001[Music] Good evening. I'd like to call this meeting of the board of education to order. Uh it's April 21st, 2025. Mr. Drew, if you would do roll call, please. Mr. Bennington, here. Miss Lmer, here. Miss Mankey here. Miss Roland Miller here. We could stand and say the pledge of allegiance together. To the flag of 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 welcome you to the Commodore building this evening and we thank you for attending our board of education meeting. We care about the safety of our students, staff, families, and guests. Please note that there are exits on both the east and west sides of the cafeteria. West, east. Um, in case of emergency, an AED is
002located right outside these cafeteria doors. And in case you need to call for emergency help, our address is 140 East Indiana Avenue. Number 2.1, we have our agenda. There has been a change in the agenda uh as proposed. So we want to amend four item four to move it to the end of the meeting. And so if you minus one everything it would become number 19. That is acceptable. I'd like to entertain a motion to approve the agenda as amended. So move. Second. Miss Larur, Miss Mankey, Mr. Dur, roll call, please. Miss Larur, yes. Miss Mankey, yes. Mr. Bennington, yes. Miss Roland Miller, yes. Fun part of the meeting. We turn over to Mr. Hassler for board of education recognitions for tonight. Did I talk too fast? I'm just moving this down um on the
003agenda as just approved. So let me move that get to see the work in real time here. This is a little scary. Yeah, this is not a user friendly. Um so I might might not be able to get behind the curtain. Yeah, we might have to finish that later. All right. So, we have um several items on the agenda for recognition. So, this is a very busy time of the school year. Certainly busy for our our students and and busy for our staff and families. Um there's not much time left in the school year. So, we're we're we're kind of heading into the fourth quarter and and see the finish line in sight. But, we wanted to take a moment to first recognize the winter sports um uh state qualifiers. And and with that, I'd
004like to ask um um Mr. Jacob to to come up and um and introduce some of his coaches. Good evening. Um thank you for the opportunity. I want to thank the school board and the superintendent's office for your support of our student athletes. Um every every student athlete in the state of Ohio has the ultimate goal of reaching the state championship in Ohio. And tonight, it's my privilege to introduce our coaching staff who will present to you some student athletes who are not just the the cream of the crop here in the Northwest region, but also in the entire state of Ohio. Uh, and I serve as a proud athletic director of each and every one of them. Um, our our first um um presentation tonight was going to be Coach Bernett and and the
005wrestling program, but they don't ever seem to have a day off. They are literally prepping for a a tournament out in Vegas. So, we we we arranged for them to come in May just because they're they're starting at six o'clock at practice tonight. Um so, um our our our first presentation this evening will be um from our our cheerleading program, Coach Jenna [Applause] Perry. It's my battle every year. Um, first and foremost, thank you for having us. Um, and recognizing our athletes. Um, a little bit of backstory. Just some may know, some may not know, game day cheer is an extension of sideline. So, they, um, put in extra hours, work a longer season. Um, they start choreography in August, and then they competition season actually begins in November. Um, they had a crazy year
006ahead of them this year, but they killed every second of that routine. um they started their season out strong. So, their first competition this year was to qualify for nationals um in Orlando, Florida, where they qualified right off the bat um without hesitation. They had some local comps in between that and Florida, but then um did end up qualifying for the OASSA state competition as well, which was um the end of their season in February. um when getting to nationals, they hit all of their goals that they themselves had set as a team and ended up 10th in the nation. So, we're very proud of that. Um and then in with me tonight to be recognized, majority of them are here. We have one lacrosse player, so she's currently at a game. Um but if
007they would stand and come be recognized. Ready? Um, Ariana Lewansson, Ashlin Ty, Brooke Featherston, Ella Kersker, Kennedy Wood, Laney Reese, Lexi Lyron, Marissa Kelly, Sophia Mullins, and Tatum McCoy. Thank you again. She say 10th in the nation. Yeah. Wow. Uh, next this evening, I'd like to introduce our from our gymnastics program, Coach Danielle Tutleacheski. outfits tonight. Um, thank you once again to the board for this opportunity to recognize our athletes and thank you to our families who have been supporting us throughout the entire season. Um, this gymnastics team had an amazing season this year. Um, in addition to community outreach and philanthropy events, team bonding. We also went to our first outofd district meet in Columbus this year, which was a great opportunity for us to see some other competition throughout the state. The Jackets
008had a record of 60 and three. They were NLLL champions for the 10th consecutive year, which I think is the winningest streak that we have for the NLLL, district champs for the ninth consecutive year, and advancing to the state meet where we placed eighth. And that was a one place improvement from last season. So, um, I would like to recognize some of our athletes. Again, spring season is very, very busy. So, some are in the musical, some are at lacrosse and in track events. So, um, I'd like to start with our seniors. Come on up, ladies. Um, seniors Lauren Klein, co- captain, Cassia Deng, Emily Mains, who also qualified as an individual to the state meet, Valerie Ward, co- captain, also qualified as an individual to the state meet. um co- captain Sydney Wolfinger and
009then followed by our juniors McKenna Connley, Abby Lee also qualified as an individual to the state meet. Janie Snyder qualified as an individual to the state meets let's go sophomores Lee Finling, Meredith Kulatiki, and Kylie Ruiz. And followed up by our freshman class, Ashley Cherry, Ally Savage, and Lillian Wood. Um, and as you can as you heard, we had five students qualify for the state meet as an individual, which is also a school record. [Applause] Uh, next up to speak uh about the summary of our swim and dive season is coach Helena Hickman. Unfortunately, we don't have any of our swimmers here, so she's going to just give a quick brief recap. Hello. Thank you for supporting us and our team. Um we had an incredible season. Um we had I think the most swimmers
010and divers qualify for states in our school record for swim and dive. Um which was a total of uh five who competed and two uh additional qualifiers as um alternates. Um, we also had um we also had 30 kids on our team this year, which was amazing. Um, so many new swimmers. Uh, we only had one diver, but he's incredible. Um, so many new swimmers that just blew us away with their their talent. And um, so they performed really well at NLL's. Our girls team came in second and our boys came in fourth. We still remain the NLLL champions. Um uh for the most wins. Um we had 40 best times at NLL's, 50 best times at sectionals. All 30 kids qualified. Um we had 30 We have 31 if you include Trevor Madigan who
011is our incredible diver, but there's no dive dive sectional. Um we had eight or we had 17 kids qualify for districts uh which is a huge number. Um we had 18 best times. Trevor Madigan came in first. He is uh twotime district uh champion. Um he had his own personal best. He is very close to breaking the record. Uh we are looking forward to seeing what he can do next year. Um, and he is a threetime state qualifier. He's come in eighth, second or eighth, fourth, and second this year. He's a junior, so we've got one more year. So, if he keeps having, maybe we'll he'll get first next year. Um, he is because he's a junior, he hasn't actually officially signed, but he signed with the University of Minnesota diving. Um, we also had
012two other seniors uh sign this year. We had Natalie Sanders who's an incredible swimmer. I'll talk more about her in a sec. And then Katherine Fischer or no, Katherine Cromley. Katherine Cromley has signed for rowing at the University of Ill uh University of Louisville. And Natalie Sanders has signed for the University of Illinois Chicago for swimming. Katherine is going to do rowing. She's a multi-talented athlete as well as Natalie Sanders. Natalie Sanders. Uh, if all goes well, she's set to be a 12time state qualifier. So, that means four t three times her freshman year, three sophomore, junior, senior. That will be incredible because she's a an amazing uh cross country and track runner. Um, she has also um she is also a seventime NLL champion. And that's first place, sixtime section sectional champion, fivetime district
013champion. Um, and she has qualified all Ohio, which is top 16 in the state five times and qualified in 10 different events overall. Uh, this year she came in sixth and eighth place in the 200 and 100 free. And we had two relays qualify, the 200 free and the 400 free relay. They came in 19th and 23rd. We also broke four school records this year um seven times. Um which was just absolutely incredible. Um Natalie Sanders now holds six school records out of I believe 12 or no no sorry 11 on our on the out of she holds six possible out of 11 she six out of 11 possible records on our schoolboard. So that's incredible. Um, but yes, I'm very proud of them and it it it's it's just incredible that you guys support
014us so much. Thank you. Uh, I want to thank the um coaches who came and all the time. We know that there is far more time than anyone thinks there is that is put into coaching. I also want to recognize parents and all of the time. Um, swimming, I always think of early morning practices, so I apologize for whatever you've had to do to get your kid to the swimming pool. Um, but we're thankful for all the ways that parents, guardians, grandparents help make it possible for the students to achieve as much as they have. So, thank you very much. Next up, I'd like to introduce uh Chris Harper uh to recognize uh the United Way uh donations. Good e Good evening. Um uh is John and Tina here? Do you guys mind coming up?
015Um Britney Morgan, you guys don't mind coming up? Um, I want to share with you, it's my absolute pleasure to take a moment today to recognize and thank some truly generous partners in our community. We are incredibly grateful to the United Way for their recent donation, which totaled $5,000 that has made a meaningful impact in every kindergarten through 12th grade building across our district. Thanks to their support, our students now have access to high to thoughtfully stocked snack carts, which include not only nourishing snacks, but also essential hygiene items at the upper grades. In addition, school supplies have been provided to help ensure that every student has the tools they need to succeed. I think Tom has a picture of every building has a cart that looks like this and students in every building can
016access that cart with for the snacks. This effort was made possible through an amazing collaboration between the United Way, the Parisburg Heights Community Center, and I have Britney here, their executive director, and our Parisburg Social Work Department. Morgan helped coordinate w with the buildings. So, to the staff from the United Way who are here with you with us today, I want to say thank you for the hard work and thank you for supporting our students and our families to ensure that they've got the what they need to be successful. So this is Tina Britney. Thank you. Thank you very much. So thank you. How are you? How are you? You want to do this? You can do Chris. Okay. Okay. Thank you. [Music] thankful for community partners that um make the student experience even stronger.
017So, thank you to United Way, thank you to the Prairiesburg uh Community Heights Community Center, and thank you to our staff for um thinking through this and kind of coordinating it. All right. Um next, I'd like to introduce uh Dr. Justin Folultz and uh and I know he'd like to talk a little bit about uh Chris Harper who was just up here a moment ago. I have the alternate problem. It's never quite high enough for me. And is it okay if I face the group because I get a little paranoid with that many people at my back. So, um Chris, why don't you come up and please stand with me while I attempt to do you justice and discuss your recent accolade that I think we're all very proud of. So, it's no s surprise
018to me that in February, Chris Harper, our assistant director of student services and well-being, was honored as the Ohio school social worker of the year. And you can applaud now. I think it's a big one. So, uh Chris is, as you can see up on the screen, and probably the best way I can describe her is simply incomparable. I have never worked or been associated with anybody that has as big of a heart but then into action um quite like she does. She raises the bar for everybody throughout our district in terms of their willingness to give support and help. And what you just saw is really just a taste test of the sorts of things that she helps enable people to get done through our community. So Chris has been here for the last
01919 years I believe correct in a number of different roles. She has more uh letters after her name than anybody I've ever met, which means she's very talented, very valuable, and contributes in a number of ways. You know, I think in later this fall, she's going to be honored with uh 10 other state social work school social workers of the year at the regional conference. She has been instrumental in creating and being a leader in the area by creating the Northwest Ohio School Social Work Consortium, which I think now is nearly 40 members. Is that about right? So, um, you see some people in the crowd you recognize. Okay, you can. That's all right. That's all right. I'm glad you're enjoying this actually because I know you don't like to be doted on too much.
020So, um, we're very blessed to have Chris in our district to provide leadership, innovation, and I think more importantly, the community is very lucky to have you for all the things that you do. And I think some of your greatest successes are probably the ones that nobody else knows about except the people you're trying to help. So, I want to congratulate you on a great honor. And let's hear it again for Chris. Oh, that's a good picture. and they're escaping. All right. Next on the agenda is uh recognition of teachers that are being recommended for continuing contracts. So later on in the agenda, the board will be um asked to approve a list of of these teachers who've asked for continuing contracts. And we would like to have each of their uh respective principles come
021up and introduce each of the candidates and have them say a few words about what brought them to to this recommendation. So, we'll begin um with Parisburg High School and uh Dave Dolius has a couple teachers that he would like to to recommend for uh this consideration. Thank you. Um Charles, do you want to stand up? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So the uh the first teacher I am going to recognize recommend for a continuing contract is Charles Bode. Um Charles grew up in Parisburg. Um his wife is also from Parisburg. Correct. Um and um he has spent his entire uh K through 12 career in Parisburg. Um he graduated from Bowling Green State University with a degree in um education science specifically. Um and he returned to Parisburg to teach. So he's he's basically never left.
