001Well, good evening and welcome to the regular board meeting of the board of education of Parisburg for November 24th. Uh, Mr. Drewer, could you do roll call, please? >> Mr. Bennington >> here. >> Mr. Anderson >> here. Miss Mankey. Miss Lmer >> here. >> Miss Roland Miller >> here. Uh, if we could all please stand and say the pledge of allegiance together. I pledge algiance >> algiance 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. >> We are um excited to have such a full room today. Thank you for those of you who are sitting on the floor. We ran out of chairs. Um, but we do want to make sure everyone is safe this evening.
002Uh, just please recognize that there are exit doors on both the east and the west side of the building. Uh, there is an AED located on the wall right outside these doors in the lobby. And if you need to call um an emergency personnel, you're located at 140 East Indiana Avenue. Uh our first uh item is to adopt the proposed agenda. Before we uh look at that agenda, I do want to remind everyone of our purpose and our responsibilities. Um the board's purpose is to represent the community's values and aspirations for public education in order to build a solid foundation of lifelong learning for every student by establishing the school district's vision and mission. setting strategic objectives for student achievement, ensuring necessary resources are available. And our responsibilities are defined as planning for the future,
003engaging the community, monitoring student achievement, providing and stewarding our resources, hiring, supporting, supervising of the superintendent and treasurer, setting policy, and educating the community to advocate for public education. In order to fulfill those responsibilities, we have an agenda in front of us. Um, I have no amendments to the agenda at this time. Could we have a motion to approve the agenda as presented? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Miss Lmer, Mr. Bennington, Mr. Dur. Roll call, please. >> Miss Lammer, >> yes. >> Mr. Bennington, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. Uh, next thing on our agenda then is our recognitions. And so I'll turn it over to Dr. Anstead. >> Good evening everyone. So great to see everybody this evening. I'd like to start by introducing our athletic
004director, Chuck Jacob. >> Needs walk up music. >> You do need a walk up song. >> We're going to have to think of that for the future. From now on, everybody gets a walk up song. >> Yes, we need to implement that. That would be awesome. >> Yes. Well, good good evening. Um once again, thank you for the opportunity to rep recognize uh our fall state qualifiers this evening. Um this was was truly a very special fall for our athletic department. And if it's okay, I'd like to kind of brag about some of the accomplishments of all of our teams. Before we go into tonight's ceremony, um this fall, our our cheerleaders were NLL champs. Our boys golf team qualified as a team for the districts. We had a girls golfer who individually qualified for
005the districts. Our football team was NLLL champs. Our soccer boys team were NLLL champs and regional finalist which was elite 8 in the state. Our girls soccer team here tonight were NLL champs, regional champs and state final four. Our volleyball team was in the regional finals, also in Elite 8 appearance. Our girls tennis team qualified for the state final four in the OCTA tournament. Our girls cross country team were NLLL champs, regional runners up and team state qualifiers. And our boys cross country team were regional champs and state runners up. But of course, our biggest victory this fall was for our community and the support for our school levy. And on behalf of all of our student athletes, and every student at Parisburg, I thank our community, the voters, our school board for your continued
006support, our central office administration for their leadership. Um we're we're very grateful to to continue to have these type of moments to brag about our our student athletes here at the high school. Um so now for our special guest this evening. I won't steal any thunder. I'll allow the co the head coaches to introduce each of their teams. Um I believe our first program on the agenda tonight is our boys head cross country coach and that will be Keith Maderas to share a few words about the season and introduce the team. [applause] >> [applause] >> Good afternoon. This feels pretty formal up here at this mic with my back to everybody, but um just quick thank you to the board of education and the administration, the parents, and the coaches who are here this evening.
007Congratulations to all the other fall athletic teams for a successful a successful fall. Um, this was our best year. I think Parisburg boys cross country's best year uh in school history. State runner up. That's pretty good for them. Um, I just want to take a second and talk about team success. You know, we we often hear all the coaches talk about including everyone on your team in your team success. And I thought the regional meet was kind of neat for us because in cross country we compete with seven boys. And if you you only scored the top five, but your sixth and seventh place runners or your sixth and seventh boys are we call them placeholders. And so this year's meet was interesting because uh there was one other good school mentor and us. Uh
008if you score the meet five runners against five runners, they actually beat us. But because of our sixth and seventh boys who normally don't score in a meet, they both finished in front of Menor's fifth man which pushed them back pushed them back two points and we actually ended up beating them by based on two guys who typically don't even score. So when we say that, you know, we run for everybody and we include everybody in our results, truly that was the case at the regional meet this year. Um, I just want to introduce our guys real quickly. Uh start with our seniors if that's okay. I've got Brody Balman. Do you want them to come up [applause] down here? >> Brody was an all Ohio runner this year. Uh Gavin Butler, [applause] Jacob Kramer,
009[applause] Kenneth Morgan Jr., and Kenneth was an all Ohio runner this year. [applause] Dylan Sabila and Ethan Williamson. [applause] Those were our seniors. Noah Madden was our lone junior on the varsity team at the state championship this year. [applause] And our two alternates this year were juniors Max Tanzy and Canon Whitesides. [applause] >> Thank you again for for everything that you do for our athletes. >> Thank you. [applause] for everybody. >> Two rows. It's >> quite the trophy. >> Our next coach this evening to introduce the girls cross country program is head coach John Mannheim. [applause] >> [applause] >> Thank you, Mr. Jacob. Thank you for you allowing us the opportunity to recognize these fine student athletes. This is a tradition for us that that we enjoy. I want to first start by um just
010saying a few things about the the girls team. Uh they were the league champs for the eighth year in a row. They were the regional runner-ups and they finished seventh at the state meet and and the group continued a streak of obviously NLL titles, but they also continued a streak of top 10 finishes at the state meet at six years, which is which is quite an accomplishment. Um, I first want to bring up the the coaches that help. We have 55 girls. I I I can't control them all. Uh, I can't control the the nine of them that are here. So, it's I'm I'm grateful to have assistant coaches that help run with the girls every day and they deserve a lot of credit for the success we have. So, coaches Osborne, Doiver, and Sliva,
011if you could come on up. [applause] [applause] And then I I'll start uh with the freshman. Uh we had two freshman on the uh state meet squad and that is Payton Young and Julia Matzel. [applause] [applause] We had three sophomores, Emma Roi, Lexi Schultz, and Charlotte Baxter. [applause] We had two juniors, uh, Errol here tonight, but Elysa Heindman [applause] and we had three seniors this year. Uh, they're going to be missed greatly. They've been incredibly productive athletes and and just great students and ambassadors for our sport and our team. First off is Emerson Goward. [applause] Unfortunately, Emerson >> [clears throat] >> uh suffered a stress fracture in her hip with about three weeks left in the season and she was vital to our early season success and we missed her at state meet. Emerson will
012be running in college. She hasn't decided where yet, but she will continue on in college. And then our last two, uh, first off, Brayley Beckan, [applause] 27th in the state of Ohio, which is all Ohio. So, she's one of a handful of of girls in the program's history that has been all Ohio. And Brayley is going to continue her student athlete future at Marshall University. [snorts] >> Correct. [applause] And her sister Kayn Beckan. [applause] Kayn was al she finished 29th in the state in the top 30 individuals receive all Ohio honors. Kayn's going to be continuing her education and her athletic career at Eastern Michigan University. So congratulations ladies [applause] and thanks again for recognizing us tonight. >> Laura, do you want to And our final program this evening to be recognized is our girls
013soccer program. Uh being introduced by head coach Jorge Diaz. [applause] >> Thank you very much again for recognition. I was at the high school last year. Again, we have group of talented kids that uh made history as well being the only team that ended up in the final four for consecutive years. So that's an impressive uh uh fit for for all these girls. So clap it off. [applause] Um this is a a difficult time for me because this is my last year, but at the same time I enjoy thoroughly being part of the Parisburg community for so many years. And I've seen kids, you know, start playing soccer five years and end up right now. And that's the satisfaction that I get. And for them to be recognized by you guys is tremendous. So I
014will go ahead and start with the little ones with which the freshman. We have one freshman uh in our group. Riley, come on up. [applause] We have two sophomores, but only one here. The sophomore is not here is London Longoria. And then we have little Ava. [laughter] [applause] And we have uh juniors. Uh she's not here, Alexa Perry. Uh, and is not here Gracie Taylor, but we do have here Leah Geti. [applause] We don't have Violet Benji, but we do have Kendall Mefford, [applause] McKenzie Moody, [applause] Eliza Bird, [applause] Lauren McCi, [applause] Bella Reville. [applause] in first time history. Also, we had the top number one play on ESPN. Top plays, Tori Trinski. [applause] Yeah, you made Parisburg famous. Good job. >> And now, finally, our wonderful seniors. Tremendous uh senior class. I'm going to
015miss them. Uh Avery Reic, [applause] Sophie Mitchell, she's not here, but we do have Lexi Decker. [applause] [applause] And last but not least, our four captains this year. tremendous players all the way through. Uh three of them started since they were freshman. Uh the fourth one started as you know as a sophomore and have been tremendous players for us, tremendous leaders. Uh Addison Brown, [applause] Kinsley Jones, [applause] And we also have two all Ohio players as well. Camille Francis [applause] and Emma Octal. [applause] And I couldn't do all this without my staff as well. You know, Dan Schlleman, Joseph Fowler, Eddie Graham, and now Addie Arshambo and and Jack McCaffy. They're not here today, but give them a round of applause. [applause] >> Thank you very much, >> Coach. Well, Coach Diaz, before you take
