001Gentlemen, call this meeting to order, please. How many times did Dr. Anstet said, "Turn your mic on and then I didn't do it. I'm too busy signing papers." She beats. Um, let's see. Uh, roll call. Mr. Durer. >> Miss Haywood >> here. >> Miss Minky. Miss Phillips >> here. >> Miss Roland Miller >> here. >> Miss Lmer >> here. Ladies and gentlemen, if we stand and do the pledge of allegiance, please. 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. Uh, okay. Now, I printed this out so I wouldn't get myself confused and lost. We have a safety briefing. We have company tonight. Thank you for coming. The Parisburg School welcomes you to
002the Commodore Building. We thank you for attending tonight's board of education meeting. We care about the safety of our students, staff, families, and guests. Please note that there are exits on both uh exits on the east and west side of the cafeteria. And in case of emergency, an AED is located just outside the cafeteria doors. You are located at 140 East Indiana Avenue. And thank you for joining us tonight and supporting Parisburg schools. Do I have a motion to adopt the proposed agenda? >> So moved. >> Uh Miss Rowan Miller. >> Second. >> Miss Phillip. Miss Phillips. >> Roll call, please. >> Miss Rowan Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. Miss Haywood, Miss Lmer. >> Yes. >> And Dr. Anne Stat. >> Well, good evening everyone. It's good to be here. Come on
003up. Uh, this evening we are joined by Becky Coughfield from our business advisory council. This is an annual event for us and Becky, why don't you take it away? Okay. Um this is our joint statement uh which gets submitted to the state as well. So meetings of the business advisory council uh called the council were held on March 20th 2025, June 18th, 2025, September 18th, 2025, and January 15th of this year. Meeting agendas are developed in partnership with district leadership, including Dr. Katie Anstead inter interim superintendent Randy Drier treasurer Tom Hustler superintendent and Brooke Price assistant superintendent additional participants attend meeting as appropriate to provide valuable insight and feedback including Justin Folultz director of student services and well-being. Isn't he a principal now? Yes. And also principal of Parisburg High School. Uh Susan Rollins Miller
004board president and board members Chris Anderson, Casey Hayward, and Denise Phillips. The implementation of action items outlined in the business advisory council plan would not be possible without the d lead leadership and direct work of Christine Albbright, director of careers and community service. Now in her fourth year in this role for Perryburg schools, Miss Albbright is pivotal to the district efforts focused on student professional skill development, career education explor and exploration and relationship building with local businesses and community partners. Thank you Christine. Notable accomplishments aligned with the business advisory council plan. Career days for K through 12. Career exploration efforts reach students across all grade levels. At Parisburg High School, 775 freshman and sophomores participated in sessions led by 52 business professionals while 304 juniors completed job shadowing experiences to support post-secary planning. Career Days
005at Hall Prairie Intermediate and Parisburg Junior High School engaged approximately 1,700 students and more than 75 business partners while also improve providing leadership experience for the DECA students that ran those events. Mach interview days. There were 84 students participated in two mock interviews supported by 17 employer partners. These structured experiences strengthened professional communication skills and reinforced workplace expectations. career field affairs and field experiences. Students participated in nine career related field trips engaging 458 students across 11 programs in addition to regional career fairs and the inaugural junior achievement senior exy year experience which included 43 seniors and five scholarship recipients. These hands-on opportunities connected classroom learning to in demand career pathways. Guest classroom speakers. Guest speakers shared real world experiences to demonstrate how classroom learning connects to a variety of career fields. These opportunities help students
006build professional networks and increase awareness of career options. Internships and work-based learning systems. The district strengthened internship programming through the launch of its first internal internship and the development of a standardized work-based learning tracking system, a workforce readiness employer guide, and continued expansion of the Parisburg Career Network. These systems enhance coordination with business partners and ensure highquality student experiences. Student Internship Guide. A student internship guide was developed by Christine Albbright and Anelise Williams to support Parisburg High School students participating in internship experiences. Members of the business advisory council reviewed and provided feedback on the guide. Service learning and support platforms, excuse me, service learning and student support platforms. Through the A serve Ohio service learning grant, six projects engaged 130 and impacted approximately 3,750 community members. Jackets Giving Back involved 375 seniors serving at 25
007locations. To support long-term planning and documentation of experiences, the district implemented interview attract to track service hours and build digital service resumes and level all to support personalized college career and life planning. Together, these initiatives strengthen career readiness, reflection, and post-secary planning. The council perspective and ongoing commitment. The council continues to champion multiple pathways to in- demand high-paying careers, recognizing that success after graduation may include enrollment, enlistment, employment, or other employer-based training. Representing a cross-section of local industries, council members remain committed to expanding workplace readiness initiatives in meaningful and real world learning opportunities that strengthen student outcomes and support the region's workplace needs. At the same time, the council acknowledged a growing strain caused by state policies that redirect public tax dollars away from public schools to fund private and charter schools. These funding shifts
008reduce resources available to the very institutions that serve all students and anchor our communities. Public schools and the community are one and the same. When a school is underfunded, the entire community feels that impact. Strong public schools are essential to a strong local economy and the council remains firmly committed to advocating for Parisburg schools and protecting the shared investment that prepares our future workplace. It is signed from all the board of education members as well as the members of the business advisory council. On a personal note, I'd just like to add that my twin daughters graduated in May and their transition at Ohio State and Miami has been successful from both an academic standpoint as well as a uh social emotional standpoint, which is a credit of course to my husband and I, but also
009to the partners that we had in this community. We picked for them many, many years ago. So, we're very thankful for what the district did for them. >> Thank you. Thank you very much. There any questions from the board? >> No, I just I want to highlight one your work, Becky, and thank you. Um, and I just I'm really excited about the increase, Christine, also the increase in the internship and those job shadows, you know, the 304 juniors that did job shadows. That's a significant jump in what we've been able to kind of place out into the community. So, I just really want to thank you for the continued work and hopefully, like you said, we need the funding to continue to kind of expand these. We've had to we had to cut back on
010some things this year because of transportation funding and I know that we're trying to be some creative ways to do that. Um, but I just want to also put out there if anyone's listening to this and they have opportunities for job shadowing or internships to get in touch with Christine and um this, you know, how do we expand this even further? But thank you. Congratulations because it's significant numbers that have increased over the last year. >> You know, I think something that we need to recognize is that the business advisory council, the work they do, many districts outsources to ESC and just mail it in. And it's really outstanding under um M Roland Miller's leadership and Miss Kaufman's leadership that we really got a vibrant working be business advisory council that is meeting the intent
011of the law and not just going through the motions. I think something we should be really grateful for. It's this is not the usual path in most districts. >> Well, didn't we start our business council long before it was on the radar of the state government to to do? >> No, >> I think we were talking about we were we were early. Yes, we were early. >> We were ready for it. >> We were ready. Yes. It didn't come It didn't come as much of an adjustment because we'd had a lot of conversations about it before. >> So, could we get a picture with you and Mrs. Miller, Christine, it'd be great if you came up here. And Elise was coming. >> This is just Thank you, >> Mr. Abkey. >> Do you want to