022Um um during his time at Parisburg High School, he's taught physical science, co-taught physical science, and chemistry and honors chemistry. Is it Did I miss anything? Okay. Um, that's that's good because you told me what to say. So, um, outside of the classroom, Charles has served on a number of committees, um, including, uh, multiple versions of grading committees, um, staff working against trouble, which we call SWAT, um, highly high quality assessments team, multiple interview committees, national honor society faculty panel. Um he's also been involved with students outside the classroom as a club adviser for the curling club and the gardening club. Um as well as coaching both boys and girls tennis. Um Charles also often leads professional development for other teachers. He's got a passion for um uh grading and grading practices. Many of our
023science teachers do standardsbased grading and he is um a leader in teaching other teachers how to how to how to how to grade and how to use standardsbased grading systems. Um he continuously strives to improve. um he for a long time had a co-eing partner um Ro Adameck who has retired a few years ago but um they went out and sought professional development on their own to become better co-eing partners. They did they did some things through Bowling Green to basically make the co-eing classroom more inclusive to make both teachers truly have ownership over the classroom and kind of transformed um their co-eing and how students viewed the two of them as as one or as equals in the classroom. Um he Charles continuously desires to improve. Um he has consistently had um evaluation ratings
024of accomplished through multiple evaluators. Um he's been a mentor teacher to both methods and student teachers um one of whom ended up coming back to teach at Parisburg High School. Um and uh he is also a leader within the science department um through standardsbased grading like which we talked about. Um he also often helps other teachers not only in the science department but throughout the building integrate more technology in the classroom. He often um we have um um clever touches a few and often if I we need to find it it's probably in Charles classroom. Um but he does a lot to help other teachers to use technology and integrate technology into the classroom. Um, so being a lifelong Yellow Jacket, Charles deeply desires to be the best for his students, Parisburg High School, and
025the Parisburg community every day. Um, it's an honor to recommend Charles for a continuing contract. Congratulations. I think I think you can sit down unless you want to keep standing. Next, Dirk, do you want to come up? Uh the next teacher I'd like to recommend is uh Dirk Connor. Dirk Connor is a math teacher at the high school. He's also a football coach. Um he has 17 years of teaching experience. He started teaching in uh Booneville High School in Indiana. Um you graduated from Butler? Yeah. Butler University in Ind Indiana. Um he taught eight years there. uh was a member of their math curriculum team and pres president of the faculty advisory. Um he then started teaching math at Bowling Green High School. Um where he was a member five years there, correct? Um he
026was a member of the BLT and twice voted the male teacher of the year by their senior class. Um he served as the athletic director there for four years. Um this is currently his fourth year teaching math at Parisburg. Um while he's been at Parisburg, he's been a part of the math curriculum review team. Um and he has done a lot of work with the Northwest Math Modeling and Reasoning Group. Um when he was involved in it primarily last year, we would continuously get emails from the leader thanking us for Durk and how how much he does and how well he presents and relates to the other um people in the group. Um, I'm not going to pretend to know what math modeling and reasoning is, but apparently he's very good at it. So, um,
027he's been a part of interview committees and is a collaborative team member in planning with others in the math department. Durk is often willing to teach any class. Um, he often says, "Just tell me what I'm going to teach," right? When we're creating the schedule. So, um, he, uh, he's a team player. Um, he gets along really well with everyone in the math department. um plans well, is a collaborative team member. Um he when he came taught a class called advanced quantitative reasoning, which is a pretty um specific class that he had never taught before, didn't design. It was not like it was his creation or anything, but he willingly jumped in, taught it for a few years, um and and did really great with it. It's often a class that students, seniors primarily, who
028are not great math students who don't love math take. Um, but he made it interesting and fun and and made it so that those students were successful. Um, he's always willing to co-e classes. Um, he he's willing to do whatever for the school, for the department. Um, outside of the classroom, Durk's been the the head football coach for four years. Um and he uh I think is much more than a football coach. He um leads the the men in his program to be good community members to be good um solid people. Um if there's ever an issue with a student and I contact Durk who on the football team, he's always supportive of whatever we're doing generally um does more. I think they're more afraid of what's going to come from him and than from
029us. um which is not a bad thing. Um and uh you know I know there was a there was um when we hired Dirk as the football coach and the math teacher, I think some people thought he was getting the job just because he was the football coach, right? Um but he quickly dispelled any notion of that and has um has proven himself to be a a real asset and um uh great um addition to our math department. So congratulations, sir. Thank you. [Applause] Next, I'd like to invite Don Bryant from Frank Elementary to introduce uh her two recommendations. Would you like to come up? Oh, okay. Well, oh, you broke it. I know. I see that. All right. So, it is my pleasure to um recommend Brook Schulty for continuing contract. She has been
030a teacher for Parisburg schools for the past 12 years. And she is an educator that has not only invested in her students, but also the school, the district, as well as the community. Um she's always been very involved. I think it's going to fall out. There we go. Done. And her dedication to the students um and the school has been unwavering. She has served on the district leadership teams, the building leadership team, district wellness committee. She was a union representative and she's served on various ELA committees. She's also actively involved with student activities at Frank. She's the adviser for safety patrol and student council. And then through her involvement with those organizations, she's done things like marching in the Parisburg holiday parade. She organizes our food drives. She just recently has collected a Goodwill donation
031drive. Um and she assists and works cooperatively with the Jacketway committee to put on the walk-athon. Um recently she um planned, organized, and obtained donations to bring back back Frank Garden Days. Um, and that's where we schedule community members and students and staff to come um to the school grounds, plant new plants, mulch, landscape. I mean, they were trimming shrubs. They were pulling weeds. Um, and Frank looked amazing. So, um, she is a liaison who coordinates bringing our seniors back, um, after graduation to honor them. Um she was nominated as Frank's outstanding educator of the year in 2016 and she just has such a passion and dedication for Parisburg schools as well as her students. I mean if we need anything done um and ask for volunteers, Mrs. Schulty is always one that raises her
032hand and stands up. So I am very honored to nominate her. [Applause] All right. And my second recommendation goes to Mrs. King. She um has been teaching for 22 years and she did obtain continuing contract at her previous district. She's been with Parisburg schools since 2022. and she's taught both kindergarten, first grade, and now she is serving as Frank's reading specialist. She's been involved as an educator and a leader. She served on the building leadership teams um as well as the sunshine committee. And this past summer, she went down to Cincinnati and did all of the training to become one of Frank's facility dog handlers for our dog, Liv. She's also our data facilitator for the building. So, she does all of the planning, organizing, um, and scheduling for all of our, um, grade level
033meetings, um, and planning our interventions. She is trained in the Wilson Wilson reading system, and she's a practitioner for the district. And this past year, she also started an after-school book club for students called Bookbees um, to instill the love of reading. Uh she's caring and knowledgeable and she is an expert in her field and a valuable resource for both our building as well as the district and I am honored to nominate her. Thank you. And uh Mr. Scott Buer, Parisburg Junior High and Mr. Scott Best from Hall Prairie. I was going to say we're going to bring uh Scott Best up with us, too. So, um you want to stand next to me? Do do it together. Um so, we're here on uh it's privilege to recommend Mr. Craig Bentley here um for you
034for a continuing contract for uh um you know consideration for that with Persburg schools. Um some background Mr. Bentley here. So he's been servicing our Yellow Jacket community for 19 years as one of our middle school and junior high band directors. Among his teaching responsibilities during those 19 years has been grades five, six, seven, eight band with experience with marching band, concert bands, jazz bands, and even a year in orchestra. Most recently, Mr. Mr. Bentley has served as both the PJHS and HBI at both buildings, splitting his day to teach students and grow the transition of band between the grade levels. Mr. Bentley's knowledge of the content, the progression of the students has helped ensure successful transition and cohesion between the buildings in the program. During his 19 years at Parisburg schools, Mr. Bentley has
035helped advance the band program in multiple ways. Most recently, Mr. Bentley has created and directed the fifth grade band program HPI and co-directed the PJHS band program to superior ratings beginning in 2015. In addition, Mr. Bentley has obtained lure as an adjudicator in the state of Ohio to help prepare our students for competition and served as a chair in honor band and large group competitions. Mr. Bentley has contributed to the advancement in the district's music program by serving in the music curriculum committee in which he works collaboratively with other music educators. The student experience continues to be a priority for Mr. Bentley as he's worked to begin and maintain the HPI and PGH PJHS band parent group helped begin and coordinate the PGH PJHS marching band that can be found marching in downtown Parisburg for
036the Memorial Day and coming home parades and created the band on the run which is coming up small there we go small plug right there Saturday May 3rd coming up the Band on the Run which is now the second biggest 5K in northwest Ohio second only to the glass city. Um, all of which that I just mentioned has helped Parisburg schools being named a top 100 community in America for music education 17 years running since 2007. Mr. Bentley is a dedicated professional who's a contributing member of the National Association for Music Education and the Ohio Music Education Association while obtaining his master's degree in educational leadership from Western Governor's University in 2011. In the classroom, Mr. Mr. Bentley holds his students to a high standard and shows the connection between dedication, passion, progress, and resilience.
037It is truly an honor for us to recommend Mr. Bentley for continuing contract here with Perisburg schools. [Applause] So, I would like to add uh his work at Hall Prairie to put numbers to it is the the beginner program. uh we consistently have over 200 students in our band program uh which translates into about 25% of our students. So he he is a big part of that. Uh he oversees it and he's done a great job and and like Scott said, you know, completely endorse and and this recommendation. [Applause] I' I'd um just like to congratulate all of you tonight and and thank the building leadership for bringing forth such an outstanding group of nominations for the board to consider. It truly shows and represents what is great about this school district. They are in
038this room tonight. So, thank you very much to all of you. Yes. So, yeah, just um part of the process to become a a teacher being recommended for a continuing contract. uh the the individuals that you see here this evening. There are many more that apply, but it is a pretty rigorous process to get to the point where we're standing up with our principles and teachers saying this is what it means to to make that kind of commitment to our students and and to make in return a commitment to them by offering a continuing contract is a significant step and it's one that we take very seriously here in Parisburg. So, we're we're very grateful. Congratulations. and um it it's certainly a a great way to begin talking about the spring and the end of
039the year by recognizing some some high-quality teachers here. So, good stuff. Right. Yeah. Just to reiterate, I um the academic piece is always so impressive to me, but then we also heard so much about the way that you're serving um our communities, our our school buildings, and also our students in really unique ways that go outside of the normal job description. So, thank you for all that you're doing. And register for the um fun 5K. I walk. I walk. It's at night. You can glow. It's fun. Um, we're going to take a five minute break. Um, give little bit of chance for us to take a break. Uh, we will be back. It's 6:23. We will be back at 6:28. back into order and we will without anyone having signed up for public comment we
040will move into item seven and the superintendent report. All right. Thank you. Um so we have a couple of presentations this evening and we'll begin with the April superintendent report. Um, kind of keeping the theme of having just a chance to recognize some of our outstanding staff, um, the Sunfederal Extraordinary Teacher of the Year Award was uh, handed to, uh, Chris Stein, who is a social studies teacher department chair at Parisburg High School. So, with that is a $500 reward and um, and um, that that will be he'll be recognized uh, later this month. So, um you may recall that we had Chris here for another recognition um with the state um social studies teacher of the year. So, this is his second kind of recognition for that. Uh and um we're certainly very excited
041about u you know what he continues to do for the district. And also like the teachers that we heard from earlier um just moments ago, he's also very involved outside of the classroom. So, it's not just about being, you know, somebody from bell to bell, but it is that extra piece that that oftentimes these outstanding teachers bring to the to the table. Um, so some of you, I know, had an opportunity to attend um the um Miss Glass who who delivered a speech about her experience as a Holocaust survivor. Um this was really special um special event um that we've been able to do at Parisburg Junior High as they um as they read the the memoir uh night and and learn about this. Um it was interesting. Um she was born in 1936 in
042in Amsterdam and um was was four years old when the Netherlands was invaded by uh Germany. And so her story is a little different than some of the speakers that we've had before who were adults or young adults. And um certainly um you know the the story as she or they rounded up the Jews there and were getting ready to ship them off and and the guard at the train station recognized the mother's name and crossed her off the list which gave them life. So to hear that story and to have our students so attentive and you know we certainly give a lot of credit to the junior high staff that that really pull this together and and make it something special for our students. So we're very grateful for the schools foundation for sponsoring
043this as well. So um we had some regional finalists in the Ohio governor's uh youth uh art e exhibition. So, when we, you know, the the artwork that is featured here, um, and you'll have a chance, um, on on May 1st, I believe, to come out and take a look at the the art show, uh, but at at the high school. But, uh, Madison, Sienna, Iris, and, uh, Gia are certainly very talented artists, and those are the pieces that were recognized, um, as a regional finalist. Uh so uh we had a number of students that attended the the University of Toledo's Latino Youth Summit and uh certainly a very powerful experience for them getting them on campus um meeting with other potential students and and finding out more about what the university has to offer