016off, um, my son turns 26 next month, and I remember you fairly new at that time, offering, uh, training and skill training. Yep. Agility training. Um, you have been just such a part of this community. And when I heard you were retiring, I thought, what a just a huge loss. But we just want to thank you for all that you've done for this team for helping develop women um and supporting women in athletics. So I just wanted to thank you and recognize you as well. [applause] [applause] You never as always. We want to thank um all the people in the seats without the fancy t-shirts on. all the people that drove these student athletes to practices who have stood in sometimes less than enjoyable weather to watch these outdoor fall sports. So, thank you for
017all that you do to support athletics here. [applause] Uh, and finally, if I could go off script real quick here. Um, um, at this time, I'd like to recognize again a very special retirement of of coach Jorge Diaz. [snorts] Um, Coach Diaz has been with us since 2011 as our head coach, and he has uh put together a career record of 225 wins, 42 losses, and 31 ties. In that time, he was state champ in 2012. 2017 state runnerup and as he mentioned earlier the last two seasons back-to-back final fours. He also his teams have also won 12 Northern Lakes League championships. Tonight on behalf of the Parisburg schools and our athletic department, we have a retirement gift to honor a great coach, an incredible ambassador for girls soccer across the entire state of Ohio,
018and most importantly, a great human being. This is a personalized time piece to honor your career's accomplishments and to remind you, once a jacket, always a jacket. [applause] >> All right. Could I introduce Parisburg Junior High Athletic Director, Andrea Mannheim? >> [applause] >> I feel really uncomfortable. I would like you to see my better side. So, I'm just going to slip over here and go from offscript a little bit. So, thank you. Sorry. Um, I am so excited to um be back here again for the third year in a row as athletic director bringing up our cross country team. I do uh want to brag a little bit. I always say that we are the number one feeder school in the state of Ohio program, the cross country boys and girls, coach um Murray and
019coach um Ferguson and their assistant coaches. I mean, there is no other junior high that is out there in the summer during River Runners and doing a winter running program all winter long. So, I just want to brag a little bit about my my two coaches. And I'm also standing up here because unfortunately, Coach um Murray is sick tonight. So, he was not feeling well at school and barely dragged through it. So, I'm going to announce the girls, but I will give the honor um for Coach Ferguson to announce the boys. But while I'm up here, we do have our coach. If assistant coach Heinesman could come on up here. [applause] You might recognize that name because you heard her daughter in the high school. So Reny's in the family. So we're very happy to
020have Coach Heindsman. This was her first year and we're very happy that she's coming back. So for our junior high girls, just like um the high school, if you could line up when you hear your name. Here are the um varsity runners that um went to the state meet and the girls placed third. But I wanted to mention that even though we're only recognizing just a handful of girls, we did have 56 girls on our team and it is a team effort. Everyone pushing them from the beginning to the end is why we are here at the state meet. All of them are very important. So we're really happy that we had 56 girls on our team. All right. So, our varsity rooms, we'll start with uh Joselyn Downey, [applause] Juliet Kvitz, [applause] Emory Hudson,
021Ryland Z, [applause] Avery Mole, Reese Garvey, [applause] Emma Langan, uh Derford, but I just left her. She might be at basketball still. Um, and then I wanted to also mention that Jocelyn and Juliet were in on the podium. So that means top 15 at the state meet. Uh, Joselyn was eighth and Juliet was 13th. I also want to mention that um, Ree Garvey was our o is the only seventh grader. So all these eighth graders are coming for those varsity spots. So just want to so congratulations to the girls. [applause] You can put it back. >> I I'll just follow suit this way, I guess, speaking to everyone. Uh so, thank you to the board for recognizing our junior high athletes. It means a lot uh to be recognized at this level and then also
022for them to be able to see what's possible next at the high school level. So, our junior high boys cross country team had 67 guys on it. And the guys here recognized tonight not only have to compete against that 67 uh for these spots, but then they're competing uh through mid August to mid-occtober um to be recognized as our top scorers on the team. And so um our first three, Grant Sha, Owen Johnson, and Parker Dudesman, all have junior high other athletics tonight, but uh the following guys are here. So if they'd come on up, uh starting with Joey Pacy, who is like Mrs. Monheim said, a seventh grader. Uh so be hopefully back next year. [applause] Gage McMillan, [applause] Parker Magnamie, [applause] and then Nolan Shapila who made the ninth overall. [applause] All right.
023Next up, [clears throat] Next up, we have a great honor tonight to honor our shining star award winner, and that is Broo Schulty. Brooke, could you come to the podium, please, so everybody can see you. [applause] And if I am missing Dawn, there you are. Come on up. All right. Oh goodness. Break it. >> Brooke also requests that we move to the side so that we don't have to look at >> Yeah. >> All right. Here we go. So, it is my honor to speak on behalf of Brook Schulty. Um she is our shining star award recipient and it was my honor um to nominate her for this award. Um because everything that she does, she goes above and beyond but it is never never for her own recognition. It is everything that she does
024she does for the students for Frank Elementary or for the district. So I will read my nomination there maybe. Oh, perfect. I guess I can read it up there. [laughter] Mrs. Schulty is an educator who builds relationships with her students and families that last for years to come. She makes her classroom a place where students enjoy learning. She does many things to serve our school and the Parisburg community. She brought back garden day to Frank Elementary, a day when students, staff, families, and community members help take care of the school grounds, plant plants, pull weeds, trim bushes, and lay mulch or stone. Last year and this year, she coordinated with community partners like Renewed Outdoors, Lowe's, and Jonathan Rocks to secure donations of mulch, stone, and plants for Frank's landscaping. And she and her family
025donated their time and muscle to get everything done and looking beautiful. She coordinates for people to come in and help out, too. But she and her family were there hours before and hours after, donating their own time. She's also the adviser for student council and safety patrol. She helps students gain leadership and responsibility through these groups, and she organizes community service projects for these students as well. Right now, she is running a food drive. She and her groups have also walked in the Parisburg Holiday Parade and she likes to take her groups to the Mudhens game again on her own time. This is on weekends um volunteering her own time. She organized a senior breakfast and clapout where graduating senior students who attended Frank come back for a breakfast. She creates a slideshow of pictures
026of the students from when they were students at Frank to show during the breakfast. Then the seniors tour through the halls um where all of the students and staff stand out there and clap for them. She goes above and beyond for Frank and her students and she is the epitome of Parisburg pride. [applause] the Brooks family. Please join her at the backdrop there so she can get a picture with all of her family. >> [clears throat] >> Thank you so much. All right, our last recognition tonight is a very, very important one. We'd like to recognize the many, many volunteers who dedicate their time, energy, and talents to support our schools and our students, but especially no no time probably more important than recent history than this fall. These individuals exemplified a spirit of community
027engagement and belief in the value of public education. Their advocacy, perseverance, and generosity strengthened our schools and helped ensure that every student has the opportunity to achieve their greatest potential. We also would like to extend our sincere gratitude to the hundreds of volunteers and others who contributed by talking with neighbors and sharing information to help our community stay connected and informed to support our schools. At this time, I'd like to call forward uh the levy committee, Ashley Ballister, Eric Bennington, Tina Bami, Jodie Bernett, Rachel Davis, Alexa Farley, Katie Hatcher, Mike Hollyfield, Kristen Kaiser, Emily Mustman, Kevin Ratin, Ashley Sackett, Chuck and Carol Stocking, and Rachel Zicker. Could you please come to the front? [applause] >> [applause] >> Why don't we get a picture first and then I know that our lovey chairs have a few
028words they'd like to say. Rachel, do you want to as you go by the table, could you stop? Rachel has a small token of our appreciation she'd like to give to you while our lety chairs say a few words. Great to hear. Okay. >> Good evening everyone. Uh my name is Kristen Kaiser. This is Ashley Sacket. We were uh the lovey co-chairs and on behalf of our schools, our staff, and most importantly our students. We want to extend a heartfelt thank you to this community for your support for our school levy. Your vote is more than a yes on a ballot. It is a commitment to our children's future and to the strength of our community. Your support ensures that our students continue to learn in safe, well equipped schools with the programs, teachers, and
029opportunities they deserve. It allows us to keep class sizes manageable, maintain essential services, and continue the work that helps every student thrive. Together we are building a strong foundation for the next generation. And tonight we thank all the hundreds of volunteers who stood with us and invested in our children and community. We truly could not have done this without every single person who placed door hangers, shared testimonials, displayed school signs, hosted coffees, shared positive messages on social media, talked to their neighbors, and made donations to the campaign, and of course, our school board for their continued support. We also want to recognize the incredible high school students for the energy, pride, and leadership they showed by hosting their own rally to raise awareness. Their dedication to supporting Perryburg schools speaks volumes about who they are.