012do this picture to our special guests from York Auto up here to join me? Um, good evening board and and special guests. Um, it's always fun when I get to be here because it usually means we're celebrating a gift or a great partnership or um, somebody that's making a a great investment in our community. And and tonight certainly is no um, different. Um, tonight we're here to recognize or to thank and recognize the York Automotive Group, York Chevrolet, and of course the Yark family uh for being selected as an Ohio School Board Association business honoral member for 2025. Um, it was our our honor to nominate them for this award and um excited that uh that it was accepted. So, this statewide recognition honors businesses that demonstrate exceptional commitment to public education. We've been very
013fortunate to have partners like the Yarks in our community. Yark's investment in our students, particularly through their support of the Rocks program and our facility dog program reflects their deep belief in supporting the whole child and helps us to ensure that all students achieve their greatest potential. their partnership now uh their partnership helps empower young women through the rocks program which is our ruling our experiences as well as provides emotional support and connection across the the um our district through our facility dog program which many are very familiar with. Um these programs make a meaningful difference in the lives of our students and our staff and our environment every day. So, we're grateful to everybody involved at York um for your leadership, your generosity, and your continued investment in our schools and the community. Um
014like I said, we we have Emily York um here with us today along with uh DJ Supan, who's the GM over at uh York Chevy. um so they can be publicly thanked and recognized and get a chance to meet you all and to officially receive their certificate um from the Ohio School Board Association as a part of the business honor role. So thank you. I gave them the option to say some words they didn't want to earlier. Have you changed your mind? No. >> Okay. >> So thank you. >> Thank you so much for your partnership with us. We appreciate it. So many good things happening, you know. So many. Yeah. Just can't >> can't get over it. It's just wonderful. >> Mr. Abkey, don't go too far, please. >> All right. While Mr. Abkey
015is making his way to the door, um, tonight, before my superintendent's report kind of unfolds here, we'd like to spend some time recognizing a very special student, Lucas Carris, who is a student intern with us here at central office, working with uh, Miss Zicker and as a communications intern. So, kind of putting our business advisory council work into action. Um, we're going to highlight Lucas's uh film. Do you want me to play that first, Mr. Abkey? >> Sure. >> All right, let's do that. So, Lucas is helping us tell our story. And as long as we have sound, we should be good. Let's see. >> Three, two, one. through our um Parisburg Schools Foundation grant, we were able to purchase a couple film production cameras, um some sound equipment. We started a film production class
016a couple years ago and we use primarily student cell phones for recording. Um, I think learning the technology has been pretty awesome and knowing uh that there are tools out there, better tools for the job, um, has been pretty good. And they do definitely have to collaborate with each other because somebody learns how to use the tool and then they get to teach the others cuz we are using equipment, hands-on equipment and just theoretical, not just showing videos of what the film production teams really use, but actually being able to have these things in in front of us. Um, I think it really is important to be able to give us teachers the tools that create real world experiences. Uh, again, beyond just textbook learning and, um, showing examples, but being able to give kids
017experiences, um, that they would not have had otherwise is really key to helping students understand that there are so many more possibilities out there. Let's let that name hang in the lights for a moment. >> There you go. >> Yes. Mr. Abki, would you like to come up and tell us a little more about what Lucas is doing for the foundation? And Lucas, can you join Mr. Abki at the podium, please? >> I think Anaisa and >> Anna Lisa. Yep. Let's have >> Christine. So, um, so I'll backing up just a little bit. What you saw on the video, um, was a was highlighting a grant that was made to Corey Minehart's, uh, film studies class at the high school um, about a year, year and a half ago through the Parisburg Schools Foundation. So,
018he had put in a grant request for the equipment that you saw uh for his class and that was funded through the generosity of donors and um and then approved by the the schools foundation. And this is um you know, we've been struggling with this and my role and the foundation to say we've got donors that are doing great things and are are supporting us and we're so grateful for that. um and it's doing great things and we often talk about how many dollars have been raised and how many donors we have and that's important but we um probably have been missing the opportunity to tell the story about what the impact of of that has been. So we've been sort of wrestling with that and again with a limited uh resources and crews and
019and members of our our team that always became um is a continuing struggle. Um, so that's kind of been percolating around. And then, um, fast forward, Anna Lalisa reached out and talked about the intern and and Christine about we've got students that are looking to do internships. I was like, what's that? >> I said, we got this kid. >> We got this kid. Um, and so I don't know if you want to talk a little bit about the program and and then I can talk more about with the foundation it itself. Yeah. My name is Analisa Williams and I do all of our college and career readiness uh at Parisburg High School. Um and I think what you should know um is first of as a board like thank you so much for just giving
020me as a professional the the freedom to be able to do what I do at the best of my ability. And that's because I have creativity and freedom and a backing that I can reach my fullest potential. And when I am hitting on all cylinders, then I can reach back to the to the students and really and really pull them forward. So what what we were doing is that really Lucas Carris was sitting here and uh he's a senior in high school and it was just untapped potential and all I was is a facilitator. And so when I really thank you know Rachel and Marissa Dumbrossski and and Jeff Abkey for saying yes because the yes is what opens the door and that is extremely vital. So now it's just fitting the right people in
021the right places and navigating it in such a way that he can show who he really is through creativity. And we know the next steps after high school is for him it's going to be experience. How do kids get experience? It's because you guys have confidence in us to do what we need to do. He's going to come out of high school with a portfolio that nobody else has. And he it's going to open up his opportunities whether he steps um in that or not. But I just wanted to say that's how this came about is first the central office. Yes. Um but but also just the ability to see a well and and say, you know, I'm going to turn that faucet on and we're going to see what comes out. We knew it
022was I knew it was going to come out, but I I don't I don't think a lot of us did. But I do want to take a minute. Sorry, Lucas. I'll let you. He's a man of few words. But uh thank you to to his parents like um the character, the drive, the motivation. Um it does not go unnoticed. So, thank you for creating something that we can put out to the world. Um, but sorry, but that's um that's our internship program. Um, and he's a guinea pig. I mean, sorry, Lucas. It was like, uh, we're going to try this out and we're going to be really hard. You should have heard his interview from central office. Most adults couldn't pass that interview. and he's sitting there with his resume that we made together and
023just hitting question after question after question after question. He's acting like a 30-year-old man and he's 18 years old. I'm looking at him like, "Holy cow." So, that is he is really um the pioneer and he is cutting the path for what our future of internships is 100% going to look like. So, thank you. appreciate that. >> It's incredible. >> I I echo all of that. And and so the the process was Yeah. We put together a pretty robust interview for you and um and I'm going to Rachel and I sat down talked about this and we were we were nervous because we're like we've got full plate and while this is going to help us accomplish something, it's it's there's going to be some work and but it's one that we we were excited
024to do and especially after meeting Lucas. Um, so really what we've done, and it's Lucas has done 99% of the work at this point. We sat down with, I don't know, a list of about 15 or 20 different grants that we knew we would like to highlight. Um, Lucas sat down with us, helped us figure out which ones he was interested in, which ones were going to hit the best. Um, and we created a a sheet. And I don't, this was the first of I'm not going to put any pressure on how many you're going to get done. this semester. But um uh he's we basically said, "Here they are. Here's the teachers. We we prepped the teachers across the district to say, "Hey, the students going to be reaching out to you. Please help
