001All right. Wow, that sounded good. All right, you ready, Marty? I never give you heads up, so I'm giving you heads up. All right. All right. I would like to call our May 21st, 2025 Ayria Board of Education meeting to order. Um, would you please call the role? Mr. Here. Miss Garurfin here. Mr. Ghart here. Mr. Hower here. Mr. Parker here. All right. We can all rise for our pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, I'll introduce our board. We have Mr. Brent Parker down to the far right, Mr. Mike Ghart to my immediate right, vice president Annie Karstarin to my left, board pres or board member
002Lenhauser, uh, our superintendent Annne Slush, and our treasurer Colleen Apol. Who are you? And I am Elaine Sidwin. Yes. Do I never introduce myself? I don't know. I might. Okay. So, we have uh our next section is set aside for visitors comments. I'll just quickly go over um the roles regarding visitors comments. The school board encourages and appreciate citizen interest in meetings of the board of education. Normally, the board will meet twice during the month and will make accommodations to allow public participation. Persons wishing to address the board for up to five minutes may place their name on a sign-in sheet indicating the topic they wish to address or make a written request to the treasurer's office one week in advance of the board meeting to speak for up to minutes. Each meeting participant will
003be invited to speak directly to the board so that that their remarks may be clearly heard and questions may be asked in order to asssure that the board is able to conduct its business in an orderly and efficient manner and to complete its regular agenda. The public comment time period of its regular board meeting shall be limited to a total of minutes. Okay. We do have uh visitors com a visitor that signed up today. Actually two of them together. We have uh Mr. Russ Van Warmer and Mr. Jacob Smith who would like to speak in regard to a recognition of a community contribution. So if you gentlemen like to come to the front, state your name and address and we'll go from there. All right. Good evening. Uh this thing on I don't think so.
004I am. There you go. I'm Russ Van Warmer. Um a couple years ago I became the PA announcer for Pioneer football. Go Pioneers. You're right. Um, as I sat on the 50 yard line up in the press box and the band announcer indicated it was time to do the Star Spangle Banner. First night up there, I got up and I looked end to end in the stadium and I could see this little flag stuck back in the corner of the end zone. And u had this idea, we need a big beautiful flag at Elie Stadium. So uh I was taking it upon myself to see if I could get this done. I uh incorporated Jacob Smith from Lorraine County Veterans Service uh to actually kind of back me in a fundraiser to get this done.
005Um total cost of this is $25,000. So uh going through this, Jake got a hold of me one day. He said, "I took it to my board. We got you fully funded. It's all done." Um, so what I'm asking is through proper location, I would like to have this pole installed at Elie Stadium before the August 22nd home opener. The reason for that, we have a veteran Marine from Ayria High School alumni from the 50s that uh four years of football, four years of track, uh four years of wrestling. He graduated from Malaria High, moved on to Miami of Ohio, received his degree. Uh then he enlisted in the Marine Corps. He uh was a pilot, was shot down, and was held a prisoner of war for seven years in Hanoi. Um we want to
006raise this flag for him, dedicated to him being a pioneer and also all veterans in Lorraine County, all veterans. But uh we'd really like to get the approval and get this done for the home opener. So, we're at August 22nd. This is Jacob Smith from Lorraine County Veteran Service. And, uh, if you'd like to say a few words. Yes. Uh, thank you. My name is Jacob Smith, director of Lorraine County Vets. Uh, you want my work address or you want my home address? Does it matter? Um, I think it's home address. Correct. Okay. Well, that's uh 9503 Chesapeake Drive, North Royalton, Ohio. So, um, the veteran's name is Harlon P. Chapman. He uh I Russ kind of went what went over what he did and why. Uh we did some research on this and a
007lot of that was Russ's footwork uh working with the school historian. Correct. And um we found out that he was indeed a football player here in the 50s. So we won. He passed last year. His widow still lives in Vermillion. Um my board has already bought and paid for the poll. We actually have possession of the poll. So, we have the poll, but we don't have permission to put it in yet. Uh, we do have a fallback position for the poll if the board would deny putting it in the uh stadium, but uh we really want to put it in the stadium. Uh, by the way, I represent the Line County Veteran Service Commission and each county, I don't know if you guys know or the law of the audience knows how that works. I
