathletes. All right, up next, I have the pleasure of introducing band director Ryan Williams and choir director Katie Kman. They are going to highlight our All-Star Band and Choir members. Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Ryan Williams. I am the director of bands at Parisburg High School. I'm
011here tonight with my colleague Katie Kman who is the choir director at the high school. Uh the students we are acknowledging um were selected for by the Ohio Music Education Association all state ensembles. Uh they prepare prepared rigorous auditions at the end of last year, the 2024-25 school year and this year performed with the all-state groups um in front of hundreds of band, choir, orchestra teachers, uh parents, other students at various levels, collegiate levels um all at uh the Ohio Music Education Association's professional development conference that happens um every January. uh with hundreds of students auditioning, it's a huge honor to be one of the few to participate and we are very proud of the students and their achievement. Um tonight I am uh going to recognize two band students. Um first, if I could
012bring up Jaden Carile. Um Jaden Carile participated in the All State uh band this year and he was the first chair Barry Saxs player. So he was uh selected as the top um high school baritone saxophone player for this school year. So, congratulations to you on that. And, uh, the other student was not able to make it tonight. He had track practice because all of our students, you know, are involved in 45,000 different things. Um, but, uh, it was Jaden Miad. Um, he was selected as the lead jazz trumpet player for the All-State Jazz Ensemble. And I would like to bring up, come on up here, Sienna Eggenburgger, who was um sang soprano in the OMA Allstate Choir. Give her a round of applause. Guys on the left, girls on the right. got split. So
013there were too many. >> Next up, we have Coach Jenna Perry, who will be introducing our PHS Game Day cheer division 1 National Placers, 13th in the nation. >> Good. Good evening. Um, first and foremost, thank you for having us. Um, I'm very proud to stand before you specifically to recognize the incredible accomplishments of our competitive cheer team this season. Through months of dedication, discipline, and teamwork, these athletes have presented our school with outstanding pride. This year, this team faced intense competition at every level, both locally and um nationally and continually pushed themselves forward to improve their skills, strength, and their unity as a whole. In order to even attend that nationals in Orlando, Florida, the team first had to earn a bid by qualifying at a regional event. Um, which most wouldn't know that
014in order to do that, that is their very first competition of the season. So, there is no chance prior to that to work out any kinks. Um, from that moment on, they set that tone for what would become an extraordinary year. They've shown true resiliency throughout the season by adapting to many routine changes while balancing countless early mornings, late practices, and an unwavering commitment to excellence. Their hard work ultimately led them to that national stage as UCA nationals, where they earned an impressive 13th place finish out of 44 teams and an achievement that reflects both their talent and their determination. None of this would have been possible without the support of our program sponsors, dedicated cheer families, and our incredible community. Their encouragement and commitment have played a vital role in this team's success. Beyond
015trophies and rankings, this team has demonstrated leadership, perseverance, and true sportsmanship. They have truly set a powerful example for our entire student body, showing what can be accomplished through dedication and teamwork. We're incredibly proud of these athletes and their coaches for their commitment for bringing such honor to our community. And at this time, I'm going to introduce all of them are here except for two. Um, so without further ado, I have Lauren Watson, Brooke Featherston, Georgia Van Dilan, Sophia Mullins, Aubrey Bosetter, Gabby Kelly, Tatum McCoy, Emily Garcia, Addie Thcker, McKenzie Hill, Marissa Kelly, and Lillian Wood. Thank you. Thank you. Congratulations. >> And our final recognition this weekend, Mr. or this weekend I you know what I'm looking forward to this week this tonight is Mr. Jeff Abkey is going to introduce our Ohio School
016Boards Association business honoral. >> Great. Yes. Well, thank you and congratulations to all the students and families that are here. Um, again, as a a Parisburg alumnist myself, it's always proud. I'm I'm very proud to see the work that you all are doing. So, thank you for keeping all that great spirit going. Um, and I'm here tonight to um, you know, it's fun when I get to be here because it means we're recognizing some great um, business partners and donors and folks that um, help the schools do great things for kids and for staff. Um, tonight we've got a couple of different uh, awards here. So, I'm going to ask the O Dear Diner folks uh to come on up here and our um after prom committee. Yep. You too, Rick. Um and we're going
017to um start with this is kind of again a two a two-parter. Um, so the Ohio School Board Association, um, every year recognize they have what's called the business honor role and they allow schools to nominate, uh, businesses in their community that are great partners and exe, um, to the schools and exemplify all what's what's great about our communities. So tonight, um the first one that we're going to recogn, we were honored to have some of our nominations chosen. I think um we have the only uh recipients in Lucas and Wood County um this year for 2025. So the first one is a little bit of a um lifetime achievement award here for uh uh Mr. Ruffner and and Dana um from O Dear Diner. Um and and those of you that don't know, um
018Rick and Dana, longtime owners of O Dear Diner, support the schools in so many ways. They're both graduates. I know you are and Dana is as well. Yeah. Um but um they have year overyear done so much for our schools um in particular um with the afterprom committee for several years. So, we're first we're going to recognize the Ruffner and OD Dear Diner with the OS um as joining the OSBA uh business honor roll for 2025. And thank you for all the years of support that they gave while they were owners of Odier Diner and will continue to do. Rick promised me that in the back um there before I came up. Um so, we'll start with that and then we'll get on to the passing of the torch, I guess, if you will. The
019ice cream cone. the passing of days. >> You know, I I greatly appreciate that and I know my wife does too. We are both graduates of Parisburg, but I I will say over the years, we've always had a softot for Parisburg schools. Um there's three people that over the years that have helped me out a ton with with my business and Tom Hustler was one of them. Uh Rachel Zooker, I know she's back there somewhere. Rachel's been a great help to me as well over the years. if I ever needed anything from these schools, I could go to to to Tom and Rachel at any time. And um issues are always resolved. I mean, um so I I just can't thank you enough for this. And um Kit Veler was another one, you know, because
020I always had to work with Kit on the yard outside, you know, she kind of handled all that. So Kit Veler was another one that was just amazing working with. So those three people and there's others too, but those three always stepped up to the plate whenever Dane and I had an issue and needed something accomplished. But thank you for this and and I do appreciate it. Over the years, we've had a a great report with Parisburg schools. So thank you very much. Well, and those of you who aren't familiar, and I don't know who wouldn't be, um that uh last year um the Ruffner sold the the business um to the Farley's who have done great job and thank you for keeping all the ice cream on um on on supply and um you
021know, they um again have have picked up that that proverbial ice cream cone with um the afterprom committee who we have Jenna Connley and Emily Keller who are the chairs of this year's afterprom and the the funds that are raised at the car show um throughout the summer have been um uh have traditionally been donated to the after prom and they are going to do that again this year. So, we have all the I don't know if you guys want to say something or you guys want to talk about after prom. You need you need volunteers. You need >> um so I I'm Janna Connley and I'm one of the co-chairs of this year's Afterprom with Emily Keller. And I don't know how familiar you are with Afterprom, but it's a parentled event that is
022um mostly supported through our community members and businesses. And OD Dear has historically been a huge support. Um, and their their support makes it possible for us to put on a memorable and fun and safe event for our Parisburg High School seniors. It gives them an awesome way to close out their career at Parisburg High School. So, we just really, really appreciate their support and it wouldn't be possible without them. So, thank you for your past support and for your continued future support. There you go. The >> the passion of the check. >> Do I do a >> photo? It's not a secret. >> Oh my gosh, you guys. $3,17. >> Wow. >> And I'm stuck. >> Ice cream injuries. >> Thank you. You guys photo over here. >> Our daughter is going this year,
023so our daughter. >> Well, that means you need to be on the committee. Yes, thank you to everybody. Um certainly for to the Farley's and Odin O dear and the Ruffners, but also to our afterp committee. Um that is um an amazing amazing work that they are doing and if you want to get involved, I'm sure they will take take help. So um so the second um recognition that I get to be part of tonight is again the Ohio Schoolboard Association business honoral for two uh for 2025. Um, one of the special categories with this group is what's called a special project. And we, um, again, we're lucky to have or fortunate to have, we were fortunate to have people that allowed us to make a nomination and then that it was selected by OSBA,
024uh, for a special project. Um, so get backing up a little bit, leading into winter break of 2425, so last school year, uh, Kelly Johnson, the principal at Fort Mags, reached out because, um, she wanted to do something to spruce up the staff lounge over at Fort Mags. And, um, I'm pretty sure it hadn't been touched since that building opened in the early '9s, and it definitely needed that. Uh but knowing it was needed that but that funds to do something like that um are challenged to come by. Uh we got the an army of folks together to to make it happen. It started with a a call to Rose to of RCI Interior Design um who donated her time and talent to design the project. She then reached out to some partners of hers