025them as much as you can." And he has taken it from there. He's set up the times to go interview them. He set up the um getting the backstory, obviously, creating the videos, editing the videos, and um like you said, this first one came back and we were like, "Awesome." And I think you said you've got another you're doing another one Thursday. Is that right? So, um anyway, so we just want to say thank you, publicly thank Lucas and the team over at the high school for helping us do this and um we're excited. So, >> come on, Lucas, do it. >> It's been a fun opportunity making all these videos and I um I hope to make more. That's pretty much all I have to say, but thank you for giving me the opportunity
026to do this, Miss Williams, and thank you to the board of education. Do you want to go? >> The photographers in the picture this time. Yeah, there you go. What a beautiful way to illustrate the the two things coming together. That's just just remarkable. Thank you. >> Thank you so much for coming. It's a great video. Thank you so much for your work. really appreciate it. >> Looking forward to more videos there, Lucas. That was that was awesome. All right, that clears a room really fast, right? Oh, you know what? It's Randy. It's looking for your It's looking for yours. There we go. We are here tonight to celebrate our mission. Ensuring all students achieve their greatest potential, our vision where passion drives exemplary education. Certainly, we saw an example of that tonight. We are
027preparing future ready jackets who are thoughtful problem solvers, purposeful communicators, respectful collaborators, persistent innovators, lifelong learners, and empathetic citizens. Our core values, we value students as individuals. We inspire students to discover their passion. We challenge our students and ourselves. We provide a safe and inclusive environment. We manage our resources efficiently. We enrich our community. And we are trailblazers. I really do love this part about being an interim superintendent because my report generally reflects such good news and I love that. So, this was an example of great news that happened last week and this was our regional public service collaboration meeting. uh the board president and I and Mrs. Price is taking the picture. She's not in there. The treasur we got to meet regionally with representatives to talk about the future of Parisburg and how
028important the community or how important the schools are to the success of this community. We had a really great lunch together and collaboration and I think it sets a good foundation with new administration and for the mayor and newly elected officials gave us a chance to all get together which was great. We want to thank everyone who made our military appreciation night at Parisburg Junior High such a success. I don't know if you can get cuter than this. Woodland's facility dog, Angel led Mrs. Brown's class in a fun game of addition bingo as students practice their addition fact fluency. So, um, if you've ever seen a therapy dog in the classroom, this do Angel would go and get the cards, put them on the kids' desk, help them, uh, you know, encourage them. You can
029see her encouraging right here. So, and you can see the smiles on faces there to see that this is she's part of their day and makes their learning so much fun. number one in our hearts, number 13th in the nation. Our D1 Parisburg cheer team uh won 13th in the nation in their national competition. Uh Parisburg Junior High School was excited to welcome district fourth graders to the school for their annual music recruitment concert. And one student got to try out the bass, which was played by his big brother, which is adorable. Uh, seventh grade social studies students recently wrote letters to national, state, and local leaders about issues that concerned them. And in response, our own Parisburg mayor Mark Weber and city council member Carrie Wellstein came to the junior high to respond to
030students, which was great. They got to see civics in action. We have really loved watching the creativity that's poured in from our toe snow day challenge. Uh what a wonderful opportunity for kids to show what they're doing and what they're learning on our snow days, which hopefully we have experienced the last of. Bravo for Parisburg High School's winter spotlight festival. So much fun had Parisburg's high school mock trial team delivered a very impressive performance at recent district competition. Two teams represented PHS and team one won both of its cases and advanced to the regional competition and individual honors were awarded to six students. The excitement could be heard down the hall at Frank Elementary School. Way to go. National School Counseling Week was February 2nd uh to the 6th to focus public attention on the
031very unique contribution of school counselors within US schools systems. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you to our school counselors. HPI students were taking turns holding Dot the leopard gecko. If you look closely there, you can see Dot. It's our therapy gecko. Exploring snow through hands-on discovery. Measuring cups, scoopers, and strainers help these preschoolers investigate volume, texture, cause, and effect during sensory play. I think we've all seen this picture. And who doesn't love it? If you saw the blade, you also saw the wonderful, wonderful Mr. Jason Jordan. Uh he was named the MA uh band, middle school honor band director. Uh he is the band director at Hall Prairie Intermediate School. Students from the Perryburg High School Orchestra participated in 2026 Honors Orchestra at the Stranahan Theater. A favorite day of the month at Fort Meg's
032school is kindergarten buddies day. And this month, fourth grade students worked with their kindergarten buddy on a STEM activity, constructing an igloo using marshmallows and toothpicks. Cold hands, warm hearts. These HPI social studies teachers are warming up after bus duty. Again, hopefully not be as cold as they were in this picture for the rest of the winter. That would be really great. Job connection students really met with the city of P recently met with the city of Parisburg administration for an inside look at local government. such a great realworld learning experience. And a huge shout out to the city of Parisburg team for welcoming our students. Congratulations to these brilliant math count students who competed at the regional competition at the University of Toledo. PJHS earned first place and they are sending seven students to
033the state competition in March. Thank you to PHS DECA students Austin and Carter along with Mrs. all bright for planning a very successful PJHS career day. I heard people raving about this and the experience. I think they were a little surprised at just how brilliant our junior high students are. Of course, we are not surprised at all by that. Um, this is maybe the picture of the month. As they were arriving at school recently, three students were spotted holding hands and singing their good morning song together. and one student took the lead to orchestrate the whole thing which set set the tone for a really wonderful start to the day and a huge thanks to our bus driver Carla Brundret for capturing the sweet moment. Oh, darlings. That is this month's report. All right. Up
034next, I would like to welcome um Mr. Decker. Mr. Mr. Decker, you don't have slides, right? Okay, good. Because I don't have them. So, this is really a good moment. I just want to I I want to preface Mr. Decker's comments. Mr. Decker is a principal at Whole Prairie Intermediate, but I want to preface his comments this evening. And once again, although we can never do it enough, thanking voters for saying yes, because when they did, it's made conversations like this possible. I get a call or two a week from people that say, "Wait a minute, we cut these things and you said you weren't bringing anything back." And certainly if the answer had been no in November, we would not be having this conversation. But what we're doing carefully is trying to look at
035schedules and offerings and other other opportunities that will enrich our students lives that are not going to cost us any additional money. So what Mr. Decker is going to talk about tonight doesn't require any additional staff, doesn't require really doesn't require anything that's going to cost us money, but it we could not have done it if we had to make deeper cuts. So, when if you get asked the question board members, well, why didn't you do this to begin with? We couldn't have because we were anticipating in we didn't know what to anticipate in November. So, we had to kind of get through November to be able to look at what the possibilities were. So, this is kind of where we are. Mr. Decker is going to kind of walk you through, I think, what
036will be excellent news for families in the Parisburg schools. >> Hello. Good evening. Uh, I am Brandon Decker. I'm the new principal at HPI. Uh, I would like to thank Dr. Anstad, Mrs. Price, and the board of education for the opportunity to speak tonight uh about the potential of extending the whole prairie school day back to what it was prior to the failure of the levy. Um being in my first year, I get to learn every day. I learn something new every day. Uh it's fantastic. I do a lot of listening and through all this listening uh between our staff, our students and our families brought a team together at HPI and uh we we listened to the students and for example some of the students uh they said they really want to be a