044and supporting all students. So that was something that was um a great time. uh National Honor Society induction took place on April 6th and we had um just over um 51 uh new members inducted and um and so that was something that was very special to those students and and their families. Uh they also handed out the the cords that graduating seniors will will wear at graduation that that isn't too far off in the future. So that's an exciting thing to to have those students see that and it begins that that right of passage of you know seniors starting to get recognition starting to get chords getting up getting getting geared up for for graduation but um these students have to show uh quite a bit of um academic achievement in the classroom by having
045a minimum GPA of uh 3.7 but also it's what is that that character piece that also is part of it the service piece um 20 hours or more um and and being that well-rounded individual. So, we appreciate those. And speaking of well-rounded individuals, so we had a pair um uh Penelopey and Austin uh were were a team that took part in Leukemia Lymphoma Society's uh 2025 student visionaries of the year program. they generated over $41,000 uh to the cause to help find a cure for uh leukemia and lymphoma. And uh so they were recognized for their uh great accomplishments and um and so we had uh 12 high school candidate teams that came together to raise $960,000 uh for the cause. So that is a significant contribution um in in fighting this. So So that
046was high schools across the area or was that the the the the 12 high school teams were from uh northwest Ohio. Um so certainly when when you know taking a look at what we've been able to do in Parisburg but also in in other places as well but working together they might be rivals on game day uh but here these teams came together and and uh certainly worked very hard. Uh so so that's something that's pretty special. Um, one of the things that we have talked about is just, you know, it's not what happens from bell to bell, but what happens outside of school and fostering those kinds of of ideals. Uh, Miss Miss Armst um, Miss Albbright is uh, works at Parisburg High School with our service and careers and this is a program
047that she put together, a jacket week of service. So, we know about jackets giving back in the fall, but the question of well, how can we do something to promote service in the spring? And so, this is a program where you you create a team, you choose a project, you pledge to participate, and you do it on your own pace um at your own time. And and so, it's just um reiterating that importance of being a good citizen, not only during the school day, but outside school. I mentioned the art auction on May 1st. it will wrap up, but you can go online with the link there and put some bids for some of these outstanding art pieces. So, um that's something that is um ongoing right now and we'd encourage you to go take
048a look at what's out there. So, we started a jacket moments that matter where people began to post things that were happening in and around schools. So, on a on a day like today during recess, um students at Fort Megs were were jumping and cheering with excitement thanks to the wind. Luckily, this wasn't today because they might have been carried away. Um, but uh this lesson was about the the force of wind and the power and and the things that go on to generate the wind and um and they got outside to do that. So, had had a lot of fun. Um this this uh also, you know, highlighted here was uh Mr. Jordan. I the part that jumped out at me is he scanned my head. That's probably not the first time someone's asked
049to scan Mr. Jordan's head, but it happened and he was able to create this piece of art with that. So, um, so that says a lot about what goes on there. 35 girls running in Girls on the Run, 5K practice. So, when we talk about Band on the Run, it's really a running community in Parisburg. And you're seeing, you know, a number of uh athletes and girl athletes getting ready and getting in shape there, led by uh Megan Coons, who's a a Boston Marathon uh finisher and qualifier. So, they're in in very good hands. Um and then just in the jacket way tickets that kids coming together and purchasing something um combining as a group saying this is what we want to do with our tickets that sense of camaraderie that sense of community coming
050together to do that. Um and then rocks is is another program that the schools foundation helps support um collecting different um you know food drive. So that is always very important. And then finally, um, senior hockey players pick their favorite teacher to give a stick to, autographed by the entire team. Um, Mrs. Jarnell, outstanding, um, um, fine arts, uh, teacher, uh, said this was something that was very special. So, I know the hockey teams and and many other teams and activities do that where they recognize their their most inspiring or favorite teachers. So, great to see that. So, that kind of wraps up our our April report. I don't know if there's any questions with that before we transition to the the next report. All right. Next is our our um you know what we've
051been doing each month with the student safety and accountability update. So, again, uh we have a commitment to transparency and and action. We continue to take significant steps to enhance student uh protections, increase transparency, and the way that we do that is through action and not just words. And and we want to talk a little bit about that. So since last month, we began this conversation with the community in January. In each uh meeting, we have given an update on what's happened and what's transpired since the last meeting uh so that people understand what is taking place. So, um, we did meet with, uh, um, the board board president and the executive director of human resources and student services and well-being on Wednesday, April 9th. So, this is something that we committed to do when
052a report is made to either uh the reports at reportschools.net or a voicemail at extension2800. Um, you know, three different people receive this. So that is a way of of making sure that we're being accountable uh to each other and to the community. So so that meeting took place where we reviewed the reports that have come in, reviewed past reports in terms of where they are in terms of their status. So nothing falls off the radar. Um so that is something that um took place on April 9th. Uh since the last meeting we talked about the student bill of rights to be heard. Um it was in development. Uh we are rolling this out and have been rolling this out. Uh we expanded the reporting mechanisms to reinforce the the tip line. Um and this
053is something that last week we talked about. We did a beta test to see how things that we want to keep track of that don't come in through the tip line. How are we tracking those things? And and we did a test last month. Now we we have it up and running and it and it's live. So, this internal documenting process is is out there. Um, it's something that we're continuing to fine-tune. U, we've had some calls from other school districts that have asked about how do we do this? Um, and they see and have been following this conversation and say that's something that maybe we would like to take a look at implementing here, which is something that we're we're proud of. Um, the second reading is on the agenda for the anti-grooming policy
054that we've developed. Um and then we have a meeting later this week with our um police chief and SRO's to to talk about um that internal process of formalizing uh police report documentation and also looking at what we've uh you know what we've encountered up to this point with the tip line and the reports because uh law enforcement looks at things a little bit differently than than we do and so we want to to maximize that um that opportunity. We also have created a way people can go back and look at from month to month. So this will take you to the actual board meetings when we're presenting this information. We heard the community say we want more transparency talking about these things, showing the numbers, showing the cases, the reports, the steps that we're
055taking. We want to to to create a bank of resources that people can go back and take a look at what was said in January. And that was the letter that was read that outlined the action that was going to take place February March and then this board meeting. So we wanted to document these things are very important to us. Uh since the last meeting these uh posters are beginning to appear at the high school which is the student bill of rights. It talks about the students rights to know. Uh there's a QR code that students can scan to get additional information. And also we have, and you might recognize this person, our um social worker of the year in Ohio, um Chris Harper, explaining to students and families what this is and and what
056it's about. Um last month we reported the student advisory committee that I meet with monthly. We talked to them about the work that we're trying to do to get a student's perspective and and you know, I'm very thankful for their voice um not only with this but in other matters. And um it was very helpful for us to to to have them say, "I think you need to explain it in a way that students would understand and and give us a breakdown." So we sent a letter out to families explaining what this is, have the video that will be sent to students or has been sent to students explaining it. So, so we really want students to be aware and that's something that we're going to continue to refine, but this was moving in in
057that direction. Um so again this is another way to report. There's multiple ways that can you can report but this is the one that we've started you know just this year. So since the last board meeting we've received one um one complaint to the the tip line. Um reports received reporting staff misconduct would be zero. Um, and the report that we received, um, since the last board meeting raised concerns about the work environment in a specific department during an employese's time in 2023. So, it's something that we're looking at and following up, you know, going back to 2023, uh, relative to what this former employee shared with us. Um, at the very beginning, you know, we wanted to make sure people who had made complaints that maybe went unheard or had information to share um
058about Mr. Henline um that that was uh a part of that uh initial complaint uh when we created this and since uh February 19th, we've not had any additional complaints um received. So the next steps is the meeting with the the police chief um and the SRO's uh to to take a look at what we have collected and look at our internal systems of how we're collecting things, how we're reporting things. And again, this is something that we keep in front of us. Uh reminder for students h how do you know who do you who can you turn to how to make a report? And there's multiple options. So, trusted adult, your parent, a teacher, a coach, um administrator, someone else that you trust, u you can you can do an email um and and
059send that to us. Leave a voicemail. The safer Ohio school tip line is an anonymous option out of uh Columbus. So, you call this this number and leave a tip and and we're notified of that and uh have to follow up. and then obviously contact local um law enforcement and uh child protective services. So we just always want to make sure that that information is is out there and available. So with that, if there's any further questions, I'll be happy to answer them at this time. You no no no questions per se, but just you know appreciation, acknowledgement to you, Mr. Hustler and Mr. Roland Miller for continuing to bring this forward, continuing to meet monthly and continuing to talk about it and update both the board and importantly the community on the work that
060we're doing here. I mean, I know in my business, safety is incredibly important to us and we talk about safety all the time and our meetings start off talking about it because you talk about those things that are important. So, this is just to me a signal of the importance of this issue to this district and it doesn't go unnoticed. All right. All right. And uh we will So I wanted to spend a little bit of time talking about the permanent improvement levy that will be on the ballot on May 6th. So permanent improvement levy renewal, not a new tax. Uh so this could be this will be the last board meeting we have an opportunity to discuss this. So um this is important. It's 15 days away. Uh so you know we'll be in
061May in just 15 days and and it'll be election day. There are multiple opportunities uh for folks to learn more information picking up a phone, sending an email um you know reaching out to board members or Randy or anyone here in the district. And then we do have some dates and times where where individuals can can stop in to get more information. So we have two events on April 24th um Monday, April 28th and then uh Friday, May 2nd. You can see different locations, different times during the day, during the evenings. Um you know, and if we get, you know, one person to show up, that's one person that had an interest, one person that gets answers. And and that's what this is all about is that out outreach. We did record the presentation and
062posted that to our YouTube channel. So folks that can't get out or might have a specific question um you know they're able to view that and and get this information as well. So the permanent improvement levy, you know, what is it? And um we know that this levy is set to expire on December 31st. So, this levy, the reason it's on the ballot is is that it is set to expire and the board is choosing to renew it, which means that we're asking voters to continue to pay what they're paying today um as they go forward. And we'll talk a little bit more about that. It funds anything that is permanent according to the the state of Ohio. So, anything that lasts five more five years or more. So you think about roofs and parking
063lots and um you know buses uh you know carpeting and musical instruments, desks and equipment. Those kinds of things are all part of what we do. Um we have a detailed plan that when we go out and when we've shown in passport meetings um of of actually what we're projecting to spend those dollars on. So, the individuals who out there who are saying, "Well, I want to know what you're spending those dollars on, um, every one of our presentations have talked and broken it down year by year, building by building, what we're going to do with those dollars." You can use it as a checklist in five years to see that we did the things that we said we were going to do. Um, this is not a new tax and and so that's something
064that's very important to us. Uh it was passed five years ago at 1.9 mills. But as the community grows, as more taxpayers move into the community, as the value of the community rises, the amount that is needed to generate that specific dollar amount that the voters approved, it it cost individuals less because more are paying into it. So that is why in Ohio you see that decrease in the millillage over these five years. So for for a home value of $100,000, you're paying right now $341 a month. So if you're in a $300,000 home, that's three times that amount. And you can kind of do the math there. Um for per $100,000, that's $4.92 a year um annually for $100,000. by renewing it, you still qualify for the homestead and roll back discounts because those
065went away a number of years ago, but this was first passed before the lawmakers took that away from from homeowners. Um, and and so because of that, this still qualifies. So, being able to renew it is certainly important to us and and important for us to talk about. the presentations when we get out there and and discuss those, you hear things about student safety, about switching the doors and keys. And I know James Mapus, our operations director, talks about how the keys are set up during a time where people weren't thinking about student safety, the way that we think about it today. So, some of our buildings, you have to go outside into the hallway to lock the door and then come back into the classroom. Um and and certainly that's problematic if you're going
066into a a lockdown. Being able to lock those from inside is something that we've been changing out. And thanks to these PI funds, we continue to do that. Um these funds are are are dedicated for these kinds of things that we've talked about, new buses, equipment, um repairs. It cannot go for operations. It it can't go for programming. It can't go towards people. Uh, so this is really essential for us to to get out into the community and what we do because as we talked about, the junior high um has a has a roof that's scheduled to be replaced and in the third year of this levy, it is almost $600,000 projected to replace that section of the roof. Um, if the levy is rejected by the voters and it goes away, we are still
067going to need to replace that portion of the roof, we don't have an option with many of these kinds of projects that we're talking about. So, where will we go to find that $600,000 for that section of the roof? It will come out of the general fund. What comes out of the general fund fund? paying the teachers that we saw here this evening, the programs that we talked about this evening, keeping the lights on, those are the things that come out of the general fund. So, this is very important to us. Um, our buildings on average are 46 years old. And if you're 46 years old, you know, things don't always work as well as they used to when you were much younger and that holds true with our buildings. Uh, so it's important that