025at Pat Craft and Proource uh wholesale to and they donated the flooring. Thank you very much. Then we called our friends over at D Rocher Appliances. they stepped up with refrigerators and microwaves. And then we have a wonderful volunteer over at Fort Mags and in the community, Mike Deon with Lab Electric, um who offered up some of their services, but also uh funds to pull together the finishing touches along with the Fort Megs parent booster group. Um and then I think Kelly and her husband came in and did some painting um between the holidays. we were able to surprise the staff on that first day back after winter break um with um the finished the finished project product over here. So, all this to say, it was a great example of how the team of
026amazing businesses and individuals really did something that made a huge difference. Um Kelly um is not able to be here tonight, but I but we do have Emily Walcott who's a teacher over at Fort Megs. I just wanted to share a little bit firsthand of what um what a difference it has made. So >> yes, thank you. Um I'm here on behalf of Fortme staff and Kelly Johnson tonight. I just want to share that um I was a kindergarten student when the building opened in the early 90s and um I came back as a teacher in 2017 and you are correct. Nothing had changed in that time. So, um, Kelly one, I don't know, one morning had a had a fun idea and, um, reached out to Jeff and then got in touch with several
027folks who pulled off the surprise of our winter break. Um, we came back after two weeks away to a brand new lounge. Um, and it just means so much to us. Um, this is more than just a space where we eat lunch. This is a meeting space for our staff. Um, we have student clubs who meet there. We've had community presentations happen there. Um it really is just a gathering space for us. So we thank you. We appreciate the time and effort um that you guys have put forth to put together such a beautiful space for us. And yeah, I guess probably everyone come on up. >> Yeah. So we um Yeah. So on the in the forever known in the business honorable will be this this project. So if I call you up, please
028come on up and we'll you're going to you saw what everybody else was going to do. You're going to get your picture taken up there. Um, so we have Rose uh Toth who's the owner at RCI uh Design. Sorry, I got to make sure I get these in the right order here. Here you are. Thank you. We have Tina Rossi and Josh Revard um from Pat Craft. Sorry, I should have checked these out before. Here we go. >> Thank you. Um, we have Jake uh Harms who's the owner and Chris Ahern, who's the account manager at uh ProSource Wholesale. And you may recognize some of these names are definitely Parisburg folks too. So um and then uh Kevin Meyers who's the owner at uh D Rocher's Appliance and then Mike uh Deon who's the president
029at Lab Electric. So thank you again. Um again it was just it was a fun project to have pulled together and I know make made a big difference or is making a big difference. So thank you Thank you. >> Thank you. Well, this just this just means a whole lot to us. The district has been through a lot the past couple of years, haven't we? And to see our students excelling and to see the community support. and you get that phrase, it takes a village, but there's just something special about it when you see it right in front of your face like tonight. We thank you so very, very much for helping to make Parisburg schools the phenomenal place that it is and it's because of people like you. So, thank you very much. We're
030going to take a five minute break right now. You're going to see us immediately leave because we're just going to go right into Oh, no. to do that or I have to get a motion for um executive session. Do I have that please? >> So moved. >> Susan >> second. >> And Laura. Um roll call. Mr. Jurer. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Minkkey. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer. >> Yes. So you all may leave or you can stick around for the rest of the meeting that that'll come, but we are actually going to exit the room and go down to a conference room. Thank you so much. We'll be right back. I know. >> Come back to order, please. >> Let's see.
031Five minute break. Executive section. And we've got Dr. Anstead's report. Please come out. >> We have to come out of executive session. Time is 6:55. >> Yeah, y'all just got invited to an executive session. Wasn't that special? And Dr. Anstat. >> Alrighty. Good evening, everyone. This is my favorite part of the meeting other than when the students are here, but this is recognition of all the great things going on in the Parisburg schools. Our mission is ensuring that all students achieve their greatest potential and our vision 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. I'd like to start this evening with thanking the Parisburg Messenger Journal for gifting us this incredible ad in their best of
032Parisburg uh recent edition. So, this was a gift on their part to celebrate our amazing schools and we are just so appreciative of Chad and everyone there at the Messenger Journal for celebrating us. Our bus drivers recently attended a stop thebleleed training at the Parisburg Fire Division. So, we'd like to thank the city of Parisburg. First graders in Mrs. Pratt's classroom, enjoyed an engaging hands-on experience. They explored Braille with our incredible teacher, Mrs. Merik, who is a certified Braille instructor at transcriber. She's at Woodland Elementary, and she led a lesson on the story of Lewis Braille, which was just incredible. So the kids, you can see them kind of holding all their their braille names and their braille words there. It was really a great day of learning for them. Frank Elementary students have been
033getting very excited about reading through a new afterchool club called Bookbees. And this is led by Janelle King who's a reading specialist at Frank. So thanks to Mrs. King. These kindergarten students recently enjoyed a Fort Meg's historical then and now presentation. Thanks to the fort. Thanks to Toth Elementary School students, families, teachers, custodians, office staff, and parent volunteers for making the annual wax museum incredible. I will tell you, I could barely move. It was packed. You were kind of walking sideways. Um, don't tell the fire marshall. Students brought their learning to life through research, writing, speaking, and creativity, and they shined. They were so great. You stop, they could tell you all about their person. There were I mean there were a few Taylor Swifts, but there were also some very interesting choices in their
034in their wax museum characters. It was great fun. We had our sixth graders at the Redwing at H in the Redwing at HPI. They wrapped up their study of ancient Mesopotamia by playing the royal game of ore. I'm told that's how it's pronounced. This ancient game traveled trade routes far and wide, showing how ideas spread across cultures more than 2,000 years BC BCE. Parisburg Junior High students are exhibiting more than 60 pieces of student artwork at the Weey Library. They are incredible. I if the next time you're at Weey, I would definitely recommend through March 26. So, you've got to get there pretty quickly, but I would really recommend that you go downstairs to that gallery. The artwork is beyond just beyond belief. It's so beautiful. Our PJH String Ensemble delivered an outstanding performance at
035the Central Ohio String Festival. The group earned straight one ratings. Those are superior ratings from all three judges. A super impressive accomplishment. How about that dog? Doesn't he look like you could just pet him, >> right? Six talented students from Parisburg High School have their artwork on display at the Robert C. and Susan Savage Community Gallery at the Toledo Museum of Art for the Congressional Art Show. This is a real honor. It's a wonderful presentation. The competition is really fierce. Uh I go every year and I love seeing the artwork that our students have on display. This this is an incredible accomplishment. 59 students competed in DECA state finals. We'll be hearing more about DECA in I think in April. Yes, May. April or April. May is one of those. We'll be hearing more about
036those DECA students. This was a great day. Uh Perryburg schools Foundation welcomed Holocaust survivor Helen Marx to Parisburg Junior High School for a powerful day of learning and reflection. She spoke to our students during the day and then a packed house that evening just with an incredibly powerful story. We're so grateful for honestly so many people that are involved every year. um our eighth grade English teachers and also the Jewish federation. PHS 2026 OMA state large group orchestra results chamber strings class C superior. You'll start to see a pattern here. Class C strings, class strings, CL, class C, superior concert orchestra, class B, superior symphony orchestra, class B, superior symphony strings, class A, superior, select strings, class double A, superior. Congratulations to our Perryburg orchestra. We know they're superior, but the rest of the state
037as well got to see that in the large group orchestra competition. Our PHS mock trial finished third in the state, which is quite an accomplishment. We're grateful for the community volunteers that pour their time into our mock trial students. And this is the Holy Celebration, which is a festival of colors. It will be on Wednesday, April 8th from 3:45 to 5:30 at the high school. There'll be free entry, tie-dye, food, and uh the it's going to be in the grass behind the science wing. and all the details are there and we'll certainly be sending those details out as well. PHS theater is about to perform Big Fish. Performances will take place at the high school on April 23rd through the 26th. Tickets are $10 each and are Oops, I'm sorry. Tickets are $10 on for
038student night and are 15 and they go on for the general public and they go on sale April 3rd. So next week pay attention, be ready because those tickets go fast. All seats are reserved. So we are done with our recognitions and our presentations for this evening. >> Hey, thank you so much for that. It's just another indication as to how incredible our students and their talents are here. just amazing. Um, we are now open for public comment um for agenda items only. Do we have any is is that No, >> unless you want to move up. You could move up public comment. You could do >> you know why why don't we do that? Um because it seems silly not to. So I'm I'm gonna allow this public comment for anybody. I've got Autumn