037part of the school. They want to represent HPI. They want to have afterchool clubs. They want to take music and more STEM classes. Uh they also said they want a full day of lunch and recess, but you know, I don't think that's a possibility. Um our staff are so caring whenever we listen to them. They say, "Hey, we would like to align our jacket periods to provide enrichment and intervention to our students. We would like to supervise uh a club, volunteer their time to supervise a club. uh they would like to teach executive functioning skills and soft skills students need as they progress uh through the grades. We listen to the parents. The parents say they want a later release to help with uh their work schedules and their supervision schedules. Uh they also say
038they want an opportunity for enrichment and intervention times during the school day to help out their students and they want their students to be involved. So listening to our staff, students and parents, we got an HPI team together and say we we want to address these comments that are made and and we want to see if we can look at our school day to address some of these. So we started getting creative with the schedule and you know the the the comment was made well let's see if we can add the time back and be creative with the staff and the personnel that we have. We have lived the shorter school days and and we do believe it was the best option at the time. Uh with the redistricting and the efficiency of the new
039bus routes and the big classes moving out of HPI and into the junior high, uh we were able to get creative with the schedule and address these needs. uh with like I said the current staff and personnel that we have, we believe that adding the time back would better serve our families, better serve our students and allow for the student experiences that you've witnessed tonight. Uh we want the students to experience that from K12. Uh and we believe adding the time back and the creativity with the schedule uh would really support that student experience. Uh, I really appreciate your time and consideration uh of this matter tonight. >> Board members, do you have any questions? >> I think can you speak Thank you, by the way. Thank you for being here and thank you for
040figuring this out. Can you just um share with us a little bit more about how this is possible within the current contract limitations and the same amount of staff? >> Yeah, great great question. Uh so we spent a lot of time talking to other schools. Uh we spent a lot of time diving into our current schedule and um what we what we decided to do was add a hive period. Uh and again we're we're working through this. We're going to learn through this. Uh but add a hive period at the end of the day that isn't an instructional period. Uh that uh can be used for for reteing. uh can be used for some of the state mandates, can be used for enrichment uh intervention, uh can be used by the office uh to create
041some uh executive functioning lessons. Uh something that we hear all the time is the students are still learning schooly and it'd be great to put some lessons together to to do that. Um the the schedule is creative with our AB rotation um to allow students to take more electives uh and the way that the electives will also rotate on the AB schedule. Uh we'll be able to offer some electives to those students. Um staff is are able to uh STEM for example um we had prior to the levy a STEM we had different STEM classes. Um we can bring those back. is just a another prep. We already have a curriculum for it. It already matches the state standards. Uh but all we'll be doing is rotating it with the the AB schedule. So essentially
042we are adding another STEM course. Um but it's within the realm of the contract and it's already been done, but the creativity with the AB schedule allows the students to do that. Uh, one of the things that we really notice with the current schedule is that if a student is on a rimp or uh is in Wilson, they really don't have the opportunity to explore a lot of electives and it kind of restricts them. Um, so that was a real driving force is we want our students to want to come to school and that is exploring all the great things that we do. Um, so being creative with the AB schedule, uh, being creative with the offerings that we offered in the past and bringing those back within the realms of the contract are really
043what we focused on. >> Thank you. Um, I guess I have a question as to will that hive period, right, will it be set and mandated every day like this is what's happening on a Monday, this is what's happening on a Tuesday, or does it act almost as a free period unless things are metriculating down from the office? >> Yeah, fantastic question. Um, one of our big things is I don't want students to be bored and I don't want students to do busy work. like those are the things that we don't need them to do. Um the students will not have a hive period every day. Um it will rotate with the AB schedule. Um so half the day they'll be in uh it's it's very challenging to explain without the schedule behind me. Half
044the day they'll be in their jacket period. I'm sorry. Half the the A days they'll be in the jacket period. The B days will be in the high period. So essentially two to three days a week they'll be in the high period uh which will be uh planned by by the office or also they can go in for retaching or enrichment. It it also hits some of our state requirements with rimps. Um so the uh that is a big concern and we're going to be very intentional not to have the kids do busy work or have nothing to do. Um, and also there's there's something special about having a book and being able to read um that I think we need to start to help kids find their passion and what they like to read.
045>> You're speaking my language there with the reading. Um, but I think the only other question I have then is um, no, I forgot it went right out of my head when I got excited about hearing about reading. >> Oh, always accessible. Uh, I'd be happy for her. >> I have one to add. Um, can you explain how this will affect transportation for the for the full >> uh, that's a really great question. Um, I communicate with them, ask them if this is a possibility. Um, I don't have details with that um, you know, particular particular structure. Um, but >> but we did clear it with transportation. We didn't make a planation many times. We did. >> Hey, I'm going to go speak with the board. I'm just confirming that we've had those conversations. Those
046conversations have happened uh with transportation. >> I remember. Um so I think one of the things that I would be really interested in seeing is the ability for students to find teachers to go and ask for support themselves, right? I have a kiddo at HPI right now and there isn't a lot of wiggle room in the schedule if you know they miss a test or something. They're getting pulled in for recess usually. So does this allow for that to take place? Um are the teachers available for support during that time? >> Yes. And uh the way that it's organized is that uh the students will have that time uh with their teachers. Um so whether it be a jacket period or this hive period. Um actually I I didn't want to bring this up but
047stole the idea of hive from Anthony Wayne. They call it win what I need. Um so the students can play a role into what they need in this period as well um and have access to to the teachers. Uh one of the the big things that we heard from staff was you know we have so many kind of state mandates and testing and those kind of things like I I I don't want the day to be disrupted and um you know right now I'm pretty guarded with the time in the classroom with our tight schedule. Uh this will allow us to do those state mandates outside of the minutes of the classroom time. Uh and also allow kids to I missed I missed three days for the flu. Like this this time allows them to
048do that. Um and and like I said, it's not an everyday thing, but it is an AB rotation. U so they do have that flexibility to meet with the teachers. >> I have a question. you um mentioned what I need and for our kids who are um missing or no longer able to um participate in our higherend classes. Will this give them the chance to explore what they need to be um and continue their accelerated path or an innovative path? this this period definitely allows for that enrichment piece. Um you know the the unstructured that what they need some kids need to be brought up some kids need to be pushed. Um so these this period definitely allows that. Uh and the jacket period will allow that as well which would be the rotation of
049the A and B days. >> Okay. Thank you. And I really I really really appreciate the word push. >> The uh yeah the team at HPI has been fantastic. We spent a lot of time trying to find the best way for our students to be successful in the classroom, but also those those opportunities that allow them to want to to be there and and want to enjoy school. I'm always available if you have more if you want me to run you through kind of some simulations. There's, you know, building a new schedule, there's always going to be a little tweak here or there, but I'd be happy to spend the time. So, thank you for your consideration. I think this will be great for our for our kids and families. >> Thank you very much.