068we've done a great job of keeping up with our buildings. this $1.7 million goes a a long way um for that uh to to keep those buildings in in very good shape. Having these uh um levy events in the buildings gives individuals a chance to come in and see how those dollars are being spent. So that's being very transparent to what we do. So if the levy is rejected, um we've talked about this. uh we we the board could choose to to not put the levy back on the ballot and say we're just going to need to find those funds. And and so that would be $1.7 million that we're using for roofs and parking lots and windows and doors that we're going we're going to need to find a way to do those things
069without a revenue stream to do it. And and that starts to compete against the things that we mentioned earlier. you the board could choose to place it back on the on the ballot uh in November and we know we're going to have an operational levy on the ballot in November. So now you have two different issues that are on the ballot. Um and and certainly that could be um a challenge. um having that pass in the operational levy uh be rejected uh would would create an interesting dynamic um for for the district or just to adjust the operational levy to incorporate the loss of of revenue for the permanent improvement levy either by adding 1.7 or somewhere in that neighborhood to the operational levy or having us reduce further cuts to account for that loss
070and keeping the operational levy at the for what we need to operate. The reason that we're we're talking about this is that we went back to November and and we've talked about the the outcome of school levies in November. Certainly, we understand what that meant here locally in Parisburg, but there were 142 school levies across Ohio in November, and 71 of them failed, were rejected by voters. So, we went in and pulled out the permanent improvement renewals, which is what this is. Because you hear you have some people saying that's a pretty easy levy. It's pretty straightforward. The dollars you're raising are going right back into the facilities and that is a good investment. And and when we went back in and looked at the the election results, we saw of those nine renewals, permanent
071improvement renewals, um only four had passed. and five were rejected. So, this is something that isn't is a concern for us as we begin to talk to the community. It is a concern of ours because across Ohio and and this map kind of represents this. Um there were 70 school districts that saw levies rejected in Ohio and this is where they're located. Um, I mentioned there were 71 levy uh levies that that were rejected. Um, some school districts had two items on and and saw losses. So that's why there's a discrepancy. There was one school district that had two uh levies on and and both uh were rejected. So, so when you look at what happened in November across the state and the sentiment that that raises in those communities and and you're you're very
072familiar with what people are saying here in Parisburg and just to kind of bring it to full circle on the screen are are the districts where there were levy losses. Um there are every kind of district that you can think of is represented here. So this is just A through F. This is F through M. M through W or through T and U through W. There's urban districts. There's suburban districts. There are rural districts. Um there's there's districts from northeast Ohio and southeast Ohio, central Ohio, northwest Ohio um just about everywhere. So this is something that is very important to us as we continue to look towards um the work that we have ahead of us in the next 15 days. um is making sure that people understand what's at stake and and if you
073take it for granted that well this was first passed in 1980 and every five years it passes um I think it would be a mistake to assume you know based on what happened at the last election across the state and here in Parisburg um that that we can count on anything uh other than getting out talking to people making sure people understand what's at stake. So again we we began with this slide and we're ending with this slide which is 15 days and uh and just a reminder so there is information QR codes um uh you can go get this presentation other presentations and um you know certainly um pause here for a moment and answer any questions that any of you may have. I had um I actually had one and I thought I
074had this f finally solid. Um, one of our options if this failed was to either run it again in the fall, not run it again at all, or increase the um operational levy ask, can you take PI projects out of an operational levy? So, if there is um, and that's a good question. And I'm sure other people will have that question, Miss Lurmer. So, um, so right now we have $1.7 million as a revenue stream to do the projects that we've outlined and and we have a plan. We have the dollars match to that plan and you've seen what every building would is calling for. Um, that doesn't cover all of our needs in this district. um with buildings averaging over, you know, 46 years old, the $1.7 million, one section of the roof is
075600,000. And and so there's there's other needs that we pull money out of the general fund for. So if the PI is rejected, those projects that we want and need to to take care of, um we will have to pull money out of the general fund to do it. that point it's no longer PI projects. They are no longer, you know, connected to the permanent improvement levy. They are bad roofs that need to be replaced this year. And this is the fund that we have to replace it. And as we've gone through the reduction list and we have um you know actions this evening where staff is being recalled and staff is resigning and all those kinds of things that that are happening across the district. um that that further would would deepen the hole
076that we have to climb out of which is you know making those cuts. So so we can we do take money out to spend on facilities that isn't connected with the PI and if the PI is rejected um there there there's no there is no PI at that point in time and those just become projects that we have to take care of. Okay, I can understand that they come out of the general fund, but which then hurts the general fund because now we can't use it on education and programs. So, I guess where I'm getting the disconnect is that we know that operational funds aren't being used on these. It went away the the pictures that you had on there. So if there's no PI, hey Sue, see if I can help you. Do you
077see where I'm going with this? PI is a restricted fund. Okay, that's the difference, right? General fund is an unrestricted fund, right? We can use it for whatever is um appropriate expenditure for the district out of general fund. Personnel, you you could f fund a building project if you wanted to out of general fund. It's not restricted. PI is a restricted fund. That's the key that that money can only be used for the it its defined purpose. So operational our levy for the operational it's general fund. That's true. It's unrestricted and it's unrestricted. That's where it was going because since they both have a specific name I wondered it was that word restricted. Okay. I knew I knew the PI was restricted but now that makes it more clear. Thank you. I think one of
078the questions that's come up in the PI levies and in some conversations I've had is are we pulling money right now above the 1.7 million from our general fund to cover maintenance issues beyond 1.7 on a regular basis. Um, I'll note that the projected uh, you know, the the plan, the five-year plan of how these funds will be used that's been shared in different powerpoints that's available on the website. If you look at the totals, um, several years do go over 1.7. And the assumption is is in order to complete all those projects in that year, we are pulling from the general fund up to, you know, possibly three to $500,000. So I think one of the questions been in the past, how much have we been pulling out of the operating fund to cover
079additional capital expenses? Well, you can look at our capital spending is anywhere from $400 or $500,000 a year just on the capital side. But then you look at our maintenance services really any maintenance repair to a building that's for has a over fiveyear impact could be pulled out of permanent improvement. Right? So, it's not just stuff you see in the capital line, you know, the the maintenance expense. Um, we have to we have um something break and you have to replace um something in the building that has a 5-year life. We're going to pay for it out of general fund. It could have been used out of permanent improvement, right? And there's other things that we don't anymore. For example, textbooks used to be a prime purchase out of permanent improvement, but since we don't
080really have textbooks, but really anything with a five-year life could be spent out of permanent improvement. So, there's a balancing act. James and I have these conversations all the time when things come up. We do we use general fund money or use PI money. It just depends on where we are, you know, budget at that at that point. So I'm So I'm looking at the uh I've jumped ahead to your financial report. The general fund capital outlay forecasted for 2425 is about $663,000. Last year's fiscal year $530,000 came out of the op the general fund to cover these type of items. Yeah. So and that's just to your point that's just capital outlay. There's other numbers in here that are maintenance that don't do that. We are we are leasing our butches buses out of
081general fund. When we did the lighting upgrade across the district and the HVAC upgrade at the at the high school and in this building we that cost of those projects we split between our commodore fund PI fund and general fund. So we split where approp so we're doing that all the time. We're trying to balance so find a way to get the job done. if if we lose a roof, we're going to repair it. Now, the question where it's gonna come from is where we have, you know, the best funding source at that point, right? And general fund's unrestricted. So, so we do a lot, you know, maintenance really all our maintenance stuff that we pay through um general fund that doesn't show up in PI. Okay. Okay. So, I guess if I if I'm
082in your shoes and and the um PI levy doesn't get renewed or the board decides not to renew it, you're now budgeting another at least 1 $7 million into that. We're not set, you know, we're going to talk about setting priorities, right? Because we're going to and that's what's going to come down to if you look at the list that we have, you know, for 10 years out, I don't see anything that's really a want. They're they're all needs, right? So, we'll have to find a way to do it where we reduce, you know, think about it on the general fund, what's our biggest expense? It's people, right? If we're we're going to save money that in order to have it for for permanent improvement, it's got to come from not all of it from
083staff, but I mean, I'm sure, but for the bulk of our expenditure, it's our staff. So in that um in the PI levy packet that people could pick up that you had that that chart that had the schools and the projects across the years. It seems to me if I remember that the the very first year were over the 1.7 mil, right? So um does $1.7 million. Yeah. Not mill. Yeah. Uh I I caught it as it was coming out. Um so Randy, that that overage at that time then does that come out of then the general fund? Well, really what we've done with that is that's that's kind of our planning. That's what we'd like to do, right? And so those are estimates down down the road. So fatherther you get out, you don't
084know exactly what the cost is going to be. The other thing you have to plan on is okay, this year I'm going over a little bit. I have a cash carryover, I can afford to go over. So, so maybe next year I'm a little bit less so I can save money or if I if I got something going three years from now, I need to plan on saving money in the PI levy in order to fund that project. So, that's a that's ongoing dance that James and I are going to have to have these conversations on. What do we have to do? And then is it something again PI or general fund, right? And that's and that's that's the conversation we're having. It's like the the trailers conversation for portable classrooms. When do we need
085to purchase that? Now, he you can see he has no money in the PI levy PI budget to be able to buy those trailers. So, they're they're it's going to be in general fund. The question is what year, right? So, we're having these ongoing it's it's not one and done, right? Because all these projects are pending. You know, maybe we get lucky and the bids come in less than what we expected, right? So, we have this wish list and sometimes we have to manage. We can't do it all. It may be all on the list, but you may not do it all because if you don't have the money, you're not going to do it. So, what don't you do? I I think it's important to point out that if you look at the project
086listing, there is a $200,000 per year contingency fund in the recognition that um emergencies happen and that there we've kind of planned for emergencies to happen that things might need to bump in earlier, something that hadn't been thought of um occurs. So, and you know, fiscal year 25 27 is below the 1.7. So that allows the following years that actually get higher um you know some of that carryover can take care of some of the projects that are in fiscal year 28 29 and 30. And if you remember last year we had transformer failure at the high school as on our property not our fault but it was our property and so we replaced it. we had a significant electrical failure at the junior high that cost and that's why you know James tries to
087keep a little bit of contingency to handle those things but if he didn't have it it'd be coming out of general fund and just to put in perspective when when this was first passed the equivalent of this was between5 and $6 million depending on the the millillage in 1980 and that probably covered with with three less buildings and newer buildings in 1980 covered the majority if not all of the expenses. And today um we we have three three additional buildings and our buildings are much older than they were in 1980. And those dollars certainly we stretch them as far as they can go. So I'd be I'd be remiss to mention one of the reasons we're able to do what Mr. Hasser just pointed out is because of having uh an operations director of the
088quality of James Mapus because in the past what would happen is we want to do a project we'd contract out to an engineering firm to do the project right so we're paying someone to manage the project we don't have to do that anymore James can put it out for bid James can manage the project in house and so we've saved a lot of money using third you know from using third parties um firms And that position pays for itself by being able to do those kinds of things. He's amazing. So, another question that has come up during the presentations that we wanted to have a little bit more conversation about was this question. Um, back to slide, I think it was eight. What happens if the levy is rejected by the voters? Um, people are
089asking, well, what what are you going to do? and we can kind of talk generally about that, but there isn't really a consensus by the board right now that we have a definitive answer to that question when it comes up. Um, you know, part of my answer is please just vote for it and then we don't need to worry about this question, but we also need to prepare be prepared. Um, with less than 50% of the permanent improvement levies being rejected in November, we need to be prepared. So, I want to just open the dialogue and discussion a little bit about what our thoughts are. Um, again, there's there's the three options on the slide that Mr. Hustler has presented. Um, like creative ideas, too. But, um, what are people's thoughts about what to do
090if the levy is rejected in May? Well, personally, I think it's foolish to not try it again because if you don't try it again, then you lose the homestead and roll back discounts. I if because Oh, wait a minute. Can we if it doesn't pass this time if we put it back on? Yeah, because it's still it's still viable. Hasn't expired yet. It hasn't expired yet. Okay. I just had to think that through and answered my own question. um to lose that discount which our community is not paying directly out of their pockets I think would be kind of silly to do. Um so I I'm I'm all in favor of running it again. I know that means we've got two on there and that's that's risky too, but it is what it is. Again,
091my concern in in putting the two independently of each other is that we could pass the operational levy, fail the PI levy, and then our operational levy is 1.7 million less than what we need. Um, so I think one of my questions is this is a new wrinkle in, you know, levy 501 class. Uh, is it possible to link the two that both would have to pass or both would have to be rejected? Because again, I we're trying to plan the most we're trying to plan carefully for the operational levy, not ask for more than we need, um maintain the student experience that we will be having next year. So to suddenly then lose the PI levy and need 1.7 million possibly out of the operational will throw any of that planning out. That's my