039Adams down. Yeah. And if you would come to the microphone, please. Autumn. >> Miss Lur, would you read the public comment? Um, >> do you see the Do you see the copy in there? >> Okay. Oh, there you go. Please preface your comments with your name, address, and group affiliation if appropriate. When circumstances create time constraints, comments may be limited to three minutes as stipulated by board bylaws 0169.1. There will be an additional opportunity for public input, but we're not doing that this time. So, this is where we're doing it all right now. Um, is is that all that I needed to read or do I need to read everything on there? >> I think you I think you covered the gist of it. >> Okay. All right. We'll go we'll go with that. >>
040I'll wait till after you introduce to start the timer. Okay. We'll give you time to get all that done. All right. >> Yeah. Yeah. There you go. Okay. Well, congratulations. You are first public comment of the year. So, nicely done. Thank you. >> Come on up, Adam. >> Uh my my name is Autumn Adams. I live at 333 Southwood. Um I have because I knew that time was going to be limited, so I printed out what I wanted to present if I may approach and hand one to everybody. Sure. >> Why don't you just bring them to me so that you can spend more time talking and then I'll be sure everybody gets a copy for you. >> What I'm here to present on is um I moved to Parisburg about three years ago from
041California and we have bike buses all over on the West Coast. These are um most school districts on the west coast, they are too small to offer bus transportation. So parents have to figure out a way to get their kids to school and bike busing has become a very popular way. If you want to Google bike bus, uh it started in the Netherlands. Uh Portland has a pretty big bike bus program. Essentially what happens is uh the kids can join in one of two ways. They can either wait at the end of their driveway for the bike bus to drive by. They hop on their bike with their helmet on. They are required to wear helmets and they ride the bike bus to school. Um or there are going to be two meeting spots. We
042are starting the bike bus for Frank Elementary students on April 10th. Um there is going to be a meeting spot at Oakbend at 7:40. We'll do a morning meeting, remind the kids of some of the rules uh on the road, remind them of hand signals, um how to stop at the stop signs because we have to abide by all of the traffic rules. And then bysentennial park will be the second pickup spot. Um we uh we did work with officer Cole um to figure out a good path. He still has some concerns about our path, but I have faith. Um we have um we're going to cross west south boundary and rather than ride west south boundary to then go north on Malberry. So that way we avoid the morning bike or the the the
043morning drop off rush. We're gonna go up Malberry, Finley, Seventh, and then down Pine. So that way we just dump right into the Frank Elementary parking lot right before school starts. But we're going to cross Echel Junction and actually ride that little half circle that's in front of Frank. So that way all the bikers can merge into either a single or a double. And we're going to ride the um sidewalk to Malberry. So that way we're not actually going to be on Echo Junction. There is a stop. There's a stoplight right there from Margaret Place where we can cross into Frank Elementary. We're going to do the bike bus every Friday starting April 10th until the end of the school year. Uh a decision hasn't been made yet. We want to work with Miss Bryant
044as to whether or not bike bus will run on the last day of school, May 21st, because we don't want too many bikes to be there if the plan is to be outside and maybe they're going to take up too much room because it's my hope we get more kids involved in this. We want as many parents involved as possible. The goal is to kind of box the kids in as we are riding on the streets. Um so and eventually when we can get some more volunteers, we want to have volunteers standing on like EK Junction to um be at the crosswalk when we cross over to Edgewood. Um just somebody there with a little flag. We plan on having signs on Echo Junction both directions to to tell drivers that there are bikers on
045the road from about 750 to about 8:05 8:08. We will be riding um through the neighborhoods south of Eckle Junction and then we'll get back on Echel Junction to go through Eastwood, Southwood, Birch Crest. Um then go back onto Eckle Junction to go into the Meadow Creek neighborhood, ride through there, eventually go through Birch, uh uh the bicesentennial park. On page 16 of the packets I have presented is a proposed map. Um so we hope to get the word out for the bike bus, the first bike bus in Northwest Ohio. So thank you for your time. >> Thank you. I appreciate your efforts in this and I'll be sure that every member gets a copy of this. um before we leave. Okay. And if I forget, y'all have now heard me, so you can let
046me know. Thank you very much. And I'm impressed. You know the streets better than I do. Okay. Um All right. So now what y'all are here to hear hear about is our superintendent contract. And actually, so that I didn't make a mess of it, I wanted to put this in writing. So I apologize to those of you here. Um, I am going to be reading this to a large extent, but on behalf of the Perryburg school boards of education, I am pleased to share that following a thorough and thoughtful search process, the board has selected Michael J. Aim as the next superintendent of Parisburg schools. This decision reflects months of intentional work beginning all the way last October guided by strong community involvement at every stage. To provide a clear picture of how we arrived
047at this point, I would like to briefly walk through the process. First, we partnered with a professional search firm to guide the superintendent search. Then we conducted a board discovery process to identify priorities and leadership qualities that we wanted. We held 13 community focus groups representing a wide range of stakeholders including open public sessions. We established an application deadline and worked with the search firm to screen the candidates. The board of education reviewed all applicants and selected six of them to move forward. We conducted extensive re reference checks on all six candidates. We completed first round interviews with all six candidates. We then advanced two finalists. Now, one candidate did later withdraw, followed by additional interviews with six, excuse me, six stakeholder groups, including district leadership and a 50 member community panel. Then we reconvened
048as a board to interview again using community feedback to guide that particular interview session. We deliberated and we are now recommending a contract to Michael J. Aim. Through each step, the voice of our community played a very critical role in shaping this decision. And through this process, Mike consistently stood out. He currently serves as director of business and personnel for Solen City Schools where he is part of the executive leadership team supporting approximately 4,500 students and nearly 800 employees. In this role, he provides leadership across human resources, operations, facilities, and strategic planning, working closely with the superintendent and the board of education to advance school district priorities. Prior to this role, Mike served as both an elementary and middle school principal in Solen, where his leadership contributed to consistently high levels of student achievement, including
049national blue ribbon recognition. His career also includes experience as an assistant principal, curriculum technology resource teacher, and classroom teacher, providing a strong foundation in both instructional and organizational leadership. He holds a bachelor of arts in elementary education from John Carroll University and a master of education and special education from Kent State University. He also has completed doctoral level coursework in K12 educational leadership and holds an Ohio superintendent license. In addition to his school district leadership experience, Mike brings valuable experience in governance and community leadership through his service as an elected member of the Aurora City Schools Board of Education and also as clerk of council for the village of Newton Falls. These roles have provided him with a strong foundation in public engagement, policy development, and collaborative leadership. At this time, I'd like to offer
050some time for uh the board members to express why they support our our decision or what what brought them to their decision. Denise, you're going to start. >> Yeah. Um so, I've been thinking since our discussion last week about how much I as a Parisburg parent appreciated Mr. AOM's consistence, examples, and testament to the fact that he is first and foremost student focused. His past accomplishments and his vision for Parisburg school's future demonstrated his student centric approach and his commitment to putting children first. It is comforting to me that I am confident that our superintendent will be focused on and prioritizing what matters most, our students well-being. >> Very good. You see, >> hello. Um, I just want to say that I am thrilled. I'm so excited to be supporting Mike's contract this evening. Um,
051I think that while many of us notice that he may be new to the actual title of superintendent, his administrative experiences across so many different contexts, I think and his expertise in and dedication to strategic planning um, and his absolute passion for school funding is exactly what we need right now. Um, and so I think that these specific skills, um, they are the foundation of what we do here. and because he is so passionate about both of them, I have no doubt that he will have an incredibly successful career here and I'm just I'm so excited to work alongside him. >> Um I wanted to hit on a couple things on on what I noticed with the interviews with Mike. Um, first of all, I know there's been a lot of comment from the public,
052but you have to remember that we as a board have sat through two other interviews with him. So, we had the opportunity to ask a lot more in-depth questions um than than what they were able to see the other night. So, as the person who was in charge of doing his references, I had some great com I had a great conversation with his superintendent. And the thing that stood out to me, aside from looking at his resume, is the superintendent told me, "I'm I'm grooming him for for our school. Please don't take him." And that that means a lot when you're talking to somebody who has a school that performs as well as yours, if not better sometimes. So, um, knowing that he was grooming Mike for the for his position meant a lot to