050>> Thank you, Mr. Decker. >> That's all I have. >> That's all you have. Okay, we have uh Wait a minute. That's not right. We're going to allow a five minute break right now for anybody who needs to take one or wants to move on to higher more exciting things to do for the day. So, five minutes. Let's come back at uh 6:49, please. We'll get back here. We do not have any signed up for First one, operations. >> Okay, so at the operations meeting, um, we talked about, um, there were some short staffing issues for food service, maintenance, and transportation, but they were all being very resourceful and ensuring continued service. And I don't think anybody else even realized they were short staffed. Um, they were getting new buses or new cameras for the
051buses, uh, and transportation. So, they talked about some of that. Um, the cameras will be more reliable and less resource intensive than the current cameras. Um, we discussed uh our buildings and how our buildings still need maintenance just like always. Um, so they're looking at some of the best options for how to break that up. Um, >> and already planning summer projects, right? Yep. already planning summer projects which also included which I thought was really cool um the lacrosse club is going to take on maintenance of the lacrosse field at Woodland um or I don't know if that's actually final final but they >> I think that was the discussion >> okay discussion of that as an op option for summer maintenance for that portion of our property um and again hopefully this winter weather's
052over and it's not a big deal but we discussed the fact that there's a salt shortage um but hopefully we're done salting Knock on wood. >> So, that was it. Oh gosh. Okay. >> I think we've successfully cursed ourselves with all the comments. I just want to point that out. >> Yeah. >> Oh, we can live in hope eternal, right? Um, personnel has not yet met. >> Yeah, next week. and pupil services. >> Okay. >> Um we met last Wednesday. Uh I'll just highlight um the roll out at Frank Elementary for the Caring Schools community curriculum is going really well and uh a lot of thankful parents as well and that they're lining up at uh Fort Migs and Tooth to have that roll out sometime next year. So, they're looking at that. Um, we
053just reviewed the special education profile, kind of the midyear unofficial report and everything is of course completely on target. Uh, and so they met all those targets. Power professional updates, they're short, but they're less short than they were a year ago. So, that's the positive news. Um, they were in the 90% 90ome percent field. They did have two people leave. So, but um that's doing better. And just a shout out that Andrea Glesser is going to be presenting at the OSBA special education law conference what she presented at the um November conference because it was wellreceived and they asked her to um share that at the law conference. >> So, shout out to Andrea for that. >> Oh yeah. >> Anything else? and development. That has not met, right, Susan? >> No, we have not
054met. PSF did meet. Um, they did approve one grant for 3D pens for Woodland younger uh students since they can't use the 3D printers. Um and then we also had a guest just to highlight uh Penelopey Gia Giam Marco was there on behalf of herself and Mia Williams who are the leaders for this year uh leukemia and lymphoma society student visionary champions raising money um shared the story of her father who was diagnosed with this and is doing well thankfully but they are raising money if people want to look that up. Oh, and they did share um so there were grants provided by PSF to every elementary school to cover the costs of field trips. And so three of the four schools had submitted just as a reporting um what they're going to be planning
055for field trips. So thanks to PSF, uh field trips are back on at the elementary schools. >> Oh, yay. That's good to know. Okay. All right, Mr. Drewer. It's your floor now. >> All right. Well, good evening everyone. The moment you've been waiting for, I'm sure. The financial reports and I'm not being facitious. It's a point I'm looking forward to, but just waiting for uh All right, so let's do the financial report first. >> Dr. Dr. Anston, >> you know what? I may I'll >> So, financial tonight. I'll break it in two parts. We got the normal financial report. Then I'll give you an update on the um financial on the five-year forecast. Um both are going to be fairly I think brief tonight. Hopefully, you feel the same way. Um couple things you talked
056about last month. I would start going through the financial report, give you uh describe what's in the reports. I'm I'm gonna forego that lesson tonight. Use my time on the forecast. So, I haven't forgot about it. We've got through the first couple sections of the financial report, but stay tuned till March. All right. Again, this is our our cash balance trend and we are at our lowest well at the lowest point of the year through January at this point. Normal trend. Um, but look at it more granular. This is this year. This is what I want to point out. If you notice the change from July the end of June to now, you see a drop of about $7 million. That's normal trend. And right now we have February is in there. February we're into
057our second payroll. Take another $5 million off of that. So with no property tax revenue since the late summer, early fall, we're down, you know, 112 million. That's why that cash balance at the end of the year is so important. You know, we talk about people, oh, you have $25 million, that's a ton of money. Well, no, it's not because between end of this one fiscal year and getting to this point, you're looking to 10 to 12 thou,000 million reduction depending on when we get our tax advances. And of course the tax reform stuff has slowed down um the you know the tax uh collections at this point. We still may see an advance this month but I won't know until I see it. The one thing great about Wood County is I don't have
058to ask for it if it's available. They automatically give it to us. Some counties make you beg for it enough. So um in the green box just a reminder that that was our if you will our forecast or budget beginning of the year it does not reflect the passage of the levy and it doesn't reflect updates that will be in in the forecast. So after assuming that you approve the forecast tonight that column will be updated for March to reflect the the new if you will reality or forecast for me. Um in the red circles you notice we're 86 true cash days and the trend you know as is normal at this time of year. Our revenue is down about 12% and mainly you know let's do the biggest bulk of that due to obviously
059tax collections at this point and and our expenses are down three 3%. Again both those things are tracking very well. I'm I'm I'm pleased with um you know how we're doing in that in that regard. I don't want to spend a lot of time, but just again income, our real estate tax is the big thing. We're waiting for our first tax payment this spring and that'll come at the end of the month here or maybe maybe the 1 of March, but it's we're getting close to that period. The the county treasur told me a couple weeks ago that collections look like they're on par. Just haven't been able to get out advances yet. And then on the you know, our biz expense is like broken record. It's salary and benefits and again small percentage in
060savings but they're relatively big dollars right so and this is a reflection of really last year's reductions in term particularly in in our classified staff and into the certified staff this year that's where those savings are are coming from. So that's really it. The message for this is we're financially on track per the forecast. Um, we'll be updating here the forecast in a minute and um, that may generate um, some more questions. So, any questions on this before I move on? If it's too fast, tell me slow down. But I'm I'm sure all really excited about it. I know Casey and Denise have told me over and over again how much they enjoy the financial stuff. >> Oh my gosh, you guys. Okay. So, as you know with this latest bianium budget, we've the the
061calendar for the five-year forecast has been moved. It was used to be May and November. Now, it's October and February. So, February is the is if you will the update. Um, and again, and now I showed you this the work session just remind you this is this is by statute. Um, it's it's supposed to engage us in a conversation about finances. It's also the basis for our 412 certificate. So, we're going to, you know, we're finishing up negotiations with the classified staff. Unless I can verify through a 412 certificate that we have the funds, I can't sign off on that. And it's also the tool that state uses to identify districts at risk. And may recall right after the levy passed, we got a letter from the state saying, "Hey, you're at risk um because
062our our our forecast, but fortunately the levy took care of that." And there's and also a reminder this is a forecast as today things have a habit of changing regardless if I like it or not and and the other thing it's a based on a set of assumptions I believe are correct or I wouldn't give it to you at this time but the assumptions could could also change. I would not be surprised if between now and the new fiscal year we're not updating the forecast with new knowledge and there's lots of resources out there. the the links in the report if you're if you don't get enough of it here. Plenty of things to read. And by the way, I find it interesting to go look at other district's forecasts and you can every district's
063forecast is available to us. So if you if you want to see how districts are doing around us or their assumptions, you you can look that up. All right, a little reminder. So prior to the levy, this red line was our trajectory on our cash balance at the end of the year. And notice once you get P you hit 2028 we were negative. That put us in prefiscal caution. If we did nothing if we the levy had not passed we would have had to submit a plan to the state by now how we're going to raise that get that cash balance above zero. We passed the levy. Thank you very much Parisburg voters. And it puts us in a positive spent through 2030. Then the legislators get involved and governor sign some bills that that