030And because of everyone's support, our schools will continue to thrive. Thank you so much. We're so grateful for everyone. Thank you, everyone. [applause] Thank you. At this time, we will take a fiveminut break. At 6:20, we'll be back at 6:25. Ignore the clock on the wall. I was saying that's not what the clock says. We are called back into session. At this time, we move into public comment time. I um if there's no objections, I would like to move up 18.1 public comment topics other than agenda items as we often do and merge it with 5.1 to allow Mr. Kevin Rantan to come up and speak. Um, just state your name and your address, please. >> Okay. Uh, my name my [clears throat] name is Kevin Rantin and I live at 925 Locust Street in
031Parisburg. Um, I've been wanting to come to the board meeting to say this since last school year, but I just never had a chance and I was invited by Dr. Katie, which is great. Um, but my hopefully I'll just try to say this for just a minute. Hopefully I could cry when I say it because it is difficult sometimes to think about. Uh but my my wife had a stroke two days before Christmas last year and um my daughter had only been going to Toth for a year. She came from a private school and started going to to in the third grade. Halfway through well then halfway through fourth grade my wife had the stroke and um the toth to was just beyond incredible. Um, I think that her my daughter's teachers and the guidance
032counselor and the principal, they all kind of whether it was virtually met or in person, I'm not sure, but they they seem to have appointed her third grade teacher, Adrienne Oburst, to be our point of contact and she was there for us constantly. And I was just looking back at my text messages and she reached reached out to me like every other day for the first several weeks cuz my my daughter my wife was in the hospital for a couple months. And um and at one point she she said, "Hey, I just I just want to see how you guys are doing." And I said, "Well, um could you give me a call?" She said, "Absolutely." And then I just saw that she texted me and uh 2 hours later she said, "I'm going to
033be there in 15 minutes." And she dropped off a bunch of gift cards and food and all kinds of stuff like that. So, um, but I just want to mention the people that really helped us out were Morgan Casey. I guess she's the social worker and then and she was in charge of the rocks group that my daughter was in. And then of course Adrienne Oburst, her third grade teacher. And then Jason Kovville, the guidance counselor. And then Jessica Molina, the principal, and um, Mrs. Whit, her fourth grade teacher, and also Mrs. Graychek. And then even right down to Mrs. W. Julie, uh, the lunch monitor. She I I knew her from a long time ago, but she would drive by my house and stop and ask how things were going. So, it's everyone couldn't
034have been more supportive. Really appreciate it. You know, some people think of public schools as just public schools taking the taxpayers dollars, what not, or maybe they don't care about the kids as much because there's public school teachers, private or better. But I spent most of my life in private school and I had my daughter in private school. But Parisburg could not be better. Just couldn't be better. and she just absolutely loves it and now she's a whole prairie. It's just the best thing ever for her. So, I really appreciate it. >> Thanks, Kevin. >> Kevin, thanks for coming. [applause] >> This time we'll turn it over to Dr. Anstead for the superintendence report. All right. Goodness. All right. It's a party going on out there. I will remind the few people that are left
035in the room of our mission and vision. Ensuring that all students achieve their greatest potential and our vision where passion drives exemplary education. We're preparing future ready jackets as 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. Did that one on tonight's agenda. Uh just later, I just want to call your attention to the special education model policies and procedures. That's just a it's a consent agenda item that is an annual adoption required by all educational agencies. I think it went through committee committee members. Um if you have anything
036to say about that adoption, just let us know. though it is a state requirement, but I wanted to call our attention to it. I'm going to spend just a few minutes this evening talking about some legislation that is sitting on the governor's desk right now. So, even before that, I want to spend a couple minutes just talking about Ohio public school funding. We've I feel like we feel like we're on the other side of this, but we're never on the other side of this right now. Uh, our inflationadjusted state funding for public schools is now at its lowest point since 1997. Since universalizing ed choice in 2019, state investment in public schools has dropped by 16%. Nearly every new state dollar since 1997 has gone to charter or private school tuition subsidies. And as a
037result, it's been essentially flat funding for public schools for the last 28 years. When did Ohio fund schools adequately, you might ask? So, public school students received the most state aid in 2003 2004. Compared to last year, the state provided $3.2 billion dollar more in that 2003 2004 school year. Every year from 2001 to 2008 provided more state funding to public schools than today's record totals. We hear often them talk about the record total investment in education. Even during the Great Recession, Ohio funded public schools more than it does today. Ohio's national education ranking in that time has fallen from number five in 2010 to 20th in 2021. And Ohioans now pay 5.1 billion more in property taxes than they did in 2010. And this is about 43% more than you would you would expect
038if it were just inflationary. Local taxpayers, as we talked a lot during the election cycle, are forced to fill the gaps caused by vouchers and charter expansion. So, these four bills are sitting on the governor's desk. They've gone through the house with some revisions in the Senate and are now waiting for the governor's approval. The first is House Bill 129. The core of this bill, including emergency and substitute levies in it is a district 20 mil floor calculation remains intact. So, there was a risk there um as it made its way through the Senate that there would be changes. The Senate adopted several changes that are favorable to schools and were aligned to our advocacy requests and those included allowing existing emergency levies to be renewed as a fixed sum levy more than once. In
039the House version, we would only have been able to have one renewal. I think over the years, you know, one of the school things that schools have been accustomed to doing is setting up renewal levies. And this is this is something that will be new for us to have to go back and not be able to call these renewals in the future. It also allowed uh substitute existing substitute levies to be renewed as fixed sum. So they've kind of done some namechanging here which can be further renewed and the house was not going to let those be renewed at all. Interesting. the talk in Columbus so often is that people don't know what they're voting for, but they've actually put language in here that says even if you vote for it, we can decide down
040in Columbus that you didn't really mean it, that we know better or your county commission knows better. So, the Senate also prohibited the combination of multiple existing emergency levies into a single renewal levy. Emergency and substitute levbies will count towards a district's floor calculation, which is also new when any territory of the district is in a county going through a reappraisal. Mr. Durier, when will we be going through reappraisal? >> Next year. So, it will change for us faster than it does for other districts. The second bill is House Bill 186, which was an inflationary cap on 20 mil floor districts. There are so few places where our funding grows with in with uh with new housing and here is one of the places is in that 20 mil floor. So the Senate did keep
041intact the bill's retroactivity provisions. At one point this bill was going to go back and claw back money that had already been paid. But the Senate kept the provision in that the House introduced, which is a $465 million reimbursement that ensures that at least we'll get the current tax year revenue 2024 until the next reappraisal or update, which is just next year. The Senate also modified the property tax rollbacks in a revenue neutral manner for both the state and school districts, but with increased savings for owner occupied properties. There's a big celebration in Columbus over this. Like, we really helped the homeowner and we really helped them. If you're owner occupied, the Senate will gradually increase the 2 and a half% owner occupied credit until it reaches 15.38% in 2029 and will fa fully phase
042out the 10% non-b businessiness roll back. And then House Bill 309, aside from just one major exception, the Senate largely maintained the House's provision which will allow county budget commissions to reduce levies for school districts and other taxing jurisdictions. The key change that was made by the Senate was shortening the House's five-year prohibition prohibition on reducing newly approved levies to just one year. So literally after one year they can come back and say we don't think you really meant to pass that. We know better. We're going to change that. At least in the House version it was five years. Now it is one year in the one sitting on the governor's desk. This does go against the governor's tax committee uh property tax committee and it might be the one that we have a small
043chance potentially in getting some action from the governor on. And then la lastly, House Bill 335. The Senate made minor modifications to the bill. It caps inside millillage to the cumulative inflationary rate of the three-year appraisal cycle. The Senate removed two House added provisions that would have allowed a reduction of inside millillage to accompany a school district or municipal income tax levy and required a county get county budget commission approval for an increase to inside millage rate that was reduced pursuant to the sales tax increase authorized under existing law. I know that's a lot of language. It's so many words. So, we're waiting on the governor. It does sit there. Uh it's been sitting there for a couple of days now. They did they passed this in the middle of the night, 1:30 I think
044in the morning on Wednesday. That might have been Thursday by the time it was uh passed. Uh but we're waiting on the governor to see if he signs these into law. In summary, these bills reduce or cap local property tax growth and assessed values. They further weaken the district's ability to raise needed local revenue. And combined with our stagnant state funding, which we've seen has been very flat for many years, Parisburg and all Ohio public schools face a worsening financial outlook. >> One of the crazy things on this is they're capping the growth, right? Valuations can go up, whatever, and we can't grow revenue off those valuation increases, but those valuation increases count towards our wealth calculation. >> Oh, so we get danger. >> So, we lose on the local end. we're going to lose
045at the state end too because we're going to continue to look wealthier, but it's not going to be acknowledged with the changes in the formula. >> Whoa. >> And um and I'll talk a little bit in my report. Um we started doing some modeling on this. It's very very complicated, but um as you can imagine, it's not positive. So, >> so I wanted to just bring up uh something that's going on in our community, which is great. During the levy campaign, I had a lot of opportunity to talk to many, many community members, which was great. Got to know a lot of people really well. And throughout one of um throughout many of those talks, but in a couple of different instances, I had a few people come up to me that were interested in
046finding ways to help us to because honestly, the state Randy was there a few weeks ago. Um they don't want to hear testimony. Often they'll pass these bills without any testimony at all. they'll just say, "We're going to move it right through. We're not interested in what Ohioans have to say. We're just going to move this bill right through. We've decided what's best for Ohio." And that's why electing the appropriate people is really important right now. Uh so really we believe I believe as a as your current leader that it's very important that we engage somebody besides the superintendent, the treasurer, board members, but that we start to engage I don't want to say the common voter, but people that don't have the skin in the game that they feel that we do because I
047think when that starts to happen, that's when we'll start to see the needle move. And we do have, I would say, kind of a group of nerdy people here in Parisburg that are very interested in getting involved in this. So, this is a team of interested citizens. Um, they want to find a way to be a unified voice from Parisburg. So, often what happens in Columbus is Northwest Ohio overall is left out of a lot of the conversations, but Parisburg for sure. So this is a grassroots movement of citizens who want to answer want an answer to fair school funding that isn't dependent completely on local taxpayers. So their four goals are to influence policy that impacts school funding, to engage local elected officials, to advocate for action like recruiting commercial business, to serve as