053me. Um, also I had a conversation with um, a fellow board member of his. Um, very great very good conversation. Um, I asked for a lot of questions because I wanted to know what he was like as a board member because to me that tells them tells me what he's looking at and what he um, will do as a superintendent. He had plenty of um experience with levies, bond issues, um experience with evaluating the superintendent. Um, having gone through superintendent hiring and and interviews before, I probably of everybody on the board take a little bit more of an unconventional um twist to it in terms of you have the the um his application and his resume, but what isn't on here? here and I I go digging in the community a little bit more and
054I I will go um and find other people in the community who weren't necessarily on the reference sheet to see what they have to say, the good, the bad, and and the ugly because you want to know what kind of candidate you're getting. Um, and I'm happy also as somebody who sits on both our operations committee and finance committee, he has the finance, operations, and HR experience that we are really going to need, especially in light of some of our administration who are at the retirement point um that we're going to need, especially in the next 5 10 years. So, um, and right now finding candidates with the depth of experience he has, um, and the various experience and again, as somebody who's gone through hiring superintendent, um, what I saw 10 years ago, the
055pool, it's not like that right now. There was a wider deeper pool back then, more experience. that's not happening now. The rate of retirement with experienced superintendent has gone up. So, um I'm I'm definitely pleased with what we were able to achieve. >> Susan, >> I I think I just kind of listening to all of our conversations ever since Thursday night, you know, we we did so much on Thursday and I woke up Friday and I was like, "Huh? So, what did we just do?" And I went back through my notes. I in order to remember things, I tend to write a lot and I had kind of a step by step uh every single comment made in those stakeholder interviews and then a lot of notes from our interviews too that I went back
056I started back and we've commented on this the five areas that we were really focused on in our initial interview. We were concerned about strategic planning. We were concerned about finances. We were concerned about working with staff to be innovative. Um, we were we were concerned about community engagement and we were concerned about board and how we would be able to partner well. and going back through and I'm going to say that I know we've talked about the stakeholder comments that the stakeholder comments are what proved to me beyond a shadow of the doubt that Mike was the right person because they talked about him being someone who was genuine and someone that felt approachable. Um, we had the community member that talked about seeing him as a CEO and the strategic planning and the
057finance and uh, and I do think we all went into that last interview uh, very much willing to not hire him. We went in saying um, we we need the best person. We need the right person and if if we only have one right now, but if he's not the right person, we won't hire him. And after the questions that were generated really from our what the community had done, uh I have no sh beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's the right person that he meets our needs right now. Um I'm really excited that he is is willing to come here. I've been watching a lot of basketball maybe like the rest of you over the last few days. And unlike in the old days where we see the same uh commercials over
058and over again, the one that every time I saw it, it made me think of Mike was the uh the a FUD uh Geico commercial where she's in working out and the guy's complaining that there's a lot of people in the workout room and is surrounded by a team. And at first I thought he's the team. Like we don't need him to do everything. We don't want him to do everything. we need him to be able to delegate out to our amazing administrators and our teachers. And then I realized though, and I'm just going to circle back to what Denise said, um it's the student. It's a is our students and there's this incredible team and he is he's going to be able to lead that team and he's going to be able to join
059that team and I'm really excited um for what they're going to be able to do for every single student sitting on that bench um working out that day. So, um, every time you can see that Geico commercials because we're going to see it another hundred times during this the basketball, um, I'm really excited. I'm grateful, uh, for his willingness to come here. >> Thank you for that. I I have to admit it would have been interesting if we could have collected a penny or two for every time he said the word student and talked about students in all of his conversations with us. It definitely was a big focus. Um, Dr. An at this particular point, is this where we vote to accept the contract as it's as it's presented >> to approve? >> Okay.
060Okay. Um, so I need a motion along that line and a second, please. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Uh, Dr. Mr. Durer, roll call, please. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. >> Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Miss Haywood, >> yes. >> Miss Phillips, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. All right, Mike, wherever you are, congratulations. Um, all right. So, now we go down into superintendent committee reports. >> I just want to do a little yay. Yeah, >> I'm I'm sorry that he's not able to be here tonight, but because we would be clapping. >> It is. It is. And I And I was I was going to continue on with that and then I forgot. I would get I just got so excited about doing that. While Mike is not with us
061this evening, he is excited to begin connecting with Parisburg school community and he will soon begin a listening tour to meet with staff, students, families, and community members. We are confident, as our vote just showed, that he is the right leader for Parisburg schools and we're very excited about the future that lies ahead with Superintendent Mike J. Aim. Um, so um, com superintendent committee reports, operations did not meet, personnel did not meet. We got on to um pupil services >> Did not meet this month either. Development >> uh development didn't but uh Parisburg Schools Foundation certainly did. They meet every month. Uh they approved several grants uh a classroom audio system for Woodland School. um an amazing program I hadn't heard before, uh where the uh college and career readiness class will go to the
062mud hens, but not to see the mud hens, but to learn about the video production, the graphic design, all the things that go in behind the scenes. >> Oh, wouldn't that be cool? >> I'm like, can I tag along for that? So, >> yes, absolutely. So there was a grant to uh you know get the students there and the cost of that day >> do they need chaperones? >> Yeah we'll volunteer. Uh so there's uh other certainly other grants that they approved a story fourth graders are going to be published authors. Um I also wanted to highlight we mentioned the artwork at way library. uh one of our and I'm going to mess I'm not going to guess which class it was, but if you go on the first floor by the children's library area,
063there is a story quilt of stories attached and so go see the art and go upstairs also and see that there was I had notes on that but I can't find them. the the scholarship banquet uh has been set. So word is invited to that and I think we've gotten information about that but I'm not sure. So that was Parisburg schools foundation. I also wanted to report on the business advisory council. Uh they had their uh meeting on the 19th. Uh we kind of talked about the career days. HPIs was cancelled unfortunately. of the junior highs was affected by the weather but still able to go on and so we're always grateful for all of the community members that make those possible. Um the high school is going to be having a job and internship
064fair with 20 employers uh coming up. Um people that actually can be you know interviewed while they're there for things. Um, we talked a little bit about how the college and career readiness course and the finance course will be overlapping and become a required class and maybe that's going to come up in pupil services. I will not step on that then. Um, and we're just continue this the things that uh Christine Albbright is doing. She's going to be helping the students reached out to her. they want to do more on student leadership and so she's going to be working with them kind of on workshops on developing their leadership skills. Um they're also looking at manager apprenticeship program. There's all kinds of things going on. So thankful for all the business uh community members who
065are part of that council and for Miss Albbright and all the other folks especially at the high school who are making that happen. >> Okay. Thank you. Any questions? I just want to say I am the parent of a fourth grader who is going to become a published author and he talks about it non-stop. So he is so excited to get that book in his hands. He's read me the story like 10 times. Um and so I just like what an incredible opportunity for our kids to see their name in print and their stories and their work in print. Um and so I will make sure I bring a copy to share with everyone once once we get ours. >> That'll be good. And yes, Randy, you can boast about your daughter's book, too. I
066seems like a a a logical segue there. Um, okay. Do we We're all set with reports then. Am we missing one, Casey? >> Student achievement. I don't have it in my list, but >> Oh, that's further down. Yeah. >> Yeah. That'll be under board committees. And >> I'm excited. >> Oh, all right. Okay. So, we'll hold on to that. That takes us into our treasures report. >> I don't know how come >> how come it feels like uh you know, we hit the peak and then we kind of slide into my report. you know, between the recognitions and hiring a new superintendent, uh, the fireworks, >> the fireworks have gone off and the embers are now dying and it's my turn. >> Turn it up. Come on. >> Uh, it's okay. All right. Well, March
067financial report. Um, year's rolling along, right? So, let's just uh kind of hit the basics here. This was our cash balance statement at the end of February. And then you see the jump at the end I mean end of January see the jump end of February when we got a tax advance and it just happens to be we got the rest of our tax settlement today. So um that's good. Always like it better when the money is in our bank and not in the counties. >> Yeah. >> Again you can see where Oops, wrong click direction. There we go. So there we were end of January and then boom, we get our tax settlement and then we are at a nice cash balance and again recognize now between now and June obviously we've got a
