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Elyria Board of Education Meeting, June 25, 2025

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Source
YouTube / Elyria Schools Pioneer TV
Date
2025-07-07
Location
Lorain County, OH
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,391 words · about 8 min
Collected
2026-06-19

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001Rolling. I'd like to call our June 25th A City School Board meeting to order. Madam Treasurer, please call the role. Mrs. Siguin here. Mr. Chrisurfin here. Mr. Ghart here. Mr. Hower? Nope. Mr. Parker? Here. Okay. All rise for the pledge of allegiance, please. I pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, I'd like to introduce our board members. We have Brett Parker on my far right. I know I'm thirsty. I'm going to crack this one open. Um, Mr. Mike Gart to my immediate right. Vice President Annie Karstarin. Uh Len Hower is out of the country actually. Oh wow. And then we have our superintendent an Slash and our treasurer Colleen

002Ale. All right. Moving along. We have no board recognition, no presentations, visitors comments or none? Nope. No visitors comments. Right. All right. The meeting minutes have been posted. Do we have a motion to approve the meeting minutes? So move second. Second. All right. You do what you want. Okay, Colleen. Miss Garfin, I. Mr. Ghart, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mrs. Seuin, I. Motion carries. Uh, moving on to board of education. We have no board of education items. Treasurer items. Looks like we have a few. Yes, we have a couple treasurer action items. To accept the financial report for the month of May 2025, which includes all the bank reconciliation, investment report, and cash balance report as detailed below. To approve the attached list of purchase orders to comply with the district's purchasing procedures as below in

003the attachment and then to also approve the startup cash for fiscal year 26 of 1,200 for food service and 3,700 for athletics for their petty cash fund. All right. Thank you. Do we have a motion to approve the uh items recommended by the treasurer? So moved. Do we have a second? Okay. Madam treasurer, please call the role. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Gart, I. Miss Garfin, I. Mrs. Seuin, I. Any questions? All right. Moving along. Treasurer other. Yes. To appoint board members Miss Garfin and Mr. Gabart as primary representatives and then Mr. Parker, Mr. Hower, Mr. Sequin as alternatives mer expulsion hearing dated for Wednesday, July 16th at 4 p.m. at the admin building to authorize a treasurer to transfer funds from the general fund to the following programs to close out the fiscal year 25

004funds as detailed below. To approve the modifications of the final appropriations for fiscal year 25 as attached. To approve the temporary appropriations for fiscal year 26 as attached. and to approve the amended certificate of estimated resources for fiscal year 25 as attached. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the items recommended by the treasurer? I'll make the motion. Do we have a second? Sorry. Okay, we got a second. Madam treasure, please call the role. Mr. Grabart, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Sarfin, I. Mrs. Siguin, I. Um, treasurer report. I have a little report. So, there was a budget bill going on in Columbus and every time I was going to write a report, they kept modifying it and changing it. And so, what's going on is they're trying to do a a new tax

005reform um at the 11th hour. Depending on what comes out and what they approve, we might have a couple special meetings in July for our resolutions for our emergency levy and for the new money proposal, just because they change a couple things. We might have to change some of the how the resolutions are worded. So, I just want to give you a heads up, but I don't know until they actually pass it. Okay. Thank you. All right. Super superintendent action items. Thank you. First of all, to um let me make sure I'm getting this right because it's one page to authorize a food service vending agreement. Um then this one and the next one, they're for um catering we do to two other schools. Also to um approve the primary service agreement with the ESC

006we had to uh modify a few things. So that's an updated one. Also to approve the contract with unbudsman K3 for placement of students to approve the contract for uh with education alternatives for the education of students. We've placed also to approve the education alternative transportation agreement for 2526. And that concludes my action items. All right. Do we have a motion to approve the uh superintendent's action items? So move. Second. Please call the role. Mr. Garfin. I. Mr. Gabart. I. Mr. Parker. I. Mrs. Seuin. I. Motion carries. Superintendent. Other. No. But I will go ahead with personnel action items and I have a few introductions at the end. First of all, to approve the following certified job descriptions. Um, kudos to Mr. Newwork and everyone who helped. Uh, he's updating a lot of our job