064do some tax reform, property tax reform and the blue line is our new reality. So that huge gain we got because of the tax the levy, a portion of that is going to be eaten away by these this tax reform. Now you've heard this once, but I just want to kind of go through this again, make sure it's kind of on the public record. So back in October, I had for uh and what I try to do with these forecasts is that there's so many numbers. So let's let's kind of put our eye on one number as a benchmark. So if you look at the cash balance at the end of fiscal year 2030, we'd be about $4.8 million. That's where we thought we'd be in October with the passage of the levy. Well, with
065my update, you'll see that that shifts by $11 million to a negative6 million, mostly due to the impact of property tax. It's not the only thing, but that's the vast majority of that shift, that $1 million shift is due to the bills that the governor signed in December. So, our new target, if you will, which obviously cannot happen because you can't we can't end the year that way between now and 2030. There's going to have to be some some changes. But that's a discussion for not for tonight. But nice that we do have a little bit of time. But if you look at the if you look at the top line, the red, you'll see that our revenue is relatively flat over the five years. There's a little bit of growth. we'll talk about when
066we get to property taxes. And then you'll see in the total expenditures, you see growth there. That's what it is. Our revenue is flat, but our expenses are growing now. So, that was what I presented at the at the work session. We've had just a slight change since then and not necessarily to the better, but it's about $175,000 change. And I'll explain that. And it's completely on the expenditure side. We've had a couple expenses come up that I've had to include. Now, I'm not saying those are they're going to happen, but doesn't mean there's not some things we can't do to try to offset it. We just haven't necessarily identified them at this point. If you notice, still flat revenue and the change is some some minor changes in expenses. There are four bills that
067were approved, but three of them really impact us. House Bill 335 which limits the growth on inside millillage. House Bill 186 limits the growth on outside millillage and but was retroactive to 2023. That was kind of a kicker. And then House Bill 129 really impacts us because it includes fixed sum levies in the floor calculations. We were at the floor until they did this. And so that's where we lose most of our revenue growth because we were at the floor and we're no longer at the floor. And I know 20 mil Denise I know that 20 mil her eyes are going counterclockwise here. Sometime we'll sit down we'll walk through what that that 20 mil calculation is but it's right here. So if you look at prior to this legislation we had 4.3 mills of
068inside millage and 15.7 and voted millillage. Those two add up to 20. That was the 20 mil floor. And what we don't one of the holdups on um with the looking at what our growth is going to be is this number here. The as of last week and week before the county auditor had not got had not received this number yet from the state department of taxation which is the inflation number. We're I'm assuming 13%. Which would be the maximum growth we could have on inside millillage. And in 2023 when we had the update year, our total class one combined was 25%. So that's where that house bill 186 comes into play. We'll essentially taxpayers are going to get a credit between the difference between those two numbers. We don't know what it exactly is
069right now. My estimate for us is about $2 million. We're going to lose $2 million in revenue from property tax, but the state's supposed to make that up. So it should be a wash for us. is just going to look weird um next fiscal year. And that and that last number down at the bottom, that's that that's my estimate on on the taxpayer credit. So, think about all the taxpayers in Parisburg schools. The total credit is 1.9 almost $2 million. So, you can tell me when you get your tax bill if you even notice it. So here the one of the major assumptions in the forecast is how we're in an update year this year. What happens in an update year is they take a look at homes sales of homes and look at that
070and then they decide you know do they need to update the valuations. It's it's not a full appraisal. It's just based on sales and I hadn't forecast an increase of 18.6%. In the end, it really doesn't matter what I forecast because we're going to be limited to whatever the inflation number is. And right now, that estimated number is 9%. So, we'll see a little bit of growth on inside millage, but only nine 9% not not to 18, but we'll also see our inside millage drop. And this is the point of contention constitutionally that that inside millig remember each county has been given 10 mills of nonvoted mill in the constitution and they divide it up the way they want. In in Wood County we get 4.8 mills of that. The other 5.2 are divided up
071between the townships and counties and other entities. Well, that used to be kind of like sacred. That doesn't change. Now with these laws that inside millillage is going to effective millage is going to drop and we're looking at a loss of maybe 7%. And we'll also see outside millage drop a little bit. And this box here is our fixed sum millages normally drop anyway. Right? As valuations go up the fixed sum levies only generate what they're allowed to generate. So the voters voted for 11 million. it can never generate more than 11 million. So you'll notice um I don't know if I have it circled but in um we're at 16.8 mills on the U fixed sum millillage next year it's going to drop to 14.5. And also notice that the millage change at 7.6
072that's the new levy we and if if you remember the ballot language it was 7.83 was our estimate but the actual millage is only going to be 7.6. six and so automatically you see it's going to adjust for valuations and oh down at the bottom >> before you go >> yeah by by the way by the bo bottom you see our total mil voted millage we have to get to 20 again to get really inflationary growth and of course it's probably not going to happen in my lifetime >> I just just to clarify you had said that that 18.6% 6% expected increase in property values doesn't matter because of the 20 mil floor and us not being at it and the level being limited to the inflation. However, that is that estimate will impact our
073wealth calculation like if if you're wildly off of that does that change our income very much? >> Yeah, that's a good point and it's a very good point actually. So the law limits our growth, but it doesn't limit our growth in wealth. So if and when we get back to actually formulafunded at the state level, it would mean that we are wealthier and we're not going to collect as much local property tax and we're not going to be do as much state support. So it's a double whammy. Now, and I haven't run all the simulations yet on this. If and I'm hoping when we get actually fund the fair school funding formula and update the base costs, it will impact but not not as much. Impacting the base cost is going to be the mo
074most important piece of that. Okay. So, let's again this is the new bottom line numbers. You see the true cash days. All right. All right. So, I'm going just walk through and you've seen most of this. There's really no major there's no major changes. There's no changes in the revenue since we talked at the um work session. So, but if there's any questions on this, stop me. I'm just going to kind of breeze through. Um I will say we've seen slight increases in tax revenue because of new construction and we do get a little bit of growth on inside millillage up to level inflation. That's it. And you'll see right now I'm still holding that our tax collections follow the previous trend. And the big change you'll see here in fiscal 27 is um is
075due to that that tax credit being shifted from property tax to um state reimbursement. No really changes in in personal property. Um income tax. We've talked about this. Um, since my October forecast, I've been a little more conservative on our growth. We're still doing good income tax collections, just not quite the same pace. So, $11 million I was talking about, about a million and a half comes from from being a little bit bearish on my income tax assumptions. Now, we get another payment this year. Every time we get a payment, that changes my trend a little bit. So, I am being a little bit conservative here, and I recognize that. But, um, I think I'm okay with it if you're okay with it, I guess. Okay, if you could tell me what's going to happen
076with state funding, I'd appreciate it. Right now, I'm assuming what's happening now is going to continue to happen. The only question is like we got a nice boost because of our um enrollment growth and our performance, you know, being a five-star district. Whether or not that's going to continue, I don't know, but we're I'm going to keeping us relatively flat at this point. Um, and and what's going to happen, and this is the this is the frustrating thing, is the orange line is the state share of our base costs, and we're getting down towards 10%. >> Yeah, that's that's the slide. >> And and the other thing is disheartening here, even though we're, you know, we had a drop off this year enrollment, but we're going to continue to grow as a district, the the
077green represents guarantee. That means the state has set a minimum funding and we're getting the minimum funding and no recognition of any growth. And partially it's because we're this is where that wealth calculation comes in, right? We're growing but we're gotten wealthier faster than we're grow than we're growing. And so it puts us farther and farther on the guarantee. Now having said that, if we get to update the base cost of the fair school funding formula, it erases most of that, right? We'll be we'll be funded. All right. um and restricted that's just no that is no nothing major there it's just our normal it's CTE it's student wellness those kind of dollars that are state reimbursement I just want to point out the big change in 27 is that re is the credit tax