068tax settlement here this week but then it's it's you know downhill if you will until until July when we get our next next tax settlements on the financial report we're 155 true cash pays. And last year at this time, we were 156. And if you go, well, man, we have a couple million dollars less, but we also have about half the amount of incumbrances we had last year at this time. Cumbrances are purchase orders waiting to be paid. So, so sometimes that's a function of timing on purchase orders and and things like that. But we're sitting, you know, 155 true cash days. I wish we could be there all the time, but I'm happy with that. Right now our revenue is running um about 7.8% below last year at this time. Now some of that
069is timing on taxes um and probably obviously the revenue is very important but you know the efforts we put into a year ago on the reduction of expenditures it is really showing up. People doubt that sometimes, but we saw a portion of it last year when um we didn't fill positions and so we saw some of that savings last year and this year we're really sa say seeing it and I just want to remind the board now this column is our forecast which is also our budget. So you know one of the things now I it was my always my practice but it's not always not all treasurers do it this way because it was not required. my forecast and budget matched in the current year. I just the way I like to operate by
070law they need to now. So just so you know. So So when I use for the current year, when I say forecast, I could also say budget. And just again, we already talked about this, you know, real estate taxes. We got the rest of um our settlement today and I think if I remember right, we ended up slightly ahead of expectations on collections. So, and then again I want to highlight salaries and benefits. 84% of our costs are in our staff and uh and so even though the percentage is not huge, they're important. And this continues to emphasize, you know, our continue to look at um our spending in this area and being, you know, strategic about positions. you know, even look into next year as we fill positions. We're looking at we don't look
071at it from a standpoint of cost savings for positions, but we do have that kind in the back of our mind, right? The kids are first. We're going to hire qualified teachers and then we go where we ended up other, you know, on a salary schedule and stuff with them. But just know that we have our eye on it. But and and then the option, you know, the whole idea of I won't say I want to be careful. I'll say no new positions um because you know there could be times where we trade a position right so the headcount doesn't really change but we may want to shuffle things around but right now we're not add anything new other than we've talked about potentially needing to move a position from a grant fund to general
072fund next year and we're looking at a part-time occupational therapist because of case load but right now we're tracking well um and one of the things you look at by the way is percent of total. We're 66.7% through the year. So, if our spending is below that percentage, that's, you know, obviously a good indicator we're on track. Now, supplies tend to run lower, we will we'll see a big jump in supply purchases as they we like the buildings to get all their supplies purchased for next year before they leave for the summer. So, that's kind of an imbalance there. A couple other things real quick. Um, one thing I'm keeping an eye on, I talked about we did the forecast, we got simulations for the state on uh, state funding. It looks like it's going
073to be a little bit lower than expected next year. Mainly the enrollment growth may go away for us. It's about $350,000, but it it's not but it has a significant issue on, you know, four years out that compounding of it. So, it's something we're going to keep an eye on as I get updates. We don't know, right? because we got to we're going to have in a year from now we're going to be fighting for a new bianium budget new you know new governor and all that kind of thing but I don't see us impacting the next two years significantly but three and four right so we all know that the last thing I want to spend a couple minutes on the financial reports again kind of remind the board I you know I provide
074this report every month and I know not everyone is into these numbers but I want to make sure that when you look at you have some idea why they're there and what you're looking at. So I want to so January I went through the first two reports the cash reconciliation to cash summary and then and I kind of have these in kind of in order of importance. So the next two I want to talk about is um I behind summary of expenditures by fund and then and nows and what is interesting I was talking to a treasurer today he's new to his district and found out they were not doing then and nows way and and they've been essentially there's been findings by the auditors over the years and this is kind of like fundamental
075stuff. So, all right. So, one of the reports in your package is a summary of expenditures by fund. We have eight pages of funds, right? So, I'm not putting all the up eight pages for you, but what this tells you the the first column which is fiscal year-to- date expendable. That's the appropriation. When you approve appropriation measure, that's the number you're approving. We approve it by fund. So the general fund which is we forecast you have approved appropriated $77.76 million. We can't spend any more than that without a new appropriation. The second column is what's been expended year-to- date. So if you look at our general fund you appropriated almost you know 77.8 million. We spent 48.6. So our spending right now is 62 and a half percent of what's been appropriated. So again, as
076a rough measure, knowing that we're twothirds through the year, we're tracking overall really well. And some funds you're going to see 100% or less. You know, most of, you know, we're not concerned about it as long as we're we don't spend more than what you what's been appropriated. And then incumbrances. This is purchase orders that are sitting out there um in anticipation in some cases of expenditures, you know. So they in some cases, you know, like we have um some purchase services like um our director of gifted services is a purchase service. So we have a purchase order for Dr. Billings and then we get build against that purchase order right. So we might put that for the whole year, but we pay it as a year goes on. Electric, same thing. Gas, fuel for
077the buses, all those things have big purchase orders and then we we can pay against them as the year goes on. And the last one obviously we're talking about percent expended and so in most cases we are in good shape. In some cases we expect to be more than that. Like if you I don't have like our um bond retirement you see is 86%. Well, that's because our bond principal payments in December. So, that's what we we pay that we'll have an interest payment in June which will cover the last 14%. And now I've gone to the that was the beginning of the report. I'm going to the last page. And so the last page is our total our remember our general fund budget is a little less than 78 million. Our total district budget
078is a little over 112 million. we look at all the funds. So that's our total appropriations and we have spent 65 million of that. So less than 50% not I mean more than 50% excuse me um this time the last column I want to show you if you remember on up at the top on incumbrance or general fund was like a little over three less than $4 million and you're see man we got $12 million of incumbrance total the bulk of that is in in our insurance fund we have a purchase order out there to pay our insurance claims through the year and that's like six or well now it's down to six or seven million right outside of general fund. That's our biggest our biggest fund. So that's what that report means. So if
079you look at it and and and all the reason it's eight pages because all the sports have their own accounts, all the student activity accounts, all those things are pro the board has to appropriate appropriate a student club cannot spend money without the board appropriating. even though they've raised the money, it's under it's under district control and you can't spend it. And we run into often with groups sometimes where they've raised the money but they didn't submit a budget so you can't appropriate it. Sorry, you can't spend it until it's been appropriated. >> Welcome to the government. >> It's not like your personal checking account. Any questions on that? Because that's why that report's important. you know, if you don't if you don't look at anything else, look at that top white on general fund
080and kind of look at the bottom on that. The last thing I want to talk about is then and nows. Then and nows is are essentially what is happen when we have an invoice that is dated prior to a purchase order. It creates what's called a then and now. In theory, that should not happen, right? Person should not buy anything until they have a purchase order. A purchase order implies they've submitted a requisition. It's been approved through their um workflow, which generally means their department head. It goes to James as the um purchasing agent and then to me. So what occasionally these things happen, things fall through the crack or sometimes an emergency. By statute, the board I can approve then and nows for any purchase for o under three $3,000 and less. Anything over
081$3,000 requires board approval. And what that really means is we are we attest the fact that the funds were available and properly budgeted. That's what the the then now attestment does. Now what we do in this district and it's been a practice and we can argue whether or not it's a good practice or not but we put all the thens in front of the board every month and because we very rarely have one that's large enough that requires board approval but we want you to have eyes on that um so you you can see what's going on. In many cases, athletics, for example, is is is one where it's a it's a problem. They'll they'll enter an event and forget to put the purchase order in. And you know, and we know the athletic department
082has the money budgeted, those kinds of things. Um, and sometimes, and most of the time, like I said, these are all small ones. Um, and we don't have the explanation here, but we require the requesttor if there's a vet now essentially write an email or a note to me. um begging for forgiveness. Um and if there's habitual problems, then we we threaten them with taking away their purchasing pro. You know, those kinds of things. It's it's it's only a issue in this district in terms of the the number. They're generally small and but we're we're it's it's one of those you're chipping away at, right? And we've had some instability with building secretaries and in the buildings are the keeper that's always righteous in purchase order country. So, um, just a heads up that's there.