048an impartial third-party voice to raise awareness on the complex issues surrounding school funding, including pending legislative updates, and then partnering with community members from other local school districts and advocacy groups, as well as local business to provide a unified voice in Columbus. that isn't necessarily coming from this table, but it's in addition to what's coming from this table. And I'm really excited about that because I think that that is the key to getting the attention of lawmakers. I think it's going to have to come from somebody besides superintendents, treasurers, and board members. So, I'm really excited about that. >> Yeah. And what's really interesting is talking with our mayor elect and council people elect is that when they were going doortodoor, they heard the number one issue was school funding. And of course their question
049is what do they do about it? And I said you can do a lot because mayor of Parisburg caring about school funding, council members of Parisburg caring about school funding, township trustees caring about school funding will get the attention of our state lawmakers more than you know Dr. Anstead or or me. So um it's pretty exciting. So I think this is going to be a very exciting step. we if we can get a group that's engaged um we can step back provide them the information they need to be successful and then let them rip. >> I think so. I'm excited about this group. Yeah, there's definitely there's definitely a sense in the community that more collaboration is needed across um whether it's you know the city, the township government with us with um I think
050again business leaders with other um kind of stakeholders. So, I'm excited that some of this conversation is going past this table. Um, and I think it'll be a question of how we can best engage and inform people about what's going on that we know about. before we skip because there is just there is a lot of new information to me here I think especially about um you know the the the initial inflation adjusted and how I mean I think one of the things we've been talking about is is that local taxpayers are being forced to fill the gaps caused by um really the voucher and charter school uh expansion and to see actual data on that is is kind of alarming. It's even worse, I think, than I realized. Um, and again, to take away
051local control after and to and to give that to a board of people that can decide whether or not our levy is legit or not is is incredibly problematic to me. Um, I also I'll just say that I um it's disappointing and we've read this in plenty of news articles that I I understand the the desire to help the local taxpayer because we are all one of those local tax people uh payers, but um none of this addresses the core issue of how the state is choosing to spend its funds and how they're choosing to support or not and I'll emphasize the not public education. So, this is really helpful information. I I do have a question. I just need some clarification on slide n that last statement. Um, I guess I need some interpretation
052of that. The Senate gradually increases from 2 and a.5% owner occupied credit until it reaches 15.38 in 2029 and phases out the 10% non-b businessiness roll back credit uh by 29. I don't know, Mr. Joe, if that's something you were going to address in your finances, but could we unpack that a little bit more? >> Well, it's it's supposed to be revenue neutral. It should not impact us. First of all, it doesn't apply. It's like our new levy. It doesn't apply to it because they're it's not subject to those discounts. Homestead discount, but not the others. What's what's really going to happen with this is by moving that is the absentee homeowner, the second, third house, the corporate homeowners, the finance, you know, these these equity companies who are buying up properties in these major
053cities. Guess what? They don't get the discounts. Okay? >> You have to live in your home to get the discount for for so the so us who live in our homes, we're paying taxes of it will see that benefit increase over time. So from a from a revenue standpoint, it's neutral, but it shifts to really the person who lives in their in their primary residence. >> Okay. Which is good. And I do think that did actually align with what came out of the governor's committee. So that's it. >> Okay. It did. >> It's helpful. Thank you. >> Other questions about that? Well, we'll certainly keep filling the gap of knowledge here on this as we start to get better models. Right now, we've got a model, but it's it's very early. So, and like I
054said, the governor hasn't signed them yet, but they've made their way through the House and Senate, and we anticipate a signature soon. So, I do want to celebrate tonight that Parisburg schools has earned district and statewide PBIS recognitions. Uh, all seven district schools have earned the bronze award for PBIS, which is positive behavior interventions and supports from the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce and the Ohio PBIS network. Uh, it honor the statewide recognition honors K12 schools. This doesn't always happen districtwide. Often a couple of schools will get picked off. Um, but for the entire district, it really shows how well we're aligning on this. And I think you know part of our jacket way our kids can articulate it all of those things. So I think that that's that's a really great honor. >>
055Maybe my memor is failing me but I don't know that all the schools did last year. So there's a nice improvement here. >> It's it really is. It's a great it's great recognition. Great recognition. We'll keep celebrating that. How about this guy? Uh Woodland Elementary has this great activity on Mondays called Marvelous Monday. and students sign up and they get to bring this encouraging sign to greet students as they arrive for a new week. I really would like to bring them to central office. I think it would be great to have kids standing outside, right, holding signs. I love that idea. So, they hang them all around the school when they're done. And it is really something to see when you walk through Woodland to see all these great signs. So, um thanks to Kelsey
056Gulliam, uh who's an intervention specialist. She organizes all of this and I know that the Woodland community really looks forward to it. These are our PHS thespians uh who excelled at statewide theater expo. Uh this is Annabelle Books book. Oh my goodness. Booko um Amelia Maserella and Jordan Nahas. Uh all received superior ratings and were selected as members of the all Ohio cast of Ragtime. So congratulations to them. I know. Yay. Yay them. Always kids always tough for kids. Uh, a safari book tasting happened in first grade. You can see how much fun these little safari goers were having with their books. This just happened today, actually. Um, our boys basketball team uh went out and visited elementary schools around the area. Um, big hats off to James Mapus who drove the team from place
057to place to place today. Um, so if you're wondering where James was, he was driving around and you can see what heroes these guys are. Uh if you were at uh Midnight Madness on Friday, it w oh my gosh, it was so great just to see all the student athletes or many I shouldn't say all because they weren't all there, but many many many of the littlest to the biggest student athletes celebrated in the district. Um handstand competition was fierce, [laughter] very fierce. Very hard to bre to beat the gymnasts, but we almost had someone do it. But in the end, the gymnast won. So, all right. Uh PHS signing day was another great moment. I just loved uh watching this. This was so great. Happened early in the morning last week. Um and you
058can see some of the same athletes that we met tonight are on this team of 13 student athletes who committed to collegiate athlet athletics in their future. I thought it was interesting that the Beckans who had to change shirts between their two girls. Both girls went to a school that has green as a color and I thought that was really smart. At least you have, you know, one color that is so Marshall and Eastern both there. There were veteran civ celebrations all over the place. It was so great to watch uh our students learn about and celebrate our veterans who we honored for their service. And then uh this is just a reminder that we're still doing Facebook lives. The next one is on Friday, December 12th. Uh you can certainly submit your questions. And
059also on Saturday, December 13th from 9:30 to 11:00 at Weey Public Library, board members Chris Anderson and Sue Larmer will be there to answer all of your questions. >> They're very excited about this. I'm going to come. Very. Yes, [laughter] I have some questions as well. Many questions. >> Many questions. And then we'd also like you to save the date. Uh Perryburg schools will be hosting an open house on Monday, December 15th, our next board meeting from 4:30 to 5:30. So, right before the board meeting at the Commodore building where we will invite faculty, staff, and community members to join us, it will be a special opportunity to celebrate and show our gratitude to outgoing board members Eric Bennington and Chris Anderson whose terms expire on December 31st, 2025. So, I hope you will, everyone
060listening will join us to celebrate these two fine men. >> I think my wife's coming, so people may actually show up to see. >> Okay. Well, we'll want to see her. We will. We will. All right, that's my report. Thank you. >> Okay, >> any other questions or >> um just a quick question as far as this um these wonderful people who are willing to go out and advocate um for the funding and for Parisburg? Um ha has anything formal been created for that? Do they understand that they're not just advocating for Parisburg? They'd be advocating for all the other 610 school districts, too. >> These are pretty politically savvy people. I think they know exactly what they're doing. We have our first meeting maybe next week. I feel like it's on my calendar for
061next week. I have not quite probably not next week. It might be the is it week or week after next. We're going to meet for the first time. We want to hear their ideas. uh this is something that will function outside the school board, outside us. Uh but I think that's that's a good thing. I and we're certainly here to support them with any data that they need or help with, you know, what's in the what's in the hopper for legislation. But this is a pretty just the first couple people in the email pretty politically savvy people that we would all be very familiar with uh that really want to get involved and also have busy jobs in addition to this but really want to be involved. And I I am really grateful for it
062because I do believe with all of my heart that it has to come from someplace besides this just just this table. And it's hard when you're raising a family. You're busy. You don't have time. I I've talked to so many people over the last few weeks that maybe you're from out of state that don't understanding school that don't understand school funding in Ohio and you please just explain school funding to me and just like tell me like I'm a kindergartener and I was like no but it takes it takes a PhD. It's really complicated. Uh so I'm grateful for the people that are willing to dive in up to their elbows and really learn enough to be able to advocate intelligently and I think I think our politicians will listen to voters. I do. I
063do if enough I always had I I always go back to um when Randy Gardner was serving us uh in Columbus and continues to serve us honestly. But when he was serving us in Columbus, he would always say, "It only takes a few phone calls. If my phone rings on the same issue three, four, five, six times, he says, "It doesn't take 600. It only takes six because I feel like if six people pick up the phone to call me, something's going on. I better pay attention. I want to, you know, and he was somebody that was always willing to meet with constituents, always willing to sit across from us. But I I've always remembered that that it doesn't take much to get their attention because it feels like a movement when 10 people call.
064So that I I I think this will be very helpful to us. I'm excited. >> Extraordinary. Thank goodness. >> Grateful for this community. >> Thank you, Dr. Anstat. We turn to Mr. Jurer for the treasures report. You just need to go to my >> and open up the my um the PowerPoint administrative content >> right now. Sorry. No, no pressure. Everyone's watching. >> I know, right? >> Or hit the from the hit from the start. Keep going. >> And did you put my little my It was sitting on your pad. Yeah. >> Okay. I'll get her I'll get her trained. Took me a while to get Tom trained. So, train, I'll be gone. So, >> all right. Well, thanks everyone. Um, a little bit longer report tonight, but I think it uh it fits well
065into Dr. Nanstead's um report. Let me start with um and Miss Phillips and Heywood, welcome. Just a reminder, in the fi the actual financial report that you approve, there's a bunch of reports and this is that list. I just want to remind you it's there. I don't go through this. You're welcome. Um, but I just want to make remind you it's there and if there's things in there that you want to discuss, please don't, you know, feel free to bring it up. I'm assuming that you're looking at it and, you know, these are things that I believe as a chief financial officer, my board members should know or not know, but have access to it. You know, exactly how we're spending our money. you know, donations are coming from all those kinds of things as
066well as the investment information. Obviously, the finance committee plays a little bit bigger role, but you all have a responsibility to understand these. So, they're there. Um, if if you ever want walk through them, [snorts] maybe I should, you know, once a month or take one report a month and go through it. But, um, just want to remind you about that. Show this every month. This is our end of month cash balance chart. Um we are trending as we always do. We hit our peak there in late summer and we'll trend down now until January, February. And this again and this reminder, this is why we have to have that cash balance at the end of June. And we can't operate, you know, from paycheck to paycheck. It just doesn't it's not going to work.