092concern. So the question I is there a way to link the two issues together that you vote only once? Yes or no? No, they have to be two independent. Yes. Okay. That was my creative idea for the day. Yeah. They're two two different type of levies. And just just put reference that the discount is worth it's about 10%. So that 1.7 million, 10% of that's coming from the state. So taxpayers are getting a 10% discount on average. Obviously, some get none or 2%. And then the state's rec making up that other 10%. So it's not huge, but it's it's over a tenth. It's over a tenth of a mill. Well, in this environment of shrinking state funding, too, I'll take every dollar from the state that we can possibly get to help the taxpayers of
093our community. So, I'm um you know, I'm going to pull stuff that I heard from both of you. I agree if this passes, I promise I won't put this permanent improvement levy back on the November ballot. So, be clear about that. The key here is to get this one passed. But if it doesn't, I think that the roll back and the discounts that we're talking about are too important and the message needs to be simple to the taxpayers that I'd be in favor of putting this back on uh in November. you know recognizing the risk of having to message two levies and also kind of recognizing that risk that there may be some there not may there are people out there saying we'll have two bites at this apple you know I hope that's not
094the compelling argument the compelling argument should be this is not a new tax let's get this one passed now so that we can move forward and start planning for the critically important operational levy in November say something I would agree you know letting this slip by is not even in my mind. If it doesn't pass in May, it will definitely go on to me. It will go on in November. Um let you know just alone for that 10% which is very important. Um, I think it's important to say also as being on both finance and operations, one of the most crucial parts with the operations group is our our roofs on our district. We cannot even think about not letting not renewing the new ones or the ones that need to be replaced because if
095we have roof go down and we've had this recently with the junior high, there is a lot more cost into a roof failing and the cleanup and repair from that. So the money that we will need for the roofs, if this does not pass, it will come out of the general fund. There's no if ends or buts about it. It is a has to be done item. Sounds like we have our answer for the next time that's asked at the sessions. Is there any other discussion or comments, questions about the PI? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Hustler. Remind all your friends to vote. All right. U we move into number eight in the treasurer's report. Mr. Drewer. All right. I appreciate it. Um maybe I turn this thing on. There we go. I'm going to be
096just a bit contankerous tonight and get on my soap box just a little bit. I always am. I'm sorry, but uh even more so tonight. One of the things that uh and and you guys all know this whether it's personal improvement or professional development whatever it is and the the question always is what's your why you know you know why are we why are you chosen to be board members or why do you want to be board members why you know do we choose this profession and um and sometimes I think it's good to remind ourselves of that of course tonight we have a great example of our athletes our our faculty and our district is is fabulous, right? I um it's no secret that I spent many many years in the private sector and
097chose some people are wondering why I was crazy to get into 12 K12 education, but I'm passionate about the kids. Always have been and that's why we're here. So, I want to kind of and and why Parisburg. I'm here at Parisburg because of what this community has done, what the district has done. And I want to continue to remind ourselves of all the good things and this is an outst and and My ego gets frankly stroked every time I go to Columbus because all the people want to know what you're doing in Parisburg. I get more questions. How are you guys doing this? What are you doing, you know, and and working with Mr. Hustler that uh you know, how is it working with with Tom and you know that relationship? And I think it's
098an it's a shining example a lot of places and that we don't always appreciate here, right? You know, so I just want to remind ourselves of a couple things and I show this once in a while. It's been a while since I've shown this chart, but this is um a performance index versus spending per pupil. And this is Parisburg versus the Wood and Lucas County districts. Again, you know, the only district that outperforms us is Ottawa Hills. And they outspend us. And we can all say socially economically they're a different community than us. Okay, that's fine. And if you talk to uh Mr. Schwarz Miller or Mr. Sarns, we don't compare ourselves academically to Wooden Lucas County. No, no offense, but if you compare ourselves to the top 10 comparison districts across the state, there
099we are still below average on spending per pupil and above average on our performance. You know, that's that's my why or one of my wise that what we have going on here and all the other stuff is distractions that we have to deal with and we'll do it to the best of our ability continue to do that. But this is the why. This is our in my mind if you're in the private sector they have something called key performance indicators. Here's a key performance indicator in my mind. So I just want to remind ourselves and I remind my staff this a lot of times is we don't count beans for the sake of counting beans. We're here to educate kids and make sure we we take care of the funds to um provide those resources
100to our staff as best we can. In that mode, I'm gonna I'm gonna again I'm gonna shamelessly plug the district and staff. As you know, we had a clean audit and we've got our third straight Otter state award and um we'll we'll put it in a frame upstairs. So, we'll continue to show our wins and it's and it's a team and that is really a team effort between my department, the high school counseling staff because of college credit plus food service. It is not a single department because anymore we talk about um these audit awards it's not just finance it's a lot of other factors including things like attendance management public records management you know all those kinds of things so off soap box moving on it's good soap box so again I want here's
101our again our cash balance graph you've seen this and every you know our trajectory Tory, this is and we'll get to it later. This is very important. For fun, I projected this out. So, we'll end the year somewhere around $22 million cash balance. Now, some people might think that is excessive, but as we'll we'll see that, you know, we talk about the forecast down the road. It is not. And but um that's the that's our trend. And this is just just this year. So, the dark green line at the bottom is expenses relatively flat. It doesn't fluctuate too much monthtomonth, but the red line, our revenue does. That's why we carry cash balance, right? If we if we didn't have fluctuating revenue, we count on it exact every month, we wouldn't have to carry such
102a cash balance. Just And the light green is the cash balance. Light green is a cash balance. Yeah. All right. So, let's get into where we are briefly. Um, fiscal year to date, we're 75% through the year. We're at 160 true cash days, which is great. I'd love to be there all the time. That's not where we'll end up. And in fact, there's some pressure to make sure districts don't have that high of a cash balance. Um, right now, our revenue at the end of March was 10% over year-over-year. I'm going to come back to this one because it's it's a little bit it's it's there's overstating because of timing, but I want to keep that in perspective. And our expenses are 8% um up over year-over-year. So going back to um that 10% as
103I talked about last month, we had not at the end of March, we had not received our final tax settlement yet. And what we do in my office is when we get tax advances, we put it all in general fund because if you look at the settlement sheets, it's very very complicated. So put it all in general fund, then we get the final tax settlement. We get it divided up into all the right buckets. So what that means at this point the real estate taxes are probably overstated a little bit and the public utility personal property is understated. So so this is where we were at the end of March. I'm going to really confuse things because I'm going to project a week into April. Okay. And by the way I should include that we'll
104talk about roll back discounts and that's where in this line here and it's important in the next slide. So, we got our final tax settlement f, you know, just a few days after we closed March, and this is where we ended um this is where we are year to date on prop property taxes. You'll see we're 8% down year-over-year on property tax. Not surprising, right? Because the levy rejection in November, you'll see that we're down four and a half% on p on public utilities, personal property. But then but if you note on my yeah it doesn't show up. Um public utilities personal property were actually better than projected. We we predicted personal public utility personal property to be down but we're not we weren't down as much as we expected. We'll talk more about that
105going on. And then um state share of local property taxes. It's gone up year-over-year. So the question is what has happened? Why would that happen? when it go up when we had a levy for that that um came off. Well, what what happened is with the renewal with the renewal with the re with a reappraisal last year, remember valuations went up 24%. There's probably more people enrolled in the discount programs. So, our so our discount state share of local taxes went up, got some bigger discounts. So we collected less locally and we got more from the state if that makes sense. And in fact we netted more. We can look at those two numbers. Okay. So just it's it's a balancing act. So you know when we work on the forecast and trying to project
106revenue and stuff we've got these these things going on. And so at this point our year-over-year revenue is down negative 3%. I don't think that's where it's going to end up. I think it'll be it'll be down year-over-year, but not but not that much. Okay, going back to end of March, I'm not gonna um the big the bright spot is our is our investments. We are way up over um where I expected us to be. And I hate to, you know, this will sound kind of weird, but all the craziness in the economy right now, the Wall Street, um, tariffs, all those conversations, they help our kind of investments because they're secure. The return is is, um, is fixed, if you will. So, it helps our our world when the So, that's kind of I
107hate to say in this case, chaos chaos helps us a little bit. And if you remember, we did a bond refunding several years ago. The day the bonds went to sale was day when Russia invaded Ukraine. And it was like, oh geeers, what's going to happen? It worked to our benefit because that created chaos in the market and our bonds look safe and therefore we could get a better we got lower interest rates on them. So sometimes the market does chaos does work in our favor. Now, that's not not my choice of a world, but that's that's another story. On the expense side, um just want to note that we are just we're on spending on trend. We're 75% through the year and you can see that we are um on trend and going back
108to your point Sue if you look in the capital outlay that's that's the biggest area that you see kind of permanent improvement kind of money out but you'll also see purchase services and supplies have elements of permanent improvement in there also. It's just that they're they're buried in smaller amounts. I'm going to pause right there. That's so we're trending right where we kind of expect to be. Um you know we had projected I'll be working a fivey year for uh end of the year to $3 million deficit. I don't think we'll end up deficit's going to be better than that. It'll be less it'll still be a deficit spending but it'll be less than 3 million. So questions. All right. So again overear revenue looks like we're down 3.1. I don't think it'll end up
109that way and interest earnings remain strong and we're on trend on expenses and and expenses may imp continue to improve a little bit. If you noticed personnel was less than 75% right we've struggled through without having c some custodians not filled those positions those kinds of things like that have generated savings um you know before going to next school year. All right. All right. My lesson favorite subject, but this is one of those. Let's I'll give you an update on the state budget where we are right now as of today. Civics lesson 101. Um this is a a basic representation of the how a bill becomes a law. So every other bianium the governor introduces their budget. It'll start either at the house or the senate depending on the bianium. This year it started in
110the house. So the governor's proposal went to the house. The house had a bunch of hearings um and then the committee reported out and then the substitute bill was passed by the house. That's where we are today. We'll talk about those details in a minute. So the governor's bill has been replaced by a substitute bill at this point. Once the the legislature gets back from break next I think they're on break this week, they're back next week. Um, then the Senate will pick will pick it up from there at this point. And then if the if the Senate agrees with the with the House, hunky dory, they pass it. It goes to the governor's signature. If they don't agree, then they go to to conference committee and they go behind doors, you know, close the
111door as non-transparent as you can be and they make a deal. And that's just the way our system works. So, as House Bill 96, that's the biium budget, was introduced by the governor's proposal, the governor said, "Hey, we're going to continue to phase in the fair school funding plan, but we're not going to update base costs." And I can tell you for us, the most important piece of that was updating base costs, right? Because as as you'll we'll talk about when we have the forecast, we don't do anything. We still have inflationary pressures. We got more students as well as costs are going up. So with the governor's budget, we were going to we'd lose funding, right? We because they're not updating the base costs. So the house said, "We agree with the governor. We'll
112phase in a fair school funding plan and we'll agree with the governor. We won't update the base costs." Okay. And then whamo, it was a technical term. the the House said we're going to phase in the fair school funding plan, but essentially Department of Educ Education and Workforce Development, you're not using it. We have we're going to have the formula on the books, but you're not going to fund schools that way. And they set up a temporary funding um process for the next two years. And not going to get into the details of this. Essentially, they said, "Oh, you know, these we're going to make sure every school gets some more money over the governor's budget." Not necessarily more money or where they were, but more money than what they would have got under the
113governor's budget. And so, it kind of looks like this. So, the governor's proposal was cutting public education by 130 million and that um and then sorry, the state share would decline. In our case, we'd go from 20% down to 11%. And guarantees would be eroded. Okay, that means, you know, the whole idea is let's not let's get rid of the guarantees because those guarantees are funding empty seats, which is not I can tell you is not true, particularly in our case. But the house said, look, and they they kind of listened and said, well, the governor's budget, we'll give every we'll give the public schools $100 million for the next two years, each of the next two years approximately. Every district gets an increase. And guess what? Growing districts, you get a growth supplement about
114$20 per student. You know, it's better than nothing. So, what does it mean for us? Essentially means we are still capped. We're still not going to get funded for every student that we have in the district. And we'll go from being formulaf funded onto a guarantee. And that guarantee is based on this year's funding. So costs are going to go up and we'll have more students, but our funding won't change from the state. Now the good news is we've increased our funding in FY26 and 27 due to the guarant these new guarantees and the growth supplement, but the next two years if the governor's proposal stays in place, we lose all that funding anyway and over a four-year period we end up back to where we started. So it it looks good for two years.