083If there if there if if there's three bigger than $3,000, that should be raising a red flag. When it has happened, it's typically because it's an emergency. >> Is the 3,000 set by law or is that our policy? >> It's by law and and policy. You know, the board could set a policy that's less than that if they wanted to. Okay. So again the key here if you look at the PO date it is after the receipt or invoice date that's what creates and our system there's there's no way around it. Our system automatically generates a vetted now and then I get it goes into my workflow and then I have to attest that we have the money to do it. That's it. It's my report for tonight. Uh any questions, comments? >> No. Laura
084or Susan, you guys were at the >> I I think you you did skip over and I would encourage the board to look at slide 12. Um again, just finished a forecast and we know that >> Oh, yeah. >> We're short. We're short more than what we wanted in our forecast and now we're going to be short another $1.5 million in the next five years. So, >> yeah. Thank you. Thank you for keeping that straight, right? >> Yeah. I it's just another area of concern if the state's not going to update the base formula and actually give us more money. Um that's just a little bit more money we're going to lose. So >> yeah, and my point and I think Susan nailing the head, we it's it's more pressure from from the state by
085on this and um I just want the board to be aware. We're not changing the forecast at this time, but I I hope that you're never surprised by bad news. Maybe hopefully I can surprise you with good news, but bad news, I'll try to do my best never to surprise you um on that because it's no one wins in in those situations. Um but there's too many unknowns. There really is. We just don't know. You know, we still I think they're still trying to understand the the the House bills and how to make all that happen. It's it's it's it's a it's a bit crazy. So, um thank you Susan for reminding me of that. We also just just to highlight um it'll be coming up at the future talked about the severance fund and
086kind of an increased increasing number of of our wonderful educators who are eligible for retirement. So that'll be something we'll be talking about in the future. >> Especially administrators. So, um I wanted to hit on part of what Randy said in terms of um we we do keep it in the back of our mind about the proposed property tax elimination that could be coming up here in November. Um but we can't we can't sit there and overthink it too long because we don't know where it's going to go. Um, but I think I think as board members, we need to make sure that we educate the public on that, what exactly it means for the school, but we also need to educate the public on what it's going to mean to them. Because at the
087end of the day, aside from the schools, you've got your city and your county and your townships that are going to fall into this hardship. But the taxpayers need to know that if that goes away, 100% of any cost are going to go just on the taxpayers. You're not going to get the help anymore from businesses. And you know, depending on where you're at, that's probably setting anywhere, and tell me if I'm wrong, Randy, but probably sets anywhere in between 30 to 40% of the revenue that's collected. So, having that go onto the back of taxpayers at some point, that's a lot of money. And it's it's something that people need to think about. You know, do you do you appreciate your schools? Do you appreciate your police? Do you appreciate your EMT fire services?
088Um I I wish there was a solve all for everyone when it comes to property tax, but we we can't just pull the rug out without a plan going forward. And I I feel like the state is ready to pull the rug and maybe some of the taxpayers are ready to pull the rug, but >> to we can't move forward without a plan. >> Yeah. And and Exactly. And nice thing is there it's generating some other things. We've got locally a community advocacy group for school funding, not necessarily the property tax. They're going um Jeff Abkeyy's professional group. We're we're trying to set something up with his his group and their board members, a community night where I'll bring in maybe um Mr. Hustler and from school Ohio school board association and Katie Johnson from
089OASBO to present to them not as members of foundation boards but as community members who are engaged in the schools that we need you. you know, we don't necessarily asking the foundations to be lobbyists, but we need individual members in their community to lobby. And then, you know, and then the whole thing of property tax is, you know, understanding the impact of regressive versus progressive taxes. Sales tax people love. It's a but it's a regressive tax. Lower income you are, higher percentage of your income goes to taxes. And so and and all those conversations and and and the practical matter is if it went away, we would be we would I all I can say we'd have to shut down. I'd have to use all our money just to pay unemployment because people oh if
090you if you lay everyone off they're getting unemployment. Who pays for it? We do because we're self-insured, right? We're the state's not paying that. We pay that. Um the other thing I'll say is I think came out of the communication or community engagement group. Rachel and I are working on some pieces. Um we did a trial run on Friday a little brief um video I mean God help us but then turned that into a meme and some other other things of doing with it and we've got a ser I've got a series in mind starting with um we talked about the state and local partnership started the Northwest Territory and then the next step is to show and I was looking at today how funding for Parisburg itself has shifted to more and more emphasis
091on the local. So, we're going to talk about in tidbits a little bit about a school finance and so the what's going to help us with that is u I think I think um Rachel said like Casey had some thought things that I take for granted if you have questions let us know and if I you know I'll I'll work Rachel and I'll work to put it in English and um try to get that out there try to you know more you know it's I won't call it fun with Randy but certainly finance could be fun but >> and that's something maybe we can talk about on our next finance meeting too of different issues and topics and ways to get them out. I did want to share and um I still need to have
092another conversation about this, but on Wednesday, April 29th, there's a group of board members um that are working on pulling kind of a Northwest Ohio at Penta. Um it's a 6:30 to 8:30 at Penta entitled the future of property taxes. And so they are schools will just be one piece of that, but they are having um several panelists who will be able to speak from the state who are going to be able to come and speak about uh the implications of not having tax. Everything from mental health services to fire to uh emergency police, let alone schools. And so if you can, we're hoping to um get the word out about that. I'm about a day away from starting to work on this, but April 29th at Penta, the future of property taxes, kind of
093a community event >> for Lucas and Wood County. 6:30 to 8:30. >> 6:30. >> And I almost forgot. I'm sorry I'm going long tonight. There is a house bill, I can't remember what the number is that's out there proposed that would eliminate continuing levies. So every levy would have to have a time frame and even our levies that go back to pre-1976 would expire and we would have to go to the ballot on all of them. And just to put in perspective the November um ballot the the our levy, thank goodness, emergency levy, our share of that cost is $15,000. So people don't understand going on the ballot is not free. we we as a district we have to pay to be on the ballot and um now in general elections it's cheaper because there's
094we're they're spread the cost among other things but in special elections you don't want to be there because you're footing more of the cost so my point is that whole levy cycle got worse it's not just going on the ballot is there's a cost to going on the ballot and the last thing and and Susan mentioned the severance fund in attached to your board docs is a presentation we did finance on the severance fund if you look at that. Got questions? It's it's there. I didn't think it was necessary for tonight, but it's certainly something we're going to have to talk about down the road. It's the seance fund is doing exactly what it's expected to do. We just have people um who who've worked long and hard and decide they want to retire. >>
095Um I just want to go back the the future of property taxes. There is a Facebook page. If you would find that, like it, share it. Um, we want to try to get as many community members educated about this as possible. >> Okay. And then you see since that's what we're talking about tomorrow night at Weey Public Library starting at 5:30 it looks like. Is that what it is? Uh, yeah. 5:30 at Weey Public Library is the Parisburg for Fair School Funding. Um I think they adjusted the name, but that's what I still had down on my calendar. So that's tomorrow night um at at Way Library down in the conference room downstairs. Uh and that's open to the public as well. Um, this is an organization that's just getting getting started, but it it