067A little more granular look. This is just this fiscal year. The light green is our cash balance. The red is our revenue and the dark green is our expense. So this again, our expenses don't vary that much from from month to month. Couple hundred,000 maybe. You know, we have we pay out supplementals, that kind of thing, but the revenue obviously varies quite a bit. And that's why we we want to maintain a cash balance. So let me let's talk where we are. So what I want to get into now is where we are general fund. Now this we have not updated this with our with the election results yet. So just I will update this a little once because I can actually put the um projected revenue in top line now and I will I
068will going forward. So we are at 139 true cash days right now. Last year at this time we were 152. Our revenue is down 14% year-over-year and our expenses are down 2%. Look at some of the key. So on real estate taxes, we're down 26% but obviously the election levy will cut that gap um which is obviously we're all excited about. So but that we'll get that updated you know as we go forward. We'll obviously we'll see the first collections of that in February or so on income tax. Income taxes to me is kind of that indicator of how well we're doing economically. Um and our income tax is up 5.1% year-over-year. Um it it's a little bit lower trend than we've seen, but still trending trending well. Unrestricted state aid 12.8%. that this is
069a a big jump year and this is the reflection if in October we got the update from the the state budget new money's coming in and the the driver for us is our enrollment increase over the last five years and our being a five-star district that's where that's showing up in this year that's why we see that increase in year-over-year on the expense side you see salaries are down8% % and benefits are just up slightly. That's a reflection obviously of the reductions that we made this year, right? With some of those reductions we saw last year, particularly on the custodial side, but this is the remainder pime primarily in the certificated staff that you know and [snorts] the gifted programs, that kind of thing. Again, purchase services and supplies are purchase services are, you know,
070pretty well even year-over-year and supplies are down um spending wise. I I think that trend is going to continue. So again, supplies is one of those areas where it's not a huge percentage of the budget, but it's one of those areas we have a little bit of control, right? We can count paper clips, we can count copies, and we are I mean, literally our copier um counting our images on our copers is saving us upwardware $120,000 a year. Now, on a $77 million budget, it's hard to see, but obviously those things are important. So, so again, we're we're tracking well year um year-over-year. And I'm going to get to step back and look at the big picture at the end on this with this. So, one of the things um I wanted to do is
071kind of put some perspective on our spending and looking back 10 years. Why did I pick 10 years? It's a round number, you know, go back to where you where you want to go back to. But I went back to 2015 and said, "What's our spending look like actual compared to last year?" And then we'll throw in what this year's budgets look like. So it's not So, so if you look at revenue back in 2015 school year, um 68% locally funded, 29% state. Okay. Last year we at 72% local, 23% state. And the other place that you saw was increase that 5% that's earning there interest earnings, but it's also fees, right? So you could almost add part of that 5% into local funding because we're charging our parents more for things. >> You know,
072the split, >> what's that? >> How much of that is interest versus how much >> I'd have to figure it out. It's interest. So, so th let me just I don't So, this is this year's budget. You'll see 71% and 25%. So, you see that increase in state budget. Thank you very much. That's a result of the enrollment and the um performance. So, as a percentage, we did see a little bit improvement this year state funding wise. And of course, obviously, our revenue was down a little bit because of, you know, the levy failure last November. So, how are we spending our money? Now this is hard to read all these cate but I I did it by function. So we we we can break down expenses by object like purchase services, salaries, benefits or
073by function. What do they do? So if you look at this in 2015 versus 2025 in 2015 53% of our dollars went to classroom instruction. Another 12% went to special education. 7% went to pupil support. Those are indirect things like school psychologist um um nurses aids those kinds of things and then 7% for building administration. So back in 2015 79% of our expenses I would go would say go to direct student interaction they're going these positions are interacting directly with our students and if you add in transportation it goes up in you know well into 80 over 80%. So last year 48% in direct instructional 15% special education 9% in pupil support and building administration 8%. So at 80% well but you can see the shift there right from from classroom instruction to special education
074and pupil support and and the and the enrollment numbers explain it very well. So if you look at fun total funded students in 2015, we were at 46 a little over 4,600 students and these are these are funded students. Okay? So I'm comparing apples to apples here. Not not necessarily students and seeds. In 2012, we were up to 5,300. So we had 14% increase, but look at our special education students. It's gone up 47% over that 10 year gone. And our economically disadvantage has gone up 37%. That's why you see the shift as a percentage of special education and pupil support. I think that makes it makes complete sense. I think, you know, we're still putting dollars into the students, but we're we're dealing with different needs at this point. Well, what about this year?
075So, again, 49% um budget for classroom inspection in instruction, 14% special education, 9% student support, 8% building administration. So we're still, you know, at 80%. So again, 80 plus percent when you add in transportation, part of our IT staff, all they do is student student support. So we're well over 85 86% of our expenses are going directly to either get get students to school, support their education, or teach them. So any questions on that? Hopefully that that helps with that. Okay, good. pretty significant graphs. what >> pretty significant graphs I think. >> Yeah. You know, people talk about um well, even like topheavy or other expenses. If you look at the fiscal office, for example, it's 2% of our expenses. Half of that expense is our fees we pay the the county for um collecting
076our taxes, right? So, you you need to look into these numbers a little bit more. Transportation's been steady at 4%. maintenance is 8 to 9% and you could argue the custodial services are just as critical, you know, be able to have our buildings open as anything else. So, you're at 90% of our dollars going directly to our to our students. >> What was the total revenue for the two periods? >> I'd have to I don't know right off hand. I have to look. I'm I'm thinking I don't remember. you know, it's obviously um over 70 million in 200, but I can't remember 20. I was thinking somewhere around 50 million, but I don't remember exactly what that number is. >> Trying to think 10 years ago was the question. Yeah, 55 seems to be >>
077Yeah, it seems something like that if I remember right. >> What it was. So, yeah. >> Okay. So, stepping back big picture. So, the levy pass we're really happy. This was the forecast as you back in August and I remind you a couple. The main line here, look at line 60. It showed our deficit spending over the next five years. Big number, 6 million, 9 million, almost, you know, over 13 and a.5 million, almost 20 million 22. And then our cash balance essentially, we'd be out of money in fiscal year 28. So, two years from now, we'd we we'd be um would have been out of money without the levy passing. And here we are right now. So this is where we look at so the you know board members you've got a we got
078a couple years to be able to work on this now. You know obviously when we get out to fiscal year 30 you're not out of the woods you but we we have some time to spend to look at this. Now let me show you what it looks like. So this is the same data except the levy now is in the upper instead of below the line it's above the line. So you can see spending wise we're gonna we're slightly negative this year and we have a good chance with our controls in place to actually come in at you know zero or break even this year. >> So you're you're showing about a $400,000 improvement versus the 17, right? >> Yeah. >> Because you're at 27 point or 25.7 million and you're at 26 261 now.
079So that's good. So, and but you see the outer years, we still have we're potentially in deficit spending, but we'll have a cash balance to deal with it, right? And that's the main thing I can tell you was interesting. Um, we had finance committee Thursday night, you know, two days after the election. That evening, I got an email from the state said, "Hey, we need your plan because you're in deficit spending in two years. You're out of money." Now, we we don't have to do anything because we're not because we have the levy passed. But I talked to other treasurers and they have by the end of December, they've got to get their plans into the state. Now, we have a we had a plan, right? We already had a plan that the board had
080approved. Now, the difference is with that document with the state, we can't say we're going to reduce three reading teachers. We got we got to re we're going to reduce Joe and Sue and Laura. We have to put you actually have to put the names in those plans. Yeah. Which is kind of disheartening. So the the question then now is with these four real estate bills, what does it look like with these numbers? We don't know. >> We have some ideas, but we don't know. The the the LSC's simulation, which I think is completely incorrect. I don't know where their assumptions are coming from. their numbers don't match any numbers that I have ever seen would say that starting in fiscal year 28 we would lose 3.6 million and we lose another 3.6 million in
081fiscal year 29 so 7.2 two that puts us obviously negative in fiscal year 2030. I don't think it's correct. I working on my own simulations today. Again, I'm not I'm not ready to put this up there and say this is it, but we're still at least $3 million less out to 2030. So, instead [snorts] of 5.6, we're looking at two million $2.5 million in that last in that last year. starting in fiscal year 28, we'll start seeing that impact. But again, we we don't know because some of the language is unclear. There's some confounding things, but we're going to keep working on I'm hoping by the December finance committee, I will have a clearer picture for finance and then for the board for next month on those impacts. My feeling, and it's a feeling at
082this point, we're good for the next two fiscal years after this one. 29 we should be okay but 30 so we got work to do and and and it's already there. I mean I can tell you you know it's like all the retirements that we have coming up those aren't built in yet into our numbers and you know and and and Mr. Christie has done a good job of asking the questions. I've been asking the questions. Do we need to fill these positions? Right. We and Mr. Miss Price and Mr. and Christy are looking at enrollment numbers and we're evaluating this stuff. So, we're not taking anything for granted. There's no there's no plans to add staff, but we're also [snorts] going to make sure, you know, if we don't need to replace staff, we
083won't. So, and one other item, it's not here, I just found out today. Um, our audit is essentially done except they're waiting for they can't do our single audit. We get enough state, we get enough federal grants they have to do what's called a single audit. They have to audit 40% of our um grant funds, which is our which is our IDEIDA funds, but they haven't got any guidance on how to do that yet. And there's a couple other things that are holding up. So, our auditors are sitting there sitting on their hands waiting for guidance on how to finish up the audit. So, normally we're done by before end of December and maybe end of January before our audit is 100% done. But every other school district in Ohio is in the same position.