008I work for a board of five commissioners. I do not report to the county commissioners at all. They're not in my chain of command whatsoever. Um I they we get a percentage of the property tax to fund us much like you guys get that. Um and that's 0.5% of property tax that each of you pay goes to fund my service commission. We do uh three main things and then a fourth. And the three main things are we file claims for veterans. Uh we filed over 3,800 last year. We provide financial assistance for veterans and their families. Of which last year alone, just last year alone, we provided uh over 1,335,000 of financial assistance for veterans and their families. Um we also provide transportation to and from VA medical appointments. Those are the three main things
009we do. But there's another thing we're charged with doing according to the Ohio Revised Code 5901 in case you want to look that up. Um is we are supposed to promote patriotism. Um my board approved this uh under that part of the law. We also are supposed to advertise. So the we would in perpetuity be supplying the flag that would be flown on this pole. And if you're talking a 12 by 18 foot flag, which it probably would be, uh, you're talking at least probably anywhere. We get high quality flags, uh, you're talking like $500 a year. Um, we would be willing to help the school supply any American flags that they would need. Uh, you can reach out to us and work with that. I will also I also want to uh give a
010tip of the hat to command sergeant major LCO and his JROTC today. Uh the city of Valyria was holding on to thousands, literally thousands of flags in a garage area. Uh we picked those up and your JRTC went through them, sorted out the ones that were no good anymore, uh beat up too bad or what have you and uh bound the others in groups of 12. That's how we do it. And uh they returned 6,800 uh cemetery flags to us today. Each flag represents a dollar of investment. So your JRTC saved my office $6,800. So I just want to make sure that you know uh how important they are. We also working with Sar Major Loko is the only high school that has really taken advantage of us working with them to help buy uh
011shirts for your students. Uh JRTC on a personal note is very important to me. It's how I started. That's how I got interested in the military. And that decision to give up a study hall and go into JRTC, that road started in 1996 and has led me to sitting in front of you today. Um, so we are asking for permission to put the flag pole at the football stadium. Um, I am relying on Russ uh and I assume uh your superintendent to kind of get the eightdigit grid as we would say in the military of the exact location of where it would be. Um, there would be a sign saying that the flag is supplied by Lraine County Vets as long as you want us to supply that flag that kind of keeps us on
012the right side of where we should be. And um we also want to get some sort of dedication plaque to demonstrate that you're just not pioneers in the age of your school, but you're also pioneers uh establishing new borders of freedom throughout the world. And Mr. uh Chapman, I'm sorry, Mr. Chapman is a testament to the type of students that come from this school. Uh so if you could give us permission to start moving forward with that, we would like that. A couple other things that I want to talk about if I can. Every year we have a this will be our fourth year. We have a we have a number of events. One of which is our baseball game. It'll be on June 27th working with the crushers. This year uh we will be
013honoring since it is the 160th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Uh we will be honoring uh the 103rd OVI. May I stand up and show This is the jersey that uh all the baseball players, the Crushers will be wearing. Uh that's the front side. This is the back. Um it won't have 103rd on have the player's number. On the sleeve, you have our emblem. On the other sleeve, you will have 103rd or whatever veterans organization they want. Uh there's a number of stars in the collar represent and you can see those stars. Each star represents a battle that the 103rd fought in for those of you. And the American flag on the back does not have 50 stars. Rather has 36. And the reason for that is because that was the flag
014that the 103rd fought under the soldier design that you see on the front and the back is of the soldiers sailors monument in downtown Cleveland because Lorraine County is so damn cool that we build statues to our people in other counties. So um no the 103rd came from Kyhoga County Madina and Lorraine County. So that statue was actually designed the army side was designed by a Lraine County 103rd uh veteran. So we're very proud of that. I would encourage the school board to try to get take a field trip out to the 103rd. They have structures built by the Civil War veterans that is now turned into a museum. Um, I just want to thank you all for your JRTC, your support of that. Hopefully your support of this. If you're interested in the game,