078credit that we're to get made whole through the um sales tax holiday fund and the last line is all of the revenues and it's going down because our cash balance going down. Our earn our earnings are are going to be reduced. It makes sense. Got less money invested, less earnings. Okay. Expenditures. This is where there is a change that I I need to discuss with you. Our major assumption we weren't adding any new positions. Didn't mean we weren't placing replacing positions. We weren't going to add new, you know, number if you will number of people. um and the lift, you know, salary freeze for exempt administrative and then kind of normal inflationary based step uh increases for um for the classified and certified. What has changed is it looks like we're going to get a
079slight reduction in our federal grant funds particularly in our idea. That's for dis um disability funds and we're going to we're going to probably have to move one staff member from grant funded to general fund. That's built in here. Now, not to say that we're not looking for some savings to offset that, but for right now, I've built that in to be kind of the most conservative way to look at it. We're also looking at based on case load, the need to add a part-time occupational therapist. I've built this into salaries and benefits, but it could end up being a purchase service. Again, it's going to come to the bottom line with the same impact. Now we're, you know, we're not ready to talk about openly yet, but we have a tenative agreement with OPC
080and those numbers are built into the forecast. We also built into it, it's once we get kind of OC settled, we'll be coming back to the board recommendations for the exempt admin staff, those recommendations are built in here, too. So, if you if you will, everything is built in that I know of at this point. Um, so I there's nothing really should be no surprises unless we the one thing that's not built in is the impact of retirements. We have 12 CLA certified staff members retiring. What we'll do is um HR directors does a great job. We keep track of, you know, who's retiring and the replacement. What we bring them in and once I have a clear picture of that differences, I'll build that in the forecast. I don't want to speculate at this
081point because as Dr. An probably tell you depending on the position there's there may be lots of English language arts teachers but no French teachers. So we don't know what step we'll bring people in on. So I kind of want to not box myself in until we know. Again it's it's that little kind of conservative nature on me. So I kind of think this is almost I won't say worst case but um it worse for what we know right now. >> Just to clarify when you talk about the reduction in the IDA funds um that's that's due to the federal budget not that we expect to have less students with disabilities that we're serving. >> That is correct. In fact we expect to have more >> more because you need to add an OT. >>
082Yeah. >> Okay. So, so the $175,000 change, if you will, it's this is where it's being driven from. Okay. So, just it's it's, you know, I've gone through and tweaked some other um as I've looked through the expenses. I've tweaked a few areas on supplies and purchase services. Look, maybe they were a little bit estimated a little bit high. I've tweaked them down, but the really the major impact came from adding these positions. When I say adding Yeah. That's Laura, you have a question. >> Yes. Um really just a clarification from you on the base cost of fair school funding formula. Um the year base that that's based off of. >> So right now it's based on 2022. So if you think about it, what's happened since 2022? We've had four years. And I don't
083know about you, but uh my household bills are not the same as they were in 2022. Yeah. >> Yeah. Thank you. That's a good question. Just again want to reinforce on insurance uh I mean benefits we're not expecting any change requirements for withholding for state teachers retirement or serves and right now for this calendar year we got 5% built in the premium. I've got 9% built into future years. We've met with um our consultants. They think that's we think that's fair. We are we are actively looking at other options to try to I don't know we don't know if there'll be anything there but we're looking at prescription programs and some other programs to control those costs. Obviously we are self-insured. Our costs are what our employees use, right? Obviously there's administrative costs on top
084of it, but really if you think about it, every dollar that we spend on insurance is going to provide care for our employees and their dependents. and we do have some high claimments and that's that's a nature but we are looking at consortiums and other ways to try to mitigate our risk and keep our costs down. Um don't have any proposals yet right now. Our priority is our stop-loss insurance for next year and looking at prescription drug programs. There's a there's a couple cool options out there that we're talking about. And I would like to highlight too that um traditionally with premiums if you can stay in the single digits that is amazing and that's what we are looking for. Um I have seen them in the low 20s and that is not what what
085a finance committee wants to have to deal with. So >> and we have a very we have a healthc care committee who really are engaged and have these conversations and emphasizing a lot of personal responsibility. Right. Make not saying don't don't go to the doctor but but um think about what you're doing and make informed decisions. Right. Go to urgent care rather the emergency room. If it's not urgent get you know go see your your you know your general practitioner. Those kinds of decisions as well as just plan your labs. Why do labs twice for two different doctors? Things like that that people can control their own costs if they think about these kinds of things. Is there any increase in our welfare services at all or is there >> um I can't remember what
086year we were in the contract with them. There will be some admin administrative increases but we've increased the hours because of demand. Um, we continue to be the biggest user of that. And the nice thing about that is the the the the wellness clinic is supported by Parisburg schools, city of Parisburg, and Principal Business Enterprises. And it's we pay a fee based on the number of members. So we take the number of members in our insurance pro program and then you add them up. So we're if you will, we're the highest user. So the other two entities are supporting us, if you will. But we're looking at ways to try to expand those services. For example, maybe there's different we do they do some medication distribution out of there. They have pharmacy that's very competitive
087costwise. They're not and so maybe there's some other pharmace pharmaceuticals that they could carry that would support us that keep the cost down. And like I said, the utilization is um incredible and and not only that, it's convenient. >> Yeah. uh purchase services again right now we're at 3 to 4% uh special education is the biggest driver here we'll have one little I say little but blip starting in January 27 storm water assessments from the city and that could be anywhere from 28 to $50,000 a year supplies and materials again mostly inflationary there's some adjustments for enrollment this is one of those areas I'm looking at heavily now going into budget ing time, you know, what do we spend per student, you know, and rationalize some of that. But we've had some significant savings there.
088The big jump, by the way, was because we took some stuff that was outside of general fund and we brought them in general fund. We had we had fees called um un what's uniform school supply fees. They're outside the general fund. We've brought those in. So, there's revenue that goes with those expenses. So it's there was a jump there but there was also revenue that went went with it. Um capital outlay this is an interesting one we've talked about um I have this is an area that we increased since October mainly because you heard like an operations Denise where you know we got to look at some maintenance plans long term and maybe we do some lease purchases. our PI fund is being used now as um Miss Roland Miller's point out you know ideally
089we we wouldn't spend um capital out of the operating account but that's our that is our dilemma right now but is a good conversation piece that if you look at our capital as well as these lease purchase stuff that could all be out of PI fund and if the community would support a higher PI fund for these kinds of items that would take some pressure off the general ederal fund. So, that's a conversation we're we're teeing up down the road to take a look at. But, you think about, you know, this capital outlay as well as all these um these other funds that could all be PI dollars. So, what is that? You know, you're talking about over a million dollars to $3 million that could come out of general fund if we had PI
090money for it. And that's a strategy as we look at long-term funding for the district. And last thing, as we've talked about other objects, that's just the fees that we pay. Department of Taxation, the county auditor and treasur mostly. There's some insurance and attorneys fees in there. Dave, is he still sitting here? >> He's gonna walk out again. >> Sorry. Charged. >> All right. Again, bottom line, folks, next couple years, we're good. I mean, we I'm going to be sound like a broken record here. We got some urgent things to deal with, but we're not we're not in crisis. We're not in emergency, but we got to talk about facilities. We got to talk long-term finances and they're and they're going to be interconnected and we'll look at them going forward. And I guess my
091urge to the board is get our next next leader hired and then that's this in my mind's the first thing on our plate him and I her and I start working on these kind of things for the board. You may have some other agenda items from the financial side. That's my that's my top agenda items. >> That's it for the five-year forecast. So the takeaway is not a huge change to sell the work session just some added expenditures mainly for some needed personnel. So, any other questions, comments? If that was >> took too long, I apologize. >> No, no, it's one of the most important things we do. So, >> thank you. >> Good to know, Mr. D. Good to know. >> Right. Do I have a motion to approve the agenda items 8.2 to