007descriptions so that they definitely match the work that each employee is doing. So, those are up there for I think um just updating them is is what happened. Also to approve the retirement of the following certified staff. This is amended um from the original date. also to approve the appointment of the following EHS student workers um for the rentals at the PAC. Some are during the year, some are in the summer, but we have a a nice list. Also to approve the resignation of the athletic supplemental contract as listed below. Also to approve the unpaid leave of absence for the following classified staff member. To approve the appointment of the following classified staff members. [Applause] to approve the resignation of the following classified staff. To approve and nope, yeah, to approve the classified job descriptions,

008which um uh we had uh sent um to be updated as well. And I I sent you a little blurb about two of them that we updated and um worked with the union on for lead food prep and lead stock handler. also to approve theou that um is the agreement on those new lead positions to approve the resignation of the following certified staff members. Um we wishing them well. Most of them are going closer to home or um you know uh a different position in their home district. Also to approve the payment for the following supplemental other activities. To approve the following athletic supplemental contracts for um district and non-dist coaches for next year. To approve the supplemental contracts for the following certified staff. To approve the appointment of the following certified staff. As you

009can see, we're already getting our daily sublists and other hires going. It's that time of year. And that concludes all of my personnel action items. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the personnel items recommended by the superintendent? So move. Do we have second? Second. Madam treasure, please call the role. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Gart, I. Miss Garfin, I. Mrs. Sein, I. Motion carries. All right. If I could just introduce a few of our new staff members. First of all, we have Justin Bacon. He's our new speech and language pathologist at the village. Welcome, Justin. Kelsey Caldwell is a new uh English language language learner teacher in the district and she just How many years did you spend in Vietnam? Three in Vietnam. So, she just came back last week, I believe, with your

010family. So, welcome Kelsey. Then we have Jacob Gails who student taught actually with Megan Johnson at the high school. He's our new social studies teacher at the high school. Even though his dad is a lot older than I am, I did go to school with him at some point or another. Sorry, Todd. Um, and then Courtney Corsen, a fifth and sixth grade teacher at Northwood Middle. And did the other one come in? All right, good. Then and those are our new pioneers and I know they're going to love it. So, welcome everyone. And then on to my superintendent report. Uh first of all, she's not going to tell you, but today um Colleen is 52. Oh my god. Right. 29. She's 21. 25. 25. No, 41. Just put it on. She's 41 today. Yeah. 41.

011So, happy birthday. Thank you, Miss Treasurer. Um, and I won't sing cuz that's not something anybody wants to hear. Um, just a few items as as Colleen mentioned, the budget bill. Um, it's been on the top of all of our minds. Um, it it um unfortunately I I don't know that it's going to be all good news, but we're keeping our fingers crossed. I will tell you that um some of the local legislators have have done a lot to try and help out and have been in constant contact. Um all the superintendents and treasurers have been sending reports down for them to use. Um but fingers crossed that um some good things will happen for K12 education um in the future. So they're supposed to pass it by the 30th, which is Mon Monday, I

012believe. So, we've had it where it hasn't happened then, but we'll keep our fingers crossed. Like I said, also um as you can see, um kudos to all the the departments and building principles and and especially to the HR department. We are hiring like crazy. Um and uh uh good thing good uh a lot of good new pioneers and you know we're losing a few here and there but um some of them are becoming administrators somewhere else and and challenging themselves. So that's all good and some are going to their home districts and I know what that's like. You like to work where where you went to school. Um and then uh finally uh just want to give a shout out to our operations staff. the um the heat. Even though the buildings are air

013conditioned, I can tell you it's hot. Um working and they're out mowing the lawns and and painting the fences and waxing the floors and everything they do to help us get ready for next year. And just a kudos out to them. Uh Mr. Kokai was supposed to be here, but unfortunately the mulch delivery truck put it in his neighbor's driveway instead of his. Oh jeez. So, he was going home to move mulch so that they could pull in their own driveway. Yes. Um, so he he was going to be here cuz I I did want to give them a shout out. So, good stuff. I don't Mr. Hyde isn't here, right? No. Okay. So, that's it. We're just uh getting ready. Okay. So, no um action items for the board of education. How we doing

014our executive session? I don't have anything to read. I don't know who she kind of looked like. They're all good. So moved. Is he going to make me repeat that back like a loud? I don't know. I was trying to help you. Thank you. Do we have a second? Second. All right. Motion carries. We are off into our executive call roll. Miss Garfin. I. Mr. Ghart. Hi. Mr. Parker. I. Mr. Siguin. I. Now the motion carries.

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