084So that's all I have. Any questions? >> All right. >> Thank you. Um, we need to approve the financial report of October 2025. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Anderson, Miss Mankey, Mr. Jur, roll call, please. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Miss Mankey, >> yes. Miss Lammer, >> yes. >> Mr. Bennington, >> yes. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. And then we move to 7.3. Um, finance committee. Any other information from our finance committee folks? >> Uh, no. Just pulled the minutes and that's what we talked about. >> He kind of takes your thunder, doesn't he? >> Yeah. The system works. >> Mr. Bennington's, you know, kind of being modest here, but they, you know, like the adding the the this year's budget to that presentation was obviously direct feedback from finance. So,
085they've they've heard it and we're kind of repeating it here, but it's it's a it's a great sounding board. I get, you know, great direction from. So, I I do I do appreciate the kind of the the trial run before I come to prime time. So, >> all right, we'll move into um eight for community engagement. Uh we met back on the 11th on Veterans Day. Uh you'll see in our minutes, one of the things that we wanted to bring to the board was a idea that we're kind of um floating right now of moving the work session from Wednesday, the first Wednesday of the month at 7 a.m. Um to move that to Tuesday, the first Tuesday of the month at our regular board time of 5:45. Um the goals of that are to
086um one reflect a more sane start time which I think all of us have discussed but I think even more so was we're very aware that when people do come with public comment that we're not we it's not appropriate for us to engage that during this meeting. This is a meeting of the board. But the idea of that work session was would be to continue to try to limit the agenda to an hour, maybe an hour and a quarter on on months that we really need it. And that then two members, just like we're doing the Saturdays at the library, that that two members could sign up to be willing to stay for up to 30 minutes after the board meeting to discuss with whatever community members wanted to be there. So kind of an
087open um drop in well not drop in but hopefully people who have commented at the meeting then could stay and and engage in conversation or people who wanted to come to the meeting. So that was a um I think that was really the the driving force behind it was to try to figure out how to create some time linked to our board meeting. So, we wanted to bring that idea from our committee to the board for discussion. >> Thoughts? I've been wanting this for a long time. [laughter] It does, but it it was one of the arguments for moving it because at 7 a.m. most people are who are up and awake are busy getting to work or hurting cats trying to get them to the bus. Um, a board meeting is not on their
088priority list. Um, so it it to me it makes sense. I see other boards throughout the state that have them in the evenings, same times, 4:'lock, all those different things. I guess it depends on their board and their community, but um I didn't really know a lot of I haven't seen a lot of other boards that have it, you know, that that early. I mean, I just I mean, if it's okay with with our admin who have to take a day that's already long enough for them and make it a little longer twice a month. Um, I think it would provide more opportunity for the community to come, but then they'll say it's dinner time, and I get that, but it's dinner time now. So, oh, we have people. So, um, no, I'm I'm I'm
089I think the logic for moving it, besides being selfish, I think the logic for moving it makes sense. >> I think this will be better for administrators because a lot of times the beginning of the day when there's chaos out there coming into the schools, it's hard for them to get away, especially, I mean, because it's if something's going to happen, it's usually in the morning. So this way this, you know, there's there's not any student focus at that time of night. They can come in here and give their 100% that they need to for any questions that we have or anything that they're proposing to us. And I think um this is more for the public who might listen to this later, but the these are normally work sessions are limited to kind of
090one main agenda item. it's usually educational or something that we need to grapple with. And so I like the idea that we also have a more contained um meeting that we can invite the public to and and to dig into a issue as we do during those meetings and then also to be able to stick around and talk about it afterwards. Um, if you have additional thoughts, um, we do have another community engagement meeting this month and then of course those of you who I noticed that the two members who won't be here next year haven't commented. Um, >> I was going to say [laughter] if I was to come to a work session in 2026, I'd be more inclined to come in the evening than the morning. >> Does that help? >> Yeah. There
091we go. >> There you go. >> And I'm sure Mr. Bennington will be coming to all of our >> meetings if I was going to. Well, and I will say I think there's a historical I I vaguely remember when work sessions were at 8 a.m. and then they moved to 7:30 a.m. to fit with work schedules and now we're at 7 a.m. to fit with work schedules. And so I just don't it seems like trying to fit with work schedules. I recognize the extra burden to our administrators, but um I I don't I I'm fearing the day that we have to go to 6:30 for work schedules. I not sure I'll be functional. I'll be here at 5. >> Okay. You and R you and Mr. Drewer can come hang out nice and early. >>
092There you go. All right. Um our other notes are there. Um I don't know, Miss Mikey, anything that you wanted to lift up from those? aside from what we're doing to um address issues moving forward with the community, I think, you know, that plan on moving forward is is the thing that we have to look forward to um in the next year because we seem to have started with a good thing and to keep up with it and tune into what the public really wants. And I think it's important to note as part of this that certainly with the search process which we'll be talking about in a couple there's going to be a lot of um there'll be a lot of opportunities for the community to get engaged in that to hear about it.
093Um and so I I think that'll be partly the community engagement piece too for the first two months at least of the new year. >> All right. Student achievement, Mr. Bennington. >> Yeah, thank you. Uh, student achievement met on November 4th, which I think was at that was election day, wasn't it? Um, oh, a pretty full agenda that that's in the uh um board doc's information here. U got a peek at the not a peak, but got the a look at the state report card deep dive second session that occurred on October 29th, a few days there earlier than when we had met. And the focus of that was on college the college career workforce and military readiness component of the uh state report card. And just there's also the presentation is also linked in
094through the materials here. I'll just pull out a couple couple nice highlights from there. You know, Parisburg continues over the years uh even though it wasn't always called this but continues to trend positively in this area. You know, it has um rates high on academic readiness, career readiness, uh college credit attainment as well as CTE attainment. uh leads when you take a look at what our similar schools are, you know, head and shoulders above what our similar schools are in that metric. So, a lot again to to celebrate and Mr. Schwarz Miller is probably always a little bit harder on himself than what is what is necessary. Still looking at you focused on what areas still need improvement, but you know, overall obviously strong results. um talked about uh uh data review. The committee and
095the administration continue to talk about what is the appropriate uh amount of data, how to communicate, what is going to resonate with the public with the data that that is available. You know, specifically, we we talked about the uh you know, the Ohio standard tests uh at HPI, the Ohio State test results at Perry's Junior High and reviewing academic performance and benchmarking against kind of behavioral um trends. uh at the high school. And then the final thing that was discussed uh was was the adoption of AI. Talked about got a preliminary look at the plan that the administration was was going to roll out. I got a sense some of that some of that plan has moved forward. Some has probably been sidelined a little bit as as will happen when you get into the
096the detail of these discussions. Um just an editorial comment. I've been involved in AI adoptions to some extent where I'm at. I just I found the work that was done by the administration, the thought that was put into it was really really well done. I think at one point I probably going to steal some of the materials for my company. >> It's a joke. No, it's it's really it's really good. So yeah. Um unless I missed anything else of imports, that's that's my report. >> Okay. Um in 10.1 other committees, um start in the middle. Parisburg Schools Foundation. >> Yeah. So, um, they had a big big big time, right? They approved $54,000 worth of grants at the last meeting. Unfortunately, I wasn't there. I was stuck in Boston due to the uh travel snafu,
097but most of it related to the arts, but 54,000. A lot of new band instruments, a lot of new drum instruments coming in for the school. So, that's great. >> Thank you. >> The development. Yeah, actually that's a good segue. So, development did meet. I believe it was on October 27th um virtual meeting because everybody was kind of scattered about that day, but we got a numbers update and and um I I didn't take great notes to tell you exactly what those numbers are, but you know, they are on track keeping pace with the previous year, which is something that's commendable because with the last uh with the um cuts that occurred back in 2024, particularly to that department, it is commendable that that staff is still managing to keep up and um be able
098to do the work that they're doing to raise raise funs. to help support uh Parisburg schools. Kind of along those lines, starting to think about and have discussions. I remember being orchestra booster treasure years ago where this conversation started and it's still going on about how can the how can uh Mr. Abky's group, you know, continue to support the district organizations, continue to align their missions with the mission of the overall district and provide more administrative and and kind of reporting support to get the most out of uh out of the fundraising efforts uh throughout the district. And then not a not a you know still starting I'll call these opening conversations on how can the foundation or the development group help support some of these programs that we have lost. What is possible? I'm
099not going to touch on it too much because I don't at the risk of making promises that probably nobody's ready to make yet but those conversations are starting. >> Oh. Oh no. And the most important thing I'm sorry. Giving Tuesday >> promised Jeeoff I would say this. Giving Tuesday is December 2nd. You can go to the Parisburg Foundation website to make a donation on Tuesday, December 2nd, or hunt down Mr. Abk in one way and he'll he'll be happy to take your money one way or the other. So that's >> You want to talk about their the fundraiser they just started the the the foodie cards? >> Support the dogs, >> please. That's a found that's probably more in your wheelhouse than mine. >> Well, it's the same, but yeah, support the dogs. the foodie