115And I think that was the whole strategy is look, hey school districts, we're going to give you more money as long as you just don't argue about the fair school funding plan where for us fund the fair school funding plan. We get funded for every student that we educate or I should not every button seat but every student that we that is um in the formula we get but we get we get paid for them, right? in this in this case does away with that and said, "Hey, here's the money you got last year. We'll give you the same amount. You get a little bit more money because you have more students." Now, I'll accept the $20 per student this year and 30 next year, but it's not it's not moving the it's not moving
116the needle. So, that's that's where that's the budget side of it. So, we end up next two years better than the governor's budget, but not where we would have been with the fair school funding plan. So under so right now our state share is you said 20% 20% going down to 11% in 2028. How is that how quickly does that occur? Is that you know is it kind of 20% 20% does it start to step down or it steps down? Yes. Evenly you think? I mean well rough. I think with with the with the house plan it's it's slower and then it drops off. It's slower and it stops off because you go from this funding level then all of a sudden your guarantee goes away and you drop. So you get a million dollars
117more this year this year and then drops by a million dollars those two years at the same time our enrollment's going up under the house plan. Under the House plan. Okay. Is there is there any chance uh from what you've since you and Tom have been down there that the Senate sees the fallacy of the House proposal and we'll go back to properly funding the fair school funding formula? Give me a week and I'll answer that. Okay. Um, we actually have Wood County Treasures have um got uh Representative um Gabberon um Senator Gabberon and um Representative Gmbari and a couple others meeting with us in Bowling Green next week. Oh, cool. We're hoping to have a united front have a conversation with them. Now, be completely honest. um my opinion, you know, Senator Gabron has
118not necessarily been listening in in the past, but again, maybe United Front, they'll get it that this is absolutely in insane. You'll put more money towards Brown Stadium than you are going to public education. The the House has already voted on this, so that's that ship is sailed. It's the House is the House is sailed. It's not backing up. It's our only hope is to get enough pressure on the Senate to get some kind of compromise. Yeah. No. Yeah. Yeah. So, so just to clarify, so there's this plan that somewhat benefits us next year that the House has passed. I'm unclear and I realize it's only a two-year plan. Check your language on benefit a little bit. Yeah. Well, when you compare it when you compare to what the fair school funding would have been,
119correct? It is far from a benefit. There would be a slight increase from Yes. but not what we would have gotten under a fully funded fair school funding. Yes. I I'm just unclear. Thank you for that clarification. It's very pretty fire. Pretty big. Yeah. Um I'm unclear what their plan is in fiscal year 28 and 29. No, there's no plan. Okay. Just wanted to make that clear. The election cycle is every two years. I think one of the things that that is a worry is over the last several years you've heard a chorus of legislators in Columbus saying we need to get rid of guarantees. You can go on guarantees for different reasons, but the bulk of the guarantees are a result of declining enrollment and a commitment by legislators to keep funding at it
120as it is even though you're losing students. And so it's interesting because you know it goes back to I think what what you were asking um about you know what what happens in the future they detest and I think that's probably too easy too light of a word guarantees but they're putting everybody on guarantees for the next two years. So two years from now are those guarantees going to be there? I think that I think that's where the rug's going to get pulled out and I think that that's that's a concern. Um it almost creates a situation where you can justify getting rid of the guarantees because of the use and how much they're going to cost for people that are on the guarantees for not the same reason we are. So Randy talked about
121the state share. So you think about $1 of revenue coming into the district and in 2017 um I'm sorry 2014 27 cents of every dollar that came into Parisburg schools came from the state of Ohio. Um in 2023 19 cents of every dollar came in. And now we're talking about in 2028 11 cents of every dollar coming in is is coming from the state of Ohio. So we talk about being a destination district, but we also need to talk about being a donor district. I just once I started seeing all of this falling apart in in the state legislature, my heart really went out to you and uh Cup and Patterson and all the other people that worked so hard for so many years since the legislature wouldn't do it to come up with the
122fair school funding formula and and I still remember Teresa Federer's words when she was still senator. Okay. Um that she she was rejecting what they were trying to do by putting it in the bianium budget because it needed to be a bill. And this is exactly why it should have remained a standalone bill so that they couldn't monkey with it and destroy it at the end of the race. Is just this is hard to even comprehend or understand why they're doing this. I just I just don't get it. And I I cannot imagine that you have any hair left that you haven't pulled it all out at this point. What's sad is um it impacts the students because we have a formula right now that Randy can take a look at and say based on
123the number of students, the number of teachers we have, the average salaries, we can kind of ballpark where we're going to be in the future. It's transparent. It is justifiable. It's based on what students needs, what their needs are. It it accounts for counseling. It accounts for all the different activities, student safety, all the things that we've talked about. Yeah. That it it factors those things. And now we're going back to residual budgeting, which is let's just throw some dollars at it. Don't know how long we're going to keep these dollars. We don't know what, you know, what we're basing those numbers on. And we start moving back to that realm, which which isn't a formula at all. Um and um be sure that Randy can forecast five years out. Well, we'll talk about that
124too, but again is we we need to be able to plan, right? We talk about we're going to need facilities, but we talk about levies. How can you plan, you know, uncertain? There's always been uncertainty in, you know, when more than two years out, but this is makes it even worse. And and then on top of that, this is complicated. Don't don't try to read all this right now, but essentially what they said, hey, school districts, you have too much money in your cash balance. And there are some school districts that have over 100% of of their annual, you know, um expenses in cash balance, but some of them are funding buildings and doing some things with it. But essentially say, hey, if you got more than 30% cash balance and on June 30th, the
125tax budget commission can reduce your levies to make sure you get down to that level the next year. So they could reduce taxes, which is I get it. reducing taxes is a good thing if you're, you know, your homeowner paying those property taxes, but then next year if you're below that, are they going to raise the taxes again? So, you're you're you're up and down. So, you're trying to plan levy cycles and you know, traditional levies, we know what happens is you start off with a high balance and over time it goes down because you're collecting the same amount of money, but your expenses are going up. Then you ask for a new levy, it goes down and you ask more. This what this does is defeats that whole levy planning cycle essentially what I
126mean I'm going to be a little facicious here you got to go to the voters every two years to ask you know you're not going to be able to plan out ahead and that's so right now does this directly impact us no I mean we were at 36% at the end of 2024 we're going to be at that 30% or less this year and lower for the remainder remainder of our forecast but if the if let's say the board wanted to and and our public said, "Hey, instead of a $14 million levy, we understand we want programs back, right? So, we're going to do $18 million." I'm just throwing a number out there. Our cash balance goes up above 30%. It could be cut even though that was the will of the voters. So, what
127they're doing is they're they're they're superseding the will of the voters at this point. So, that was my next question. It sounds from the way you were describing it that they're going to tell the voters you were right or wrong. I I don't understand how they can go against the will of the voters on that. Well, it again it's it comes down to this Sue and it it's fact is property tax hackes are a challenge. We all know that, right? It's a difficult thing, you know, particularly with valuations increasing, you know, fast in a lot of areas that they're trying to find a way to mute that impact. And I get that. Well, find another system then, right? Because it's the system that we have that that the general assembly has put in place. We
128didn't choose this system that was put in place. There's other options that that we can't do, right? We can't pass a sales tax to fund schools. The state could, right? State could has other options that we don't have. So, the point is this is all about trying to mute the impact of valuation increases. I I believe and and and the thing that public schools have too much money sitting in the bank. And I can tell you anyway, I get I I've seen some county balances and how come they don't look at the counties the same way? That's another Now I'm just whining. So, Have they gone enough into the weeds to know what what point in time they would evaluate that cash standpoint? Well, they're they're looking at in the fall, right? So, the idea
129is in the first year they look at it in October and other than that it be by August 15th. So, do we go back to our spaghetti charts? When do we have our highest cash balance? Because, right, we don't recognize our income. It's June 30th. They're going to look at the June 30th. They'll look at the June 30th. Okay. Which is not our lowest of the year, right? As we've talked about, theoretically, and I've talked to one district, they need a cash balance at 50%. They're in the same situation we are with cash flow, but even worse, they need 50%. Cover them through a few months worth of expenses. Yeah. Because of because of January and February. The state looks at it at that point in time. They'll take that money back. Yeah. Exactly. Okay.
130Exactly. The last thing I want to say, this seems like it's innocuous, but um there's at least one representative that hates the five-year forecast and wants to reduce it to three years. Yay. And I'm not sure why, but in my mind, obviously, the farther you go out, you know, the more, you know, the crystal ball is murky, but how are we going to plan? We can still do fiveyear forecasts, right? I still have 10-year cash flows. I'm I'm doing that. But the three to five year period is I don't I don't know what the understand what the benefit is, but we're going to fight this. Five years makes sense because it's at least one levy cycle. And the other thing you get into is bargaining agreements. Normally they're three years, right? So in the second
131year of the bianium, if you're having a a contract discuss, how can you certify a contract when you only have two years? You can't. So, it eliminate bargaining agreements to two years theoretically. Now, that's not their I don't know what their intent is. Um, but again, it's one of those things that we're going to we're going to fight back on a little bit. I think it's a great planning tool, right? We have this conversation every year about the forecast and it's an important conversation and I think that's one of those things. So, those are the three high points or low points in the in the House in the House substitute bill at this point. If there's any questions on that, we probably beat that one. I'm going to keep moving. Susan's gonna speed it up.
132I saw the look. Okay, our next big our next big adventure is the five-year forecast in the work session in May. I'll be going through this, but I I wanted to share quickly with you my my base assumptions. See if I have any feedback because as I've mentioned many many times, this the assumptions drive the numbers. The numbers don't drive the assumptions. So, I'm just going to kind of go through this line by line quickly. property taxes. Nothing new here. We've we've assumed one new 1% new construction for the last several years, and that's about what the trend is. We have an update in 2026, which is based on sales data, and I've run this by the the county auditor. 12% seems reasonable at this point on that tangible personal property tax. That's public utility
133stuff. We don't expect any new pipelines or substations, so expect them to continue to appreciate. Um, and this is based on trend and income tax annual growth of 6 and a half% and that again is based on trend. I don't have any any other data to say that that's going to that's going to change it. It's been solid for the last five six years. state funding right now I'm building using the substitute bill because I don't have any other data to put in there and it it's not a huge deal but enrollment growth I'm being very conservative at 1% it really doesn't right now not having a formula it doesn't really swing things very much and all the revenue essentially being flat and as our cash balance drops we'll see less earnings on investment so
134those are the main assumptions on revenue anything strike the board as being out of left field, right field, center field in the dugout. Okay, where out the baseball analogy expense side? This is where we spend most of our time. So going forward, obviously the reduction in force as it's been outlined and that's continuing through the the forecast. Those positions are not coming back. Right now I have our pea contract two and a half% base increases in the next two years and 2% in the next following two years. and and those base increases are on the assumption that we pass a levy, right? If we don't pass a levy, obviously in those outer years that that 2% probably goes away. Probably it does go away, right? If we're not passing a levy, but I'm kind of
135assuming that we would if we pass a levy, we're going to do something. And just to point out, um the area average is over 3%. So we're still well below what is happening in the area and across the state in terms of base increases for staff. And then salary freeze for exempt and admin in this next fiscal year. Benefits um medical premiums we had a 5% increase I should say calendar year because our premium our our premiums are on calendar year. So, we increased our medical premiums 5% this year on a we had a bad year from a claim standpoint and I'm projecting 7% next year and in future years 10% which is more than national average. Now, I'm hope I'm wrong on that because this is really our fastest growing area. Um, and the
136other thing is no change in retirement. One of the things that's happened, STRS looks like they're going to reduce reducing the um retirement to 32 years, which doesn't ne it impacts our severance, but not necessarily impacts, you know, board contributions to retirement, that kind of thing. So, you know, obviously we can I'm just trying to be realistic with the with these numbers. You know, to say that we give zero is probably not realistic unless we don't pass levies. I mean, what's the reaction there? That's probably in my mind the most controversial thing I have on here. Okay, I think silence is moving. Um, and then everything else really is based on inflationary in um increases except where we have reductions. We have some reductions in purchase services built into the plan and supplies and materials
137and then kind of inflation driving other things. And you will see a slight increase in capital outlay because bus lease payments we're going to do out of general fund because we'll be saving fuel costs and bus maintenance out of general fund. So we're we're picking that up. And right now we've delayed the need to buy a portable classrooms at least for a year because of redistricting and maybe another maybe two years. So just to be clear, are the trailer purchases within the five-year forecast or just pushed into another fiscal year? Pushed in another fiscal year. So like fiscal 28 or 27 I think the first sounds like another one year with 27 and 28 we would have significant purchases because we're talking about potentially trailers that we have to have restrooms and that kind of
138thing. So the last thing I'll just I'll finish here on the on the agenda is the fund of transfer for the severance. I just wanted to comment a couple things since the agenda went out. One change is um we've we have 14 confirmed retirements. We've got two more that I've been alerted to. That could bring up our severance to about $600,000 this year. And with the reduction of the the um service agreement, STRS, is Don still here? Is that seven more people potentially qualify? Yes. So potentially, I'm not saying we'd get seven more retirements, but that's the why we carry the re that the reserve in that severance fund because we're going to put 300 in, but obviously double that's going to come out. We've been putting 300 in for few years now. Few since
139I've been here. Yeah. Yeah. Three years now. So anyway, that's that's rushing through. And any questions on that? A lot to talk about, I know. Yeah. you were you were owed. Well, these meetings run long, but uh so we before we move to 8.5, just to make sure, are there any questions that we haven't covered for Mr. Drew on any of the finance reports? Okay, so we have um 8.5 to approve agenda items 8.2 through 8.4. You skipped seven, six. Oh, do I need to Oh, let me refresh because I'm on the wrong numbers. Is that right? Do we get it right now? Oh, there's there's seven because of because we moved that one out. I refreshed. All right. Um, so we're on 7.5. That includes 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4 that we need to approve.