096sounds very similar uh but more focused on our immediate location here and for Parisburg schools especially. Um, so we want to look at the severance section. Okay, just second. Now I got myself skewed here. Okay. Section 10. Okay. And even though it's not on here, don't we normally approve the financial reports? >> It's it's item 10.2. >> It's 10.2. >> I make a motion to approve the February 26 financial report as presented. >> I second. Okay. Roll call. Mr. Dur. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. >> And you guys kind of jumped the gun, but do you have anything else that you want to add to the finance committee minutes? No. Okay. It it just
097kind of all mushes together. That's that's quite all right. Um All right. 11.1. Um, there you go, Casey. Go for it. >> I've been waiting. Um, okay. So, we met at the beginning of March um for student achievement and um Denise and I got to sit down with Jason Voltz, the high school principal. Um, and as Susan was kind of alluding to, they talked about this course um called Finance Your Future where they are combining um so it's a hybrid of the financial courses and career readiness. Um, so it would be a m uh a no that's separate. They're also going to be mandating a financial literacy course for sophomores. It would be half a credit. Um, and then they are kind of looking at the college and career readiness and focusing on career design,
098interviewing, personal design, and networking, which is very exciting. Um, uh, they're following and kind of looking at this life design concepts program, which is a career design developed by professors at Stanford. it's implemented at BGSU. Um, and so they're hoping to kind of bring that in. Um, and it's this idea of focusing on fluidity in the journey and not necessarily the destination of where kids are going. So, it's the process of getting them ready to go where they want to go. >> Did you say did you say that this is that particular one is high school or are we starting that back in hopefully middle school or junior high? I don't know because this was a meeting with Mr. Vultz. So we just focused on high school. Um >> high school. Okay. >> Attaching those
099concepts to the personal finance. >> Okay. >> Also also there's also a lot of career work that's done at earlier than that. This is just a combination of courses to make honestly to make the courses more effective and more career ready. And I think what I wrote down and highlighted was that um there was a real focus on prepping kids for next steps and confidence in making good choices, not perfect choices. Um and I think that that's just incredibly valuable for our kids to start looking at, right? Um every choice is not going to be perfect and sometimes you just have to take that next right step and move yourself forward and good and better things can come after that. Um but no step is a perfect step. um they're looking at having intro to
100stats which is currently through um UT and it's being taught on campus and they're just kind of looking at all of these different um classes and courses that they're offering externally and looking at are there possibilities of bringing them on campus just what does that look like? So, I think they're kind of starting to investigate the rigor of some of those classes um compared to the classes we offer. Um since they are not taught by our teachers, it's a little more challenging to know the rigor of those classes. And so, um we kind of talked about what that would look like. Um looking at some different end of high school math classes that aren't necessarily the the trig or the calc, but are still rigorous, right? For those students like myself going into humanities, um
101I did not want to take trigger or calc my senior year. Um and so looking at what other options can we give students that are still high level math that will be meaningful and supportive for them. Um they are which is exciting bringing back some STEM classes that were gone because we couldn't fill positions. Um so we're looking at intro to engineering robotics one and two um a makerpreneurship um course where they'll be looking at problem solution and then taking that to the market uh which is really exciting. So um I was excited to hear that that was coming back. you know, they touched on you, we have such strong STEM labs and we just haven't been able to utilize them because we couldn't find people to fill the positions that we had open. And
102so, um, being able to utilize those will be excellent and exciting. Um, we talked a little bit more about the establishment of the jacket time, which we've kind of touched on briefly already, but it's that idea of the end of the day already loses so much steam because students are leaving, students are, you know, um, athletes leave early or whatever the case may be. um using 11th period to not um hold instructional time, but to hold this like jacket period is going to really open up the school to um a more cohesive schedule where kids are able to be pulled and found um for extra supports and things like that. Um and then Denise kind of presented the question, what can we as a board do to support you all? Um, and I think what
103we really took away from that is this idea of communication with families and trying to find what is the most effective and meaningful way to communicate, especially, you know, you get into high school and the parents are hands off, they're a little more hands-off, their kids are becoming adults. Um, and so how do we how do we grab those parents, right? And just make sure that we are getting that information out to them. Um, and what are famil family's communication preferences? And so really kind of looking at the community and asking what what do you want to see from communication from the high school. Um and I think that was pretty much it. I don't know if you have anything else. Um we did talk we went back to grading practices and kind of talked
104about next steps from some of the questions we had. Um, right now they're kind of working on department team discussions and what that will look like, having building principles meet with each department. Um, and kind of hammering out some of the questions staff had. Um, but other than that, I think that was kind of the overview of what we we went over. >> It was a full meeting. >> It was a lot. We didn't waste time. >> I'm glad to see what we're looking at with the high school in terms of courses. And I did notice that there's um a computer science course that they're looking at. Um, I will be doing some um some work in conjunction with my job at the Toledo Regional Chamber of Commerce and also with the um the US
105Chamber of Commerce in terms of talking with the College Board and um local people with AP Principles of Business and AP cyber security and Um, I am interested in in seeing what we would consider with that, especially with our population. I think we have a decent population um to support some of those. Um, and it's it's interesting too to see what they're what they're encompassing with it. So, and these are these are programs that are going to be rolling out here within the next year or two. >> And I have noted and I don't know if you have more information, but I have um they're taking a freshman science teacher and moving him into a different like tech position. Um, and some of the things I have listed are cyber security, coding, small aircraft class.
106Um, so I don't know if those are in the works or if they are um things that they're kind of brainstorming as to what are we going to do here um to bring our kids into this kind of next Yeah, nextgen. Okay, next one. Community engagement. Okay, so that's Casey and me as well. So, you can tell we were very focused on um communicating with the community this month in both of our meetings. Um but community engagement, we had a great session with um Jeff Abkkey and Rachel Zicker um really talking about what we as a board can do to help um get information out to the community and how we can do that. So, we talked about some coffee talks. We talked about um what Randy mentioned some uh school finance uh uh communications
107using social media as well as ourselves um to share uh information with the community and we talked about some of the successes like the um Holocaust survivor uh community event. >> I was super brief. Do you have anything to add? Did you happen to work on the board write up highlight schedule? >> Yes, we did talk about that and I have a schedule that will be coming out. So, we talked about just what it would look like and following the dock. >> Okay. >> Um because the other one isn't accessible. So, we'll just move forward with the way that it was and we'll use some of those more like flashier templates for some other information coming out. >> Okay. Do you have somebody who's doing it tonight or do you want >> Oh, you are.