100carts to support the uh support the dogs at the at the schools. >> They made something around $5,000 the night that they were selling them at the football game. Wasn't that right? >> Isn't that what he told me? It was around 5,000. >> They have 1,000 decks of cards to sell at $30 a piece. So, they sell all them and we'll be in good shape. >> Yeah. >> Sound make great Christmas gifts. >> Good stocking stuffers. which they're advocating five bucks for say that. So, >> pupil services met October 21st. Um there was a lot of stuff going on in that meeting. We uh I think one of the first things we did was look at the roles and responsibilities and how they've um rearranged and reassigned uh different roles and responsibilities due to their
101staffing cut within their office. Um, and as they kind of said, there are some things that just aren't going to be able to get done, at least in the near future, as they continue to live into these new roles. Um, they had a co-teer co-eing uh workshop that they continue to offer uh multiple times through the years as part of professional development and doing some really incredible work on that. um they provided a paraprofessional update and um as of right now n well as of that meeting in October 90% of the uh positions for par profofessionals were filled so there always is still a pressure on that point um and then they talked a little bit about special education a shout out to Andrea Glesser who presented at Capitol conference um and then the policies
102and procedures that are in that we're approving as part of the agenda were updated to align with the Ohio um standards. And I think there's there's just so much going on in those two departments. Um we did talk about the the uh decrease in English language learners this year that they've seen. Um we're still at 118. So decrease but still a lot. Um the social workers we we covered a lot of ground in that meeting. Anything else stood out to you? >> I think you got it all. So >> Okay, >> it's good meeting there. Um lots of information and well thoughtout things happening in that group. Um policy I don't think you've met since we got the first read. Um operations >> operations did not meet. >> Human resources. >> We did meet. Um
103we had a um it was a short meeting. Um he was just kind of updating us on some of the people that are retiring. And the list is many. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 10 that he knows of right now. and some of them are familiar names and some of them are on our list tonight. So that's the headaches never end in HR I guess is the is the moral to that story. >> Um >> some big shoes to fill in those retirement lists. >> Yes. Yes indeed. Um and there were other things that we talked about but really what what was relevant was that we we jumped down and talked a little bit about the superintendent search and some of the things that are going on in there. So,
104I know there was something I was not supposed to mention, so I don't want to do that. So, I'm going to just leave it at that. We've got retirements coming up and shoes to fill. >> Okay. Any other um committees that I might have missed or board discussion? >> Well, I attended the legislative liaison meeting this today. Um and Katie, you nailed everything. [laughter] It was as if you were there. Um but the that I I took away from the meeting was also that something that Katie mentioned too was that um it's going to take more than us to get the state legislature to move. Um some of the sessions that I attended in Columbus um last week were based on that and a lot of the things that we were all coming up with
105was that it's going to be our job to let our community know that it's time to put the boots on and it's time because they're they're turning a deaf ear to us. And so it's really got to come from the voters to say with almost 90% of the students in Ohio attending public schools, what you're doing is not right. >> And and so that was really a main consensus of a lot of the sessions that I attended. So it was something that I wanted to bring back that as we start doing this. And then why am I not surprised that you were already way ahead of me? [laughter] So I think that's great. That's why I'm interested in it because we did talk about it so much down in Columbus that you know there's there's
106a lot of heavy lifting to do and um it it's just it's really quite burdensome. So I appreciated your capsularization of those four things sitting on his desk right now because Nicole knows so much about it that trying to take notes when she's talking is just truly you [snorts] have to be a transcriptionist in order to do it [laughter] and I [clears throat] am not. >> Okay. So, any questions about any of it? Talk to Miss Lmer. >> Yeah, we got it. Two pages of notes. >> All right. 11.1. Um, outside the consent agenda, we have uh a proposal from finding leaders to provide our superintendent search support and to take the lead on those. Uh, we met with them back on November 13, 2025, and the proposal is there. Uh, they were hoping to
107be able to advertise this at capital conference, and I was like, not yet. We've got to approve a contract. So, um, I guess I'd like to have a motion for that and then we can have a discussion. >> So, moved. >> Mr. Anderson, Mr. Bennington, uh, discussion. >> The two guys that aren't going to be hang you guys up on >> No. Any discussion about the proposal? I I just really did not like the language in that one section that I emailed you about and I'm trying to find it right now in my notes. Um >> the language about the fees. >> Yes, the language about the fees. I mean, I know y'all tease me about being a grammar Nazi, but it really is very poorly worded because it it's strongly implicates that it's 15,900
108plus another 7,950 plus another 7,950 plus all the additional expenses, which throughout the earlier part of the contract was also implied. That's part of the 15900. So I think we either need to get stronger clarification. They need to reward that or we need to get Smeigielski's blessings on it. I think I just think it's really going into a contract that's that much with [clears throat] muddy language like that I think is is not I mean I'm I'm totally willing to approve the contract with the caveat that I want to see this language explained or clarified or something. Did you get that impression when you read the contract, Randy? No. because I think it says in full as follows colon and then splits it out that way and then picks up the expenses. I I didn't
109have I didn't think it was a $30,000 contract. I thought it was a $15,900 contract. >> And and Stu, I have to admit because I've dealt with them before and and that language is is common with K12 finding leaders and stuff. So, I [clears throat] didn't find it that mysterious, but you're you're right. There is some room for interpretation, but you have the what you commit to. You're committing to the 159 for sure. And after that, I think you need to get clarification from with from Stephen as you go along. >> And in talking with him, I think there's if there's additional things we want, we'll have to talk about that. But it's it's pretty much mileage. >> We're going to be paying mileage. Well, because he he me the contract mentions that um local
110local state adjoining state and national and I think they mentioned that twice but then I remember him saying at podium that if we wanted to go national we could there's just an extra cost I but wait it's it says it's >> that's the cost of advertising an a >> that's what's advertising >> that's the difference between the two and the 500 is the difference between just doing local state versus wanting to go national. It's a $300 difference. >> That's the I mean, I had asked that question. What was the difference between the two and 5,000? And I think that's how we got into that question. >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> It just >> I just think the wording is really really poor. >> Okay. Any other questions or comments? >> 15,900. Don't pay it. >>
111That's >> Yeah, there you go. I mean, we can clarify that, but in the conversations I've had with him, that's been our understanding. And I did I kind of asked what he expected. Um, and he said it's pretty much going to be the mileage. Unfortunately, I don't think any of the consultants we're going to be working with um live in Northwest Ohio. I'm not sure they have consultants in Northwest Ohio. >> None of their schools in their in their list of schools are from Northwest Ohio. Wow. Okay. But there's a lot of >> breaking ground trailblazers. >> They actually had three or four what we would be um compared to at the state level though that they are similar districts as who they've worked with which actually mattered to me. The other proposal that we
112had that was withdrew they didn't they only had one school I think over 3,000 students which is a different ball of wax. So, >> all right. Any other discussion, concerns? So, then, Mr. Jur, roll call, please, to approve the contract. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Mr. Bennington, >> yes. >> Miss Mankey, >> yes. >> M. Miss Lmer, >> yes. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. That's helpful. All right, we move into consent agenda. Um, I would like to pull uh policy update 17.1 for a small amendment, but we'll deal with that after the consent agenda. Does anyone else want to pull any other items? Again, pretty significant retirements um listed there. I guess it sounds like we're going to have more of those. If no other agenda items are to be pulled, could we
113have a motion to approve the consent agenda? So move >> second. >> Miss Mikey, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Dur. Roll call. >> Miss Minky, >> yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> yes. >> Mr. Bennington, >> yes. >> Miss Roland Miller, >> yes. So 17.1 that we move down. Uh I just and I circulated this language. I would just like to um adjust amend uh the language in the search uh in the vacancy policy which is the very first one 0145. Um I just I wanted to clean up some of the language that I felt uncomfortable with related to the use of the word large and strengths. it just um for policy language it felt a little um less substantial than I would want in a policy. And so my amendment that I
114would well I guess first we need a motion I need a motion to approve the policy and then I'll look at an amendment. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Mr. Bennington, Mr. Anderson. Discussion. I'd like to make an amendment to the highlighted area to read instead of if the number of applicants is large, the board may narrow the field to not less than 10 applicants for interviews based on the strength and relevance of their qualifications. I would just like to change that to the board may establish and apply a selection criteria to reduce the pool of eligible candidates to no more than 10 candidates prior to conducting interviews by the remaining members of the board. >> One [snorts] correction, no less than. >> Say that again. >> No, no less than 10 versus no more
115than 10. The intent is no more than I think the administrative content. >> Yeah. >> Isn't right. >> No, no, no. It's supposed to be But >> you had said more than >> I did when I read it. >> Yeah. >> Really? Well, it says less on my paper, but [laughter] >> Okay. >> I'm a little sometimes. >> Yeah. No, no, no. I It's Yeah. Wow. That's interesting. Eligible eligible candidates to no more than 10 candidates. No less than Wow, I did it again. >> Is anyone else concerned about me right now? I [laughter] Holy cow. Eligible candidates. So, no less than 10 candidates, I think. Yeah. Wouldn't we like less than 10 candidates to interview after? No. Okay. >> So, I've made an amendment. I'd like to move that. Could I have a second
116for discussion on the amendment? >> I want to, but I'm not sure. Yeah, I was going [laughter] to say yeah, >> you're not sure what I moved anymore. >> Okay. Any discussion to the amendment? Um, yes. I would like to propose because of the selection criteria um to take out the number of 10 candidates and let that be determined by the board. Because what's the purpose of having a selection criteria if you're going to leave a large number in there? Well, so we we discussed the number a bit in the policy committee when we were doing this and we were trying to find the balance between um having you know 24 28 applicants right which required 28 interviews by the board but also creating a bit of a boundary where the board wasn't just couldn't