140Is there a motion to approve? So move. Second. Missy, Mr. Bennington. Any discussion or questions? Mr. Dur, roll call, please. Miss Mankey, yes. Mr. Bennington, yes. Miss Lammer, yes. Miss Roland Miller, yes. Now we move to 7.6. Finance committee minutes. Additional um information from Miss Mankey or Mr. Bennington. I'll give Oh, you want to start? I'll give a little color on the operational levy discussion that was had in that, you know, in that meeting. And um, you know, under the the theory of if you want to get to a better answer, ask better questions. The meeting was probably more in line with what questions do we need to start to bring forward to this board to start answering what the tone and tenor of that operating levy will look like. And we talked, you know,
141some of the things we talked about tonight. What are the results of the PI levy going to be? What's the sentiment of the community is a part of that and um what does the board plan to do if that levy fails? I think we've addressed that tonight. Um how much do we need to operate the district over the next four or five or six years or whatever the tenor of this levy needs to be. uh question I like how much cash do we want to have left over at the end of whatever we decide to do because if there is any type of little light in our current situation it's that we did have a cash reserve so we weren't doing we've put off cuts we didn't have to do the full boat of cuts
142we could pull from a cash reserve to get us by a little bit and then what we talked about tonight you know what is the state funding impact going to be on this budget stuff so no recommendations per se tonight just um starting to try and get a clear picture of what we need to think about as we move into, you know, May and June. Fair. What What did I miss? Fair. Um, I think I think it was really taking a hard look at the facts of what it takes to run the district. Um, one number just to think about is, um, salary increases are approximately $2 million a year. So, if you start to throw that into the mix, how much do we need? Um the the budget, the state budget, that's always a
143problem every two years. You can't outrun that. Um the funding as in the fair school funding. Um as a as a taxpayer, everybody should be really upset with this. Um, over my years on school boards, I remember sitting over in Port Clinton listening to Randy Gardner talk about this and how we were putting all these groups together and really looking at everything it took to make us allow a school to function no matter what size. And if you were a business person and you spent all this time and effort and money to develop a plan that was very comprehensive and then you decided you weren't going to implement it, what kind of business person would you be? How successful would your business be? I think we need to start going back to our legislators and
144asking them the question, why did you spend the time on this if you're not going to implement it and help us run efficiently for the future? We're not just talking for us to get by. We're talking about your f future workforce, the education in the state. Why are you trying economic development if you don't have the workers educated for the future? Thank you. Any other comments from the minute um meeting? I'll refer back to Ry's hourlong presentation on everything else. Okay. It's like you were there. All right. So, we're going to move into community engagement. um 8.1 uh we did host the two forums uh in March and I we do not I do not have the report yet. I hope to get that this week and I can share that out but I wanted
145to to have us kind of pause and you know one of the things that I keep hearing is that you know we're listening but we haven't heard anything back from the board. So, I guess it's time for us to um continue to listen, but also to start uh speaking about what we've heard. Um I have some kind of reflections and thoughts about that that I'd like to share, but I also wanted to, you know, kind of open up. We've had a lot of between the PI levies. Um I know that I've been purposefully meeting with multiple people every week out in the community to try to find out what's what's going on. So, I wanted to kind of just open up to hear um what kind of you know what we're hearing over the last
146couple months and kind of discuss where we want to go next where I can start. Um I I think one of the things that as I've talked to people as I listened at the forum um I was at the Wednesday not the Saturday. I think they were slightly different but it sounds like most of the same themes that came out. Um almost every person I've listened to supports public education. Um almost every person seems to want to ensure that every child reaches their greatest potential. uh they're concerned about how we're going to do that in the future with um having needed to cut the budget. Uh and I've heard a kind of universal shared belief that a positive future of the district is crucial for the success of the broader community. That Purisburg as a
147city, as the township, as the general area, um relies on this on this school district for its success. Um I have to say and I want to share um and this is what I've really been struggling a lot with over the last couple months. Um whenever I've talked to people and I've bumped into random neighbors that I've never talked to before. Um for some reason people seem to know that we're on the schoolboard meeting even though our school board even though last year I seem to not be known as being on the school board. Uh many community members immediately start talking about their concerns and alarm of how we're behaving as a community. Um I hear that there's a lot of people that don't like the tone that didn't come to the forum because they
148didn't want um to kind of be subjected to some of the mean spirit that's out there and the blaming that's going on. Um, a vast majority of the people that I talk to know that the messages of blame are not fair or accurate, but they're just scared and rightly so to kind of put themselves out there to try to speak to the people who are yelling the loudest. Um, I think in talking to people, there's a great deal of concern about the next steps and about how we as a community and especially within the district are going to talk about our future. Um, I think we're hearing I'm starting to hear from people outside the district that there is concern um, you know, they're concerned about the schools. I was talking to someone whose um,
149son is moving into the area and there's some concerns about the school, but they still know that we're one of the top districts in the state. it's that they're not sure they want to move to Parisburg. That seems to be fairly unwelcoming right now. Um, so I the the concerns that I'm hearing go beyond the district into how are we as a community actually going to get together to talk in a way that addresses the real issues in front of us. Um, one of the, you know, skills, and you all know this because every once in a while I reference it, I realize, but I'm trained in conflict management, and primarily I'm pulled into situations where usually one person is is being blamed for the complicated issues that are entwined within the organization. And my
150job as a conflict mediator is to go in and unravel the issues and look at the issues and not just blame people or pin it all on one or two people in an organization. Um it's an easy button to blame and it doesn't help us address the issues. And what I'm hearing from people is that they want to talk about the issues, but the blaming and the mean-spirited part of the that part of our community right now is thwarting that conversation. And so I think, you know, we've really looked at how we can better engage with the community. I think that, you know, we still have more work to do. Um, I'm really grateful for the people who did come to the two forums and share. Again, they were um, you know, we'll talk about
151this in a little bit, the people we interviewed for the to be candidates for the school board. Everybody and every one of us can state there's so many amazing things happening here and here are challenges. We know that there are challenges in front of us. Um, I think the culture of of kind of blaming in our community is eroding our community and I think that people outside this community are recognizing that and I'm not sure that we are sometimes within the district. I I want to be just really blunt and and uh I'm talking around this. I want to be very clear that as a school board member uh responsible for the employment of our treasurer and superintendent, I support Mr. Drewer and Mr. Hustler um 100%. I they are exemplary outside of this district.
152I I sometimes think like Mr. Drewer pointed out that we're not always good inside this district of recognizing the blessings that we have. Um, and the two of them without question for me are exceptional. Um, just talk to someone outside of our district. I am very concerned about the misinformation and the false accusations that have been leveled um in our community engagement sessions. Um, I'm also really, and I think this is what disheartens me the most is that in the communications that I've had with people in the conversations, if if people repeat some of that blaming or accusation or the misinformation, um, when I push them, they really don't have any facts. It's just kind of assumed now in our community. And I that's what concerns me the most that we no longer um are
153kind of stepping back talking about the issues, talking about the facts, but we're just jumping to conclusions that have been yelled the loudest. Um I I'm really concerned about how we can come together to talk about this operating levy. Um because the students deserve that. our financial stability and the decisions being made at the state affect the sustainability. This should be the number one thing we're talking about. And yet, when I'm out in the community, it's not. Um, we need to I I just really feel strongly right now we need to change that conversation uh for the benefit of our community, but even more importantly, for the benefit of our students. I'm sorry this is long and rambling. Um, I've been really struggling with uh conversations that I've been having with people over the last
154couple months. And um, I've been listening. I will continue to listen. But we've got to change the conversation. We've got to change the conversation so that we're talking about the stuff that really matters. That was I'm sorry. Did I interrupt? No, I'm done. Um, that was something that Eric and I heard because we were at the Saturday session and it was one of the things that was very glaringly different from what we have been hearing and that was a lady who stood up at the end and spoke um and said we have to do and I wasn't sure who the we was. Was the we us sitting up here at the front or was it we as a community? So that I cannot clarify, but she was adamant that we have to do a better
155job at nipping in the bud the misinformation that gets out there because and to me that made sense because when when you're not living and breathing this thing called a school district, Tom and Randy live and breathe it. the people at the back of the room. Y'all live and breathe it. We're visiting. We're we're guests of the community to be here to visit. So even we don't live and breathe it, which is clear by the probably the number of questions we constantly ask you. But that was I mean everybody had good thoughts. I thought I thought that forum and the way um he ran that forum was really very fascinating and very instructive and and I I was just super impressed with him. Um but that was something that really stood out to me. It
156kind of addresses what you're saying. Miss Will Miller, I appreciate your comments and I'll join you in giving my you know full 100% support behind Mr. Hasser and Mr. drew your for you know several reasons. when I think about you know just the metrics and look at the data driven type of um information that we get you look at our performance index you look at our rating in the state you look at the success rate of our children that come out of this by every metric that support is deserving um when I hear you know when I'm out in the community and there is a lot of disappointment and there is a there is a testing of the trust that it manifests itself certainly in three failed levies I understand that. But I don't recall
157them voting on those levies. That was a vote that was taken by board members. Board members decided what levies to put on and Mr. Hoser and Mr. Jurer went out there and and executed our playbook, not necessarily their playbook. So, I just want to make that fine point that we own those decisions. Personally, I own that decision and what we did the last three times. And I'll be reflective of that beyond my board service here. So the other thing that I point to that I just keep in mind and even without children in the district anymore, great things happen in these school buildings every single day. They happen thanks to the dedication of these amazing teachers that we that we have, some that we saw just tonight. It comes through in the incredible support for
158these children by their parents, guardians, grandparents that all contribute to their success and most importantly through the success and the hard work of these very students that are out there realizing their full potential. So yes, there are there have been certainly well publicized um recent issues in the district and a gentleman the other day, somebody who I really respect and he's, you know, very measured in his his his support for this district. It is equally he's not shy to point out the the the bad stuff. He's he's still a supporter. He's like, when are we going to hear good news about this district? And I reflected on that. That's a great question. when am I going to hear good news about this district? And I I said, "It's out there every day. It's where you
159look at it. You look at the moments that matter out on that Facebook page, you know, they they exist. They're they're in the the the what's going on in recesses and in the classrooms and the well the the equally well publicized uh success of our teachers, uh Mr. Stein, Miss Harper, there the the the good news is out there. It's where you put your focus. And that's not saying that we can't be we need to be transparent. And one thing I've learned in the eight years that I've been involved with this district is that when it makes a mistake, it fesses up to it and then it drives towards improvement every time. And I continue to see that in this district. So, you thought you were rambling. I know I'm rambling. So, I'll stop. Um,
160I think going forward and and Susan and I sat down and talked about this quite a bit. Um, and in the past we've always done grassroots, but it it's time for us to change direction on how we handle this because what we've been doing in the past, let's face it, it hasn't been successful in getting us where we need to go. Um, but I think we have and really I mean this is pretty much Susan. She's been brainstorming this a lot. Um, looking at what we're going to do to move forward and just realizing that it's us as a board going out into the community and getting amongst the community members and having those conversations. It's not just having everybody come here and see us. We know that we're going to have to step forward
161and get in and have conversations with you. Yeah, I I I I agree with that. I mean, it is getting out there into the into the community events and into there are other leaders in this in this community. And I think about things like, you know, you got to be invited to them. And you know, I'm not the most interesting guy to get invited to stuff, but you know, Rotary Exchange Club, um, Chamber of Commerce, there are there are organizations out there that would love to go in there and tell our story to when I think about how we take that stuff out in addition to the other stuff that we've tried in the past. Well, you did have in your message to us, Susan, um, the Saturday morning coffees, and I had to smile
162at that because Gretchen and I both thought of that. Um, I can't even remember how many years ago that was. And we got zero attendance. We tried it four or five times um, and we got zero attendance. Saturday mornings, athletics, there's lots going on. Um, probably not the way anybody would want to spend a Saturday morning. Oh, gee, let's get up and go talk to school board members. Probably not high on their on their list of things to do, but we did tr we did try it. Now, since I can't remember when we did that, things are a lot different now. Um, you know, we are it it's like a a crack in the human historical timeline. COVID, everything's different since then. This was definitely precoid. So, I would say that that would not be
163a bad idea to try. And I liked your idea of of keeping it at the same place. Um, I don't know how you do coffee at the library, but then or what the cost of that would be, but I think that that's I think that's worth worth a try. But as Channel 11 pointed out, we haven't had a great um turnout at the PI levies, but and we and we don't know why. We don't know why. the the the tours that we did when we were doing the Bond Lovevy thing, we have what maybe 15 20 people there until we realized it was mostly the same 15 and 20 people and every they got a great tour of the district, but they were largely the same group of people running through. So, I enjoyed talking
164to them and getting to know some of them a little bit. Um I and I I think it was great that you took your PI levy presentation and put it on the website. People just once they get home, they want to stay home. They don't want to get out. Is that how we have to I prefer face to face. I I really don't like being on my computer anymore during a day than I have to. It's just really not a favorite thing for me. um I would fail as a teenager these years. So I'm I think it's I think it's worth a try to I mean I I don't know did would would those form reports give us any indication is how or what they want us to do differently because we've got we've got
165the videos on the website. We've done tours. We've gone out there. We've held open sessions. Uh, one of the things in looking at community engagement, we've been um using a resource from the Illinois School Board and they talk about community engagement isn't I I think we do a lot of the there's four types of community engagement and one of them is information sharing. So, for instance, I put the PI levy piece that's more into information sharing. So, we're offering out um the other types are more on the receiving or more in the collaborative type. And I think to set up some opportunities to be on the receiving side. Um you know, again, maybe people aren't going to come. I guess I'm at the point and what I think Laura and I were brainstorming through were
166what are all the different ways that we could make ourselves available to people and then see kind of what happens and then as we move ahead to establish more of the collaborative types of community engagement where we really are whether it's at um you know existing groups that are already out there that we can go into and say what do you think about this um you know whatever the next one is before we make decisions. Um, I think I I think we're looking for to to create a broader type of community engagement. Um, and again, trial and error. You're right. We could sit for six months in a row and have nobody come in, but we'd have a nice conversation during that time period. Um, and and we decide that that's not going to work.