0928.3, please? >> So, move. Second. >> Okay. Lord, Susan. Uh, roll call, please. Mr. Dur. Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. >> Miss Phillips, >> yes. >> Miss Haywood, >> yes. >> Miss Lammer, >> yes. >> All right, finance committee, do you have anything to add? >> I do not. >> I like how you just interject right along with it. That's that's really cool. That's that's helpful. Okay, if we go on to board committees and discussions. Um, really the only one that Wait a minute. Student achievement. That one was moved, right? No. Or you did move that. Wait a minute. Which I'm thinking communic community engagement. Yes. Never mind. Student achievement. Okay. Go ahead. Um we spent the session talking about um the change to the grading policy and I believe
093that will be presented in the March um working session. And so um I think just a high level overview of that it they're looking at changing grading practices for 5 through 12. They have been working with um Dr. Burgon from BGSU um who focuses on assessment and um they were I think they probably have it now but they were in the process of getting feedback from staff. Um they had sent out some surveys and so they were waiting on that to come back um before they met again and made any other decisions or final decisions. Um, but I think that the the core beliefs that they're kind of guiding this group with are that grades should reflect academic performance alone, grading should support ongoing growth, which I really appreciate. Um, and grading should encourage responsible
094learning behaviors. And so that's kind of the the driving um beliefs that uh they're taking as they kind of meet in this group with all of these different um members of the school and the community and things like that to ensure that we are moving our kids forward in a way that makes sense. Um they also talked about gifted services and how we are looking to train some of our five to eight teachers uh to support our gifted students within gened classes. And so, um, while they won't they will be certified, but they won't technically be state certified, but they will be able to provide those services to the students within the classroom. Um, and so that's exciting to be bringing back some services for those gifted students. Um, an elementary update, music studio, is
095being phased out and they are currently piloting a new program. Um, and then with secondary updates, they are replacing home room period with what they're calling a jacket period. Um, this was a decision that was highly supported by the teachers. Um, it means less interruptions during the day. Um, and it allows kind of an end of the day session where if they need to pull out certain groups of students, they're able to do that without interrupting the school day. Um, they are currently in the fourth year of STEM curricular review and then we will be meeting again March 9th. >> Awesome. Anything else on on this? And I can't believe I missed it and Dr. Anset pointed it out to me today in our board buzz from January 30th. If you happen to glance over
096it, I guess I did, there is a podcast in there and I listened to that this afternoon. And if you didn't listen to it or missed it like I did, I would really urge you to go back to the January 30th buzz and listen to that podcast. It's not long. It's only about 15 minutes and it will blow your mind. >> It's in the minutes, too. So, it's posted here for everybody. >> It is so good. It is so interesting. I love the the way that they presented it and the psych and the banter that they were doing back and forth with each other because as soon as you're asking and wondering a question that comes out and then the lady answers it, it's just it's really super well done. So I would encourage you
097to um listen to that or listen to it again before our next work session. >> Dr. An, >> can I just clarify? Is the >> I'm about to do that. No. So can I interject with that? Yeah, thank you. You you read my mind. So, we often talk about grading policy because that's how we refer to it, but we're not asking you to change board policy. I do believe in the end there probably will be policies that may have to change, but what we're having you look at in March is grading practice. That's what teachers and administrators and BG that's what they've been working on is our practices. So, but we're not asking you to look at any policy on the fourth. Um, >> say that again. Did I say policy? >> No, no, no.
098That's okay. No. And that's that's how we refer to it, right? This is our policy on grading. But sometimes that gets confused and that's a natural word that we use, but it gets confused with board policy. They're not the same in this case. So, one is not the same as the other. >> Yeah. >> I I like your We came up with guidelines this afternoon, and I like the word practices. So, either one works works really well. Okay. Um, let's move on to consent agenda. Do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? >> So moved. >> All right, Mrs. Phillips. A second. >> Second. Mrs. Roland Miller, are there any changes that need to be made? >> Hearing none. Do I have a roll call vote, please? Mr. Durer, >> Miss Phillips, >>
099yes. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. >> Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Miss Haywood, Miss Lmer, >> yes. You should have pulled out Don and voted against it, but >> sorry, Don. >> Yeah, >> I do want to just Yeah, I do want to mention that just before we go on, uh, on tonight's agenda, we do have a certified retirement for Mr. Christie. He's not here this evening. We certainly will want to talk about him to his face, not, you know, behind his back. So, when he is able to attend the board meeting, we certainly will talk more about that, but we wanted to get this on tonight so that we can get this position posted. clearly a very critical position in the district and during hiring season is a really exciting time to be
100talking about it. So, >> and of course we will volunteer him for everything since he is not here tonight. Um, all right. So, board discussion. Um, let me catch up. I wrote notes on here. Let me All right. >> I don't know. Let me just while you're looking. So, community engagement. I don't know. I I haven't tracked when that's meeting again, but I was um talking with another board member uh in conversation with someone from Bowling Green and they had a really interesting idea that they're working on right now where they are pulling together uh all the different entities that will be impacted negatively if uh we're crazy enough to repeal property taxes. um and just the the impact that that would have and creating a forum about that and I just thought that that
101was a really interesting idea for our community to gather together whether it's way public library you know all the different services that we have as well as some of the county services to to talk about why that may not be the best idea for our state. >> It is one of the things that we talked about when we brought um community leaders together for that lunchon this week. Uh but I think we need to move on that sooner rather than later. >> And the meeting's the 25th, I believe. >> Okay. >> 25th is Yep. Community. Yep. Thank you. >> Oh, for community engagement. Okay. >> Okay. All right. So, you should have received now um because I forgot to do this during the retreat for you. And this is from the Ohio School Board Association.
102It's their description of of the award that I talked about earlier. Um you'll notice that under mandatory activities I highlighted high highlighted um all of the bullets except one because all of those bullets that are highlighted are things that we already do have mentioned that we want to do or have already planned to do. And I thought wow we've got all of them except one already. the ones that would actually cost us a little bit of money have dollar signs and that's only three of them more or less. Um, so if you could take a look at these, I don't want to take the time to do that because we've got a full executive session tonight, but if you could look at this by our next work session, um, and I've been doing a little
103bit more research on it. Um, and then we can talk about it at the work session. Okay? and not spend our time doing that since we have guests waiting. Is that all right? Is there anything else for board discussion? >> Well, I think at the retreat we talked, you know, we raised that several of us had hoping for an outcome of the retreat, but it wasn't five days long, so we didn't have time to do it. Was really to talk about kind of what our goals and sense of purpose as a board are. be beyond the most important thing right now, which is is um hiring a great superintendent to take us into the future. But I do think um I realize that we we're going to have to move the July retreat whenever we
104can figure out when that is. But I I'm just wondering and maybe again we can talk about the work session if we want to schedule another time to really talk about what are some goals that we have for community engagement and finance and student achievement. Um, since we definitely didn't have enough time at the retreat to talk about those, >> since we have grading on the March work session, could we schedule that for maybe the April work session? Would that be all right with everybody? >> Sure. >> All right. I'll put that on the docket. >> Okay. And Susan, you just nailed bullet number two. All right. We are going Oh, wait a minute. I have to get a motion to move into executive session. Um, I'm assume I'm sorry. We're all done with board
105discussion. Is there anything else? Any other questions? Didn't mean to dive in there without checking. >> Just doing the board summary for this meeting. >> Who's responsible? >> So, Rachel's going to do a summary and then send it to the board president. Um, and then you can either distribute it or however you want to handle it, but we decided for this one, we'll have Rachel do it and then we'll get on a schedule. >> Okay. >> All right. Does that sound reasonable? >> Make sure I wasn't >> You're not in charge. >> Good news. No, we'll make Don do it since he's not here. All right. Um, hearing no more discussion, I would like a motion to move into executive session to uh for the appointment, employment, dismissal, discipline, promotion, demotion, or compensation of an
106employee or official or investigating of charges or complaints against an employee, official, licency, or student requests a public hearing. Do I have a motion? So move Miss Mankey second. >> Miss Haywood second. Roll call. Mr. Drewer. >> Miss Minkkey. >> Yes. >> Miss Haywood. >> Yes. >> Miss Phillips. >> Yes. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer. >> Yes. We will move into executive session. There will be no action taken after our session. Thank you for coming.