117just down select to the one person they wanted. Right? So there was it forced some level of interview with the group that came but tried to keep it within a level of reason. I I don't know if 10's the reasonable number but this all started because of well I guess it my fault right there were what 28 was it? >> We ended up interviewing 20 >> 20 yeah 20 20 interviews that they had to do and >> trying to move that to a more reasonable number so it doesn't tie up five special meeting week nights. Um and so we just kind of settled on 10 because that would be widowing the field in half. Um leaving it unstated could then allow while the board just narrows it down to the one. They interview the one
118and they go from there. And we felt that that might not look transparent was the thought that was the thought process. >> Yeah. I think there's accountability with having a number in there to the public. I mean I I didn't come up with a number but I like the idea. No, I was just explaining the rationale on how we ended up because Sue and I were debating it in the in the room on where do we put it? How do we do that? So, >> and that can be done in two nights, which I think is more reasonable. >> Well, and if that's the case, I >> So, I'm going to I'm going to do an I I want to do a um point of order, which is that we have an amendment that we're
119discussing. If that amendment is passed, or if it's not passed, then if you want to make another amendment, you can do that. But we can't have we need to discuss the amendment that's on the floor. So my my language was to add in the selection criteria that would rather than um and take out the word large is really what I was attempting to do. >> Okay. I guess I'm confused. So I'm looking at this the green. So the green is what you want to remove >> and replace with my language when I read it correctly. [snorts] >> Is that a qualification? Um okay. But is do we have that written on here anywhere? Uh, I believe it was to be put into the um administrative content >> with a couple. >> Oh, I had to
120do scroll up. My apologies. >> Hey, if you refresh that. I think I >> corrected. Maybe people working at the same time. >> Oh yeah. >> So how do you is it vague to say apply a selection criteria? Right. To me that that bothers me that that falls into the large you've we've set stated something in policy without defining it. Um >> you want to establish the selection criteria in the policy. This would tell the board that they need to set what the criteria I mean we did this in our process as we said what are the needs of the board what are the needs of the board that we have right now what's missing from our board and that became our selection criteria when we interviewed the 20 this would establish that selection criteria
121to winnow it to the 10 and then you could use that selection career criteria or then another layer of selection criteria so selection criteria to me is is the rubric, you know, I could is the rubric that we created. It's exactly what we did in this past circumstance. >> Okay. I'm I'm thinking policy readers way down the road that are beyond all of us. I would think that to say apply a selection criteria determined by that board to reduce the pool of ed eligible because to me if I were to read this 10 years down the road I'd be I'd be looking all over my papers or through this nonsensical policy manual trying to find what that selection criteria is. if it if it specifies selection criteria determined by that board. >> Well, you you
122have on the strength and relevance of their experience qualifications in the previous and what I'm amending. I mean it I >> so I'll just say one. So you corrected it to the wrong thing. It was right. The original language was [laughter] right. I'm confusing. >> Less supposed to be less than 10. Is it up or >> I just can't read. >> I was having word salad. >> Sorry. >> All right. If this is um >> Let me put it back up. [laughter] >> I want to correct the language on this. You want >> I won't touch it so that it doesn't mess. >> Yeah. So, it should be no fewer that you're correct. >> Well, what if you have five applicants? >> You want to say five? five applicants. >> No fewer than 10. If
123you have five, then you >> That's to reduce. If there's already below 10, then we're not reducing to get there. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Exactly. >> That's what you want. Okay. [laughter] >> More. >> No one can resign. No. >> No. Fewer. >> I can't read it, so I'm following it on here. >> Yeah. Yeah. policy language in a group environment is entertained. >> Yeah, this is [laughter] okay. So, we have an amendment on the floor. Any other discussion? >> Yes, I would like to amend the amendment. I'd like to move >> question of the amendment that's currently there. >> Not when there's discussion going on. >> Well, >> you can't you can't amend it. You got a motion to second. With twothirds vote, we could close debate and move to a vote. And
124I've had a call to the question which isn't debatable. So, we have to vote to close debate. Mr. Durer, we're voting right now just to close debate on the amendment. >> All right. Mr. Anderson, >> yes. >> Taking notes. >> Mr. Bennington, >> yes. >> Miss Lmer, >> no. >> Miss Minky, >> no. Miss [snorts] Roland Miller. >> Yes. So, we're going to vote. We've closed debate. We're going to vote on the amendment as I've tried to present it and I believe as it is now written in the administrative content. Mr. Drew, roll call, please. >> I'm trying to read my writing. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bennington. >> Yes. >> Mr. Anderson. Yes, >> Miss Lurmer. >> No, >> Miss Mankey. >> No. >> Okay. So, the amendment we now have
125instead of the green language, the language that the amendment has put forward. So, we now have a motion discussion, which is when you can also make an amendment. So, >> so the motion that now we're we're debating is the amended motion. >> Okay. Yeah. Yeah. So, if somebody wants to amend it again, now is the time to do so. >> Okay. >> I thought we just voted on We voted to not discuss it anymore. We voted on your >> just on the amendment. We voted on not discussing the amendment anymore, >> but now we have the motion back on the floor. >> What was the second vote we just did? >> We closed and then we voted on the amendment. >> So we've we've we've voted on the language that's on the board now. >>
126So now the question is is I is if you wanted to amend the language, you could make that request or Laura if you wanted to amend it. We're It's now open to be amended from where it is now. >> We just I guess we can't amend it upon amendment upon amend, which actually makes sense. It'd get really confusing if we kept doing that. >> Yes, but you can, but that's okay. you um I would like to amend the accepted amendment to say I got uh the board may establish and apply selection criteria determined by that board. Do I want that board or this board? No, that board to be determined by that board. That that way it my my logic being that No, no discussion yet. We have an amendment to the motion. Is there
127a second? Without a second, the amendment >> dies. Are there any other discussions or amendments? I would like to see it change to sorry where it says the board may establish and apply a selection criteria to reduce the pool of eligible candidates to no fewer than eight candidates prior to conducting interviews by remaining members of the board. >> You'd like to make that amendment? >> Yes. All right. >> What was it? Eight. >> Eight. >> Okay. >> We have an amendment. I need a second. >> That doesn't make any sense. >> Motion fails. We're back to the original motion. Any other discussion? I would like to call on Randy and Katie about the numbers in here. How often do you see even as many as 10 candidates? >> We we've had them in our district
128before. We have historically. >> I know you did in this last one. In previous ones, we did not have that many. In the district that I came from, we never had that many, but that was a district that didn't participate in the same way. So, >> we've had eight or 10 if you go back at different points, and it's usually of times when things are >> Yeah. challenging, challenging. >> But I I think the other thing to remember is that you have a criteria. I mean, you could still have 25 people apply, right? But then the board will develop a criteria to decide which whatever number it is uh comes forward and I think that I mean that's the important part I think is that you get down to a reasonable number to evaluate and
129to interview giving you know as many people a fair a fair shot at it but I think you know we have to also trust the people that we elected to the board to develop strong criteria. Mhm. >> I I've not I've never experienced the number that you had in this last opening. So, I don't know what your in in when I was on the board, I think we had openings, we might get two or three, maybe four people applying. Um the last district I in, they had a board member pass away for the end of term and and they didn't um they took applications. I think they had three and they just they didn't interview anyone. they just appointed a board member who's coming off their term because they they wanted experience to stay on
130the board. So they developed that that was their criteria. So it's not as trans not as transparent. But that's the point with I think if I was going to coach the board you got transparency to consider but you also have make your job reasonable whatever that whatever that is >> and be reasonable about the amount of time that you have to pick somebody out. I mean, you've got an you've got one month and in between advertising and collecting those and then trying to set up I mean, what's to say that you're not going to have a board later on that might have jobs that they're out of town? What happens if you can't come up with two nights? Do you really want that to roll over to a judge to determine who's going to be
131on your board? And that's where again the selection criteria comes into play. So that you can narrow that down to one night. I I really think that eight people if we'd look at it, you know, 20 minutes to half an hour, then you can hopefully get something done within five hours. >> So I'm going to point out that at this point there is no motion to amend. We only have the motion as presented. And at this point, I'd like to call for the question, Mr. Drew, please. Well, now what are we voting on? Are we voting to call a question or are we voting on the amendment? >> We actually now are voting on the whole policy update as amended. So all the policy updates in this uh agenda item which includes the amended bylaw
132in 0145. >> Okay. Mr. Bennington. >> Yes. >> Mr. Anderson. >> Yes. >> Miss Lmer? >> Yes. >> Miss Mankey? >> No. >> Miss Roland Miller? >> Yes. >> All right. We have our policy amendment for the fall. Um at this time we will be going into executive session. Uh if we have a motion which would be to uh approve entering into executive session for the purpose of employment of an employee or official. Uh do we have a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. I >> have a question. >> Mr. Bington, Mr. Anderson. discussion. >> Did we actually vote to >> to approve the consent agenda? >> Yes. >> Did we actually do that? >> You did. >> Okay. >> Because it was likely a All right. All right. Um I do not expect any
133business after executive session. Mr. Dur, roll call, please, on the executive session. >> Mr. Bennington, yes. >> Mr. Anderson, >> yes. Yes. >> Miss Minky. >> Yes. >> Miss Lammer. >> Yes. >> Miss Roland Miller. >> Yes. >> Do you need a treasure prom to adjourn the meeting? >> It was decided. >> Okay. All right. >> We'll see you when you come in the morning. Brandy.