167Farmers market, you know, how do we set up at the farmers market? Um, are there I It's hard. I feel like people want to know more information. Is it more doing podcasts? Is it putting videos out there? Um, is it us communicating through the community email that the district maintains? Um, is it us putting information out there? I think that's the we want to try a lot of different ways just because we don't we don't know right now in this new world that we live in what's going to work. But um you know one of the things that we've struggled through is that that cry for more transparency and I think one of the things the discussions we've kind of come to is that the there's a lot of information out there. I think it's
168helping people narrow down their focus as to what what it is that they are really looking to know. Yeah, that was that the theme of that comment came up in the Saturday session which I which I found interesting which you know struck me. We we strive to have some pretty you have some robust conversations in this meeting which translates into beheaded to three four hours tonight and a lot of people are like I don't have three four hours to kind of sift through and figure that out. So there's there there's something in there with directing the communication more specifically. Well, I think um the email that I sent out with kind of the brainstorm ideas, I think um with community engagement that Miss Mankey and I will continue to kind of run with these. If
169you have any that you want to squash, please tell us now. If there are ideas that you have that we have not imagined yet, if the community has ideas that we have not imagined yet, um we are so open to how we can better engage with the community and talk about the issues that really are faced in the district right now. So not to bel labor that anymore so we can move on. Um there are minutes there from our meeting back on the 8th. I don't have anything to add to that. if Miss Mankey, I don't know if you did. Um, and we're into 9.1 board committee and discussion. Uh, we did have a student achievement meeting on April 1st. Yeah. Uh, it was it was a fairly brief meeting as far as student achievement
170goes. So, I will try and be brief here, but the main main focus and it was a question from Miss Roland Miller from kind of what we're hearing out in the community is how are we serving the gifted students with these cuts that are coming? um you know talking about those programs that are most impacted. ELA is most impacted with the loss of of uh well the loss of a pullout gifted program, you know. So certainly working on allocating what resources we have um to shifting time with a with a resource we're sharing with Anthony Wayne to help support our teachers with gifted students and I imagine that's quite a few to be able to deliver those type of educational opportunities to the students while they're in the classroom. So it is going to look
171different but the district is striving to make sure that that support is still there because again under the in the state of Ohio we just have to identify gifted service not necessarily so but it's still this district's goal to provide that type of service as we can with the new funding. Um, elementary update. I know there's been talk about, you know, looking at the the calendar committee, looking at moving to a trimester. Uh, I think that's in our consent agenda. Consent agenda. Thank you. Could you explain that? That kind of caught me off guard. What What is the Is that just for preschool or is that for all elementary? So, that would be for for all elementary students. um you know transitioning from the um quarters that we have now to to trimesters. Um Joe
172um Mr. Schwarz Miller and Mr. Sarns uh Nikki Mashinsky, Miss Nashinsky did a presentation um to elementary families just last week where they kind of highlighted, you know, the reasons why and and it there's a couple different um points that I think are pretty important. One is um when you're offering feedback to families about how their children are progressing um and the meaningful type of feedback that you're providing the trimester in their minds seems to line up better with giving the families that important feedback whereas the quarters it doesn't really align very well with you know when you have that information available about their children. So um so I think that that is one of the major proponents as to um you know what is being collected what is being shared and the timing of
173that fitting those natural breaks you know when it comes to elementary student learning versus you know we've always done it this way and every 90 days you get a report card even though in elementary world there there's a lot more going on and um in the high school secondary world those quarters that that really what drives it, but in the elementary world that doesn't really fit with the mastery piece of what they're trying to accomplish. So, we can um take the information that they provided or have them come to a meeting and talk about that. So, that'd be fun. And I think the item right under there the parents or the progress reports is they created a progress report that would reflect to the parents accurately um kind of what wis Whiten wisdom has is
174teaching, how is it teaching um and being able to relay to the parents what the students are learning that as they created that feedback progress report that would go to the parents related to witten wisdom. It was clear that the that that arc of learning that Mr. Hustler was re uh talking about kind of fit into more of a trimester that to meet in the October parent teacher would be too early in that first um kind of arc of the Wen Wizard curriculum. Doing the math, it's lengthening the the time between each shortening the hysteria between another grading period, another testing. I'm I in the elementary. Yes, I would be all for that if that's that would makes a lot of sense. More or good or what else did I want to pull out of
175here real quick? Grading practices committee for in the secondary CL secondary buildings grading practice committee continues to discuss the core beliefs with their focus group. Um, interesting enough, taking a look at some of the instructional materials, you know, really taking a deep dive into into certain, uh, ELA, social studies, other materials, uh, to develop a a learning rubric. Um, you know, to put forward a public facing reason why, uh, certain materials are taught. Uh, and then we got a reading and science update. 80 86% of uh uh professional development professional development has been complete. So getting there getting there. All right. We um don't believe policy committee needed to meet again. Operations meeting was cancelled. Uh so I think unless there's are there other issues for board discussion if not I'll move us into the
176consent agenda which is now items 11 through 16. Just wanted to double check that. So items 11 through 16 in the updated agenda include everything from a lot of board minutes. Um, we have some resignations of some longtime staff members. Mr. Hustler, if you want to comment on that. Um, sure. We're we're starting to get into that that time when we're seeing resignations and um first um not necessarily a long-term uh staff member, but certainly one that would had a very impactful um uh very impactful time here at Parisburg. and and Courtney uh Upupel or Courtney Parr our our transportation director were um you know accepting her resignation today as she's um moving into the private sector in and around transportation um for schools and um so right now we have James operations um director
177will be taking over transportation kind of a group project uh we'll be posting that position and and um you know we wish her well and appreciate the time that she she had with us here in in Parisburg. So, um so I know that is um you know that's it. Um Randy talked about the the severance and with retirements and things that are happening with that there could be some more potential uh retirements. There's also a number of resignations that of of staff that aren't um that are, you know, leaving the area or in some cases leaving education. Um and so you see this kind of a split screen happening where you have resignations of of staff who who are, you know, taking other jobs or their families relocating or, you know, we had somebody who's
178going back to school full-time. And um and then later on in the consent agenda, you see people that are being pulled off the um you see people that are being pulled off of the the riff list or recalled. So as individuals are um you know leaving the district, that does open the door in some cases for staff to come back. So you'll you'll see that that recall happening. We're adjusting the list. So, as as you know, those retirements roll in, you know, hopefully we'll we'll have more of that. So, to retain the staff that we have um as well. So, anything anyone wants to pull from the consent agenda? Hey, we're approving the graduates. That's a good sign. No, I just I just want to comment about Courtney. I think it's a a huge loss
179to our district that we're losing one of the best transportation administrators in the state and going to the private sector. It's painful to say. Yeah. And I know and you know we have a couple of of secretaries um uh that are um leaving also our transportation dispatcher um and cafeteria manager. Uh so so there there is a number of names and I know there's a lot of names here. We're just pulling out a few but each and you know each one um you know we we appreciate what they've done up to this point for for many of these folks. And you'll see in 16.7 the calendar um as the amendment that of the trimester parent teacher conference as well as two moving twoour delays to um four dates that are now going to be uh
180non-school days. All right. If nothing else in the consent agenda, I'll look for a motion to approve the consent agenda items 11 through 16. So moved. Second. Mr. Mr. Bington, Miss Larur, Mr. Jur, roll call, please. Mr. Bennington, yes. Miss Lmer, yes. Miss Mankey, yes. Miss Roland Miller, yes. All right. With the energy we have left, we have some great um we have two great motions to still consider tonight. So, number 17 is to approve the certified continuing contracts for the educators we heard presentations about during the recognition period. um listed in 17.1. We have a motion to approve those five continuing contracts. So move. Second. Missy, Mr. Bennington, Mr. Drew. Roll call. Miss. Yes. Mr. Bennington. Yes. Miss Lair. Yes. Yes. I like that one. All right. Um we had no one sign up
181for public comments for items off the agenda. So, we move to number 19. Um, and I have just messed up my paper so much tonight. All right. So, I first we want to first express our gratitude to the 22 individuals who initially applied for the board seat that was opened. Um, this is the highest number of applicants we've ever received for a board vacancy in at least two decades and nearly three times the average. The average was around eight before. While two applicants ultimately withdrew, the remaining 20 all followed through with the interview process. Um, by policy, the board committed to interviewing every eligible applicant. We may need to reconsider that policy in the future. Um, these sessions were held in executive session as permitted by state law because they involved the appointment of a
182public official. Um, and I say this honestly, we can't overstate how encouraged we were by the caliber of applicants who came forward. Each person brought a unique perspective and a sincere desire to help our schools succeed. They were honest about the challenges facing our school district and offered meaningful ideas for how we could move forward together. um their dedication, all of their dedication to Parisburg schools and to public education was very clear. Um it's no secret that this was a pivotal moment for our school district. We spent a lot of time talking about the type of leader that we needed. We talked about the importance of advocating for public education, engaging with the broader community, helping to rebuild trust, and working with fellow board members and administrators in a thoughtful, collaborative, and solutionsoriented way. After
183careful consideration and by unanimous decision, the board has extended the invitation to Chris Anderson to serve for the completion of the term which will be through December 31st, 2025. Chris has lived in Parisburg for 15 years and brings with him deep experience in leadership, financial management, innovation, and strategic planning. He currently serves as chief technology officer at Asensus Specialties and I'm hoping I said that right and has a long track record of working across sectors to solve complex challenges. Just as importantly, he understands the critical role public schools play in shaping our students futures and strengthening our community. We are very confident that Chris will be a collaborative and thoughtful addition to the board and we are grateful for his willingness to serve. And so at this time I would like a motion to approve
184the resolution to appoint Chris Anderson to serve as a member of the board of education of Parisburg Exempted School District. So moved. Second. Mr. Bennington, Miss Lmer, the resolution is before us in 19.1. Any additional discussion? We need a date, effective date in the resolution. Today, okay, that's what I thought. Oh, yeah. No. Okay. Any other discussion or clarification questions? I didn't see a blank for that one. Well, I just I will to acknowledge the the the host of other incredibly qualified, talented, enthusiastic um candidates was appreciated and M. Roland Miller, I believe you and I both went through that process and both were not selected. And um so, you know, I guess the ask is please still stay in touch with and and serve this district because we certainly need the help in the
185hands and the hearts. So, I would like to add that I'm looking forward to the board member race this fall. It should be really interesting and I'm hoping again to see a a plethora of qualified candidates. Mr. Juror, call the question, please. Mr. Pennington, yes. Miss Lmer, yes. Miss Minky, yes. Miss Roland Miller. Yes. We'd like to welcome Chris Anderson to the board and um we thank you for stepping forward. I think at this time we are going to um provide the oath of office Mr. Drewer as so maybe in front of the flag or I think that's good. Yes. United States, the Constitution of the State of Ohio, the Constitution of the State of Ohio. I will faithfully and partially discharge my duties. And I will faithfully and partially discharge my duties. as a
186board of education member. as a board of education member and exempted school district, Ohio County, Ohio. To the best of my ability. To the best of my ability. In court. The law is now in effect. And accord until my successor is chosen and qualified. And until my successor is chosen and qualified. [Applause] What do we do? I'll come down and see you when you're done. You have water. Just please don't object to the adjournment. Yeah, just Hey, we kept it under three hours. I will not object to you. Okay. Um, with no other business before the board that I'm aware of, I will adjourn the meeting if there are no objections. Meeting adjourned. Welcome.