108>> And then I'll schedule it out from there. >> Okay. Everybody asked for a volunteer and everybody took a step back and there was Casey. Okay. >> All right. Thank you. when you when you all said that you like talked about coffees or other are there other ways that you're thinking of us being out in the community on a regular basis again I'm I think we did a good job and I don't want people we've talked about this we talked about this during the interview process I don't want just people to think that we're available when we're asking for money so how are we out you know kind of coming up right now >> so so I have um some the notes from the meeting and we were looking at doing um right now getting
109in front of funding, right? Um which was something exciting that Mike talked about in his interview, not just being available to talk about funding when we need it. Um which Susan just said and really looking at like top 10 lists for what the public needs to know about school funding and specifically school funding in this area. And so brainstorming ideas of what those like main 10 things would be that people need to know and need to understand. Um, and so certainly if you have ideas there, you are welcome to email them to me. I'm compiling and I'll send it over to um, Rachel and then we're we'll kind of go from there on how that's going to look or what that's going to look like. Um, we also talked about some potential walk-in talks if
110the weather ever gets warm. Um, where we can, you know, set a day and community members can meet with us and we'll just kind of go on a walk and talk and get to hear from our constituents and the community. Um, we also were talking about looking at reimagining maybe what public comment looks like. Um, and allowing some space for the potential of written comment cards or video testimony for people who can't get here. Um, and we have not at all figured out what that would look like, but we're kind of starting to rethink how can we make a space for people to share if they're not able to come to this meeting, especially, you know, it's at younger kids bedtimes and things like that. So, how can we ensure that we're hearing from everyone?
111Um, so we talked about that. We talked about having QR codes posted. Um, so people can just take a snapshot of the QR code and it would take you to the form or whatever it is to fill out. So, it would be very, very simple and easy. Um, and then also just publicizing visits and getting to know the administrative staff um, so that our community can see all the amazing work that the administrative team does and the value that they bring to the community. Um, and so really highlighting what they're doing behind closed doors because they don't often see um the fruits of their labor. They see the students, but they don't necessarily see all the hard work that goes on behind closed doors. And so introducing the admin team and letting them kind of
112share a little bit about themselves so that people can start to get to know everyone who works toward making this district exactly what it is. >> Well, that was something that we did do for for quite a while. It it got a little out of control, but it was supposed to be like a five minute presentation of uh and we titled it who are you and what do you do? And I loved it. I I absolutely loved it. Um but whatever whatever you guys come up with is I think that's a real important thing. >> Yeah. And I think you Rachel and I talked about the um the videos that we did with the principles for like principal day, right? um getting to know the principles at other schools that you may not necessarily spend
113time with. Right? I know my kids principal, but I don't necessarily know others. Um and so I think just again getting their faces out there and helping them understand what each of these different administrative components do. Um that we certainly couldn't do it without all of them. And so I think that that just really it paints a picture of why our district is what it is and how great it is. Uh because we have a great team um supporting us and we have great teachers and we just want to get their faces out there and the hard work that they're doing and get it out there. >> I like it. I like it. Very good. Okay. The people who have the strength to do policy. I know you've been busy. Rachel's kept you guys busy.
114>> I think I think we have an agenda item for policy and that was really what we talked about at the meeting this month. >> All right. So we we have the um first reading to accept for first reading the policy changes. Uh I'll just highlight a couple. We did have a lot of questions and so there may be changes before April and if uh we certainly are open to hearing from folks. I I think the one that we have questioned as is one of the very first ones was um the change in the grade point average uh kind of statement about that about what grade point average would be required in order to be able to participate in athletics. And so we have a question out about that one. Um, there's also a change
115in the drug testing policy and we had a question about the change there and the outofse drug test if it's refused and so we're we'll be discussing that again. Um you'll see that the AI model policy is in there that we've been talking a lot about that and we we have a policy to start moving on and then there is um some kind of significant I don't want to say changes but uh kind of consolidation of the non-discrimination policy and just a reminder that there's language in there about that when you change the policy in the 1000s it changes the ones in the 3000s and the 400s and the five because of all the different categories. What we're just really looking at is the one knowing that it'll ripple into the other areas. Okay. >>
116So, we are going to be meeting in April um to dis again discuss some of these changes and um make some final recommendations on those policies. We've also talked about uh kind of starting a review of the bylaws which are the the zero policies 001 or I'm not sure what all the numbers are but they begin with a zero. So there a lot of those are not um required by law. So we haven't necessarily updated them for a while and so our plan is is to kind of start reviewing those. Um you know one of the policies is public comment and I think the challenge again of that is that um you know it's it's the board's meeting and we want to hear input on board discussion topics. But I you know we also get
117emails. I've gotten requests for meetings. I think we all meet with people. I so I I think it you know we have to think about our meeting and what we want to get done here and then what are those other opportunities we can create maybe outside of meeting times to really hear from the public about non non-aggenda items. Um so that's one that we'll be taking a look at. There is kind of a refresh on that one. But if you if you look at any zero policies and uh want to have some ideas about uh some amendments or changes, just let us know. >> Look at zero policies. Okay. Are there any questions about any of the reports? Oh. got myself all messed up. It jumped way ahead there to jump into the policy thing.
118Okay, so we did that. All right. Um I need a motion now to approve the consent agenda. >> Right. >> So moved. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Sorry. Go ahead. >> Okay. Second is Casey. Are there any adjustments, changes? All right, hearing none. Roll call. Mr. Drewer. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. Okay, that takes us down to discussion. Item 19. if there's uh are there is there anything out there for board discussion? >> I I think I'm going to bring up something. Um Okay. Just because it's it's >> talked a lot about at least across social media and I think the public maybe needs to know how dependent we are on this and how
119dependent our students are on it. Um there's a lot of talk right now about data centers and I don't know if the public realizes how much we are dependent on them. um whether it's our phone system, our um attendance system, our communication system, um with our parents and with the grades and with um students having licenses for using books online, for testing online. Um I I can go on and on with this. Um, our um, our servers probably are on the cloud, I would guess. I would have to talk to Brett about that, but I'm pretty sure that they're probably on the on the cloud. Um, we are highly dependent on data centers for where our where we store our data. Um and if we would not have access to data centers, we would be
120um definitely in a difficult situation and the state department of education would be in a difficult situation because we would not be able to do state testing um state reporting. So, um I I think we need to help educate the public in terms of what how we use it every day and what exactly we use because I I know it's a big fight out there, but this is something that is inevit inevitable and we need to learn as a public how to properly use it and get ready for it and make the changes that we are going to need for Um, I'd like to make a comment on that. Um, have being somebody who has worked in data centers, data centers have been around a long time. A lot of the data centers I've worked
121in data centers in the 90s. Um, I a lot of what's on the public comment now and people are against are the AI data centers which are much more energy um, and resource intensive. Um, so a lot of what you mentioned is, and I think it is important to educate people on the fact that a lot of what you mentioned is in the traditional data centers, which already exists. They're already out there. They've been out there for many, many years. Um, a lot of what you're reading online and a lot of what people are are protesting and pushing against are the AI AI data centers, which is the next generation. Um, but would not affect most of what you just mentioned. >> There you go. the technology background just finally showed itself. Okay. Um, is
122there Yeah, this those technology that's I'm I'm happy when my computer turns on correctly. So, that's that's about my extent. Um, anything else from the group? No. Boy, we are a quiet group tonight. I think we're just done in I think we're just tired. Um if I don't hear anything else from anybody, then I'd like a motion to move into executive session. >> Move to enter into executive session for the purpose of discussing the appointment, promotion, or compensation of specific employees or officials. >> A second. >> That's true. And it finally just showed up on my screen. There we go. Okay. Uh, so Denise motioned. Do I have a second? >> I motion. Denise second. >> Second. >> Okay, there you go. All right. >> I'm not ready to motion yet. >> Okay, Mr. Drew,
123roll call, please. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Minky? >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. Miss Lurmer. >> Yes. And uh for the audience, there will be no further discussion after we are done with our executive sessions. So >> For business. Yeah. Whatever. >> You're not going to talk to each other when you get done. >> Yeah. >> Thank you very much for coming tonight.