015it's on June 27th. I also want to call out your lawyer, Howard Lane. We have we have a program that we will help veterans with wills and some very basic legal services. and Howard Lane has been working with us uh three years now. Yeah, that's longer. Three years. So, um if you have veterans that need wills, uh come talk to us. We may be able to assist with that. Um, the other thing is, and I have said this to different people before, if you have students that are children of veterans and they are financially having a hard time, if they qualify for our FA program, we can actually give the veteran, I believe it's up to $500 a year to buy clothes for the student. So, if you have things like this, please let us
016know. We are here to help. I have $2 million to spend this year alone in relief of Lorraine County veterans and their families. So, with that, I thank you for your time. If you have anything else questions on this or anything, more than happy to take those and I assume Russ would be as well. Yes, absolutely. What's our coin? your coin that I gave you that first of all that coin if you look at the bottom is made in Lorraine County Ohio everything we do we try to spend at veteran owned businesses or Lorraine County businesses first uh that's made by Lorraine County business called scent um the coin for those who are in the military kind of understand it's a way to say thank you you've done something outstanding uh the coin itself if
017you look on the front side which has the outline of the county. All military sea seals have special meaning, right? So, if you look at the coin, you see the counties in blue with gold stars. If you've ever seen the county flag of Lorraine County, it is a white flag with that kind of light blue color with stars representing each uh major community, illeria being one of them. Um, so we kind of to honor that, we use that. You'll notice that there's five gold stars in the center. You'll also notice that those five gold stars are upside down. In other words, we normally think when we look at the flag, we think one point up, two point one point on left, one point right, and two points down, right? That's kind of how we think
018of the star. Um, but and there are upside down. Two points up, one point down. The reason for that is the Congressional Medal of Honor is given with two points up, one point down, right? And Lorraine County claims home and a couple of them I think are tenuous, but it's in the county building uh to be home of five Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. So, we pay homage to them there. You'll notice that there's another four stars on each side. So, a total of 13 stars. sets to represent the county's loyalty to the United States because 13 is our country's number, right? Um, you also notice that it has need plus ultra. That's just not our motto. That's what we hope to live up to. It's Latin for no higher standard or nothing past this
019point. That's what we hope to live up to. That is also the motto of a US Navy ship named the USS Lorraine County, which was built in Lraine, Ohio at the shipyards. Uh we joke that the kind of black and white and gray behind camouflage looking we kind of joke that that is because we're getting older. We're veterans and we're starting to get gray hair. So um a lot of thought went into that coin. On the back is the seals of all six branches of service and the center is PMIA. Thank you. Yep. Anyone else? Thank you so much. This is very exciting. Very exciting. Thank you. When would we get today? Any chance we would know a timeline? I think it would be um you would be getting with Brian Kokai, I'm assuming. And
020and this would all be professionally done on a schedule in out clean and you have a a deadline of August 27th. August 22nd for that opening football game. So we can dedicate to put it up. What's that? How long did it take to put it up? That is up to the company. We're working through another Lorraine County company, Harbortown Flags, and uh they have a construction company. That's all they do. So, we have everything they need. They just need to get there. We propose where the hole's going to be market and it's done. The the only thing I would say is I talked to Harbortown. They're probably four weeks out. So, like if you schedule today, they're not going to be here for four weeks. So, this is not something where we can call on
021August 10th and be like, "Oh, yeah, no problem. Get in there on the 12th." So, what do we need to do? Well, if you give me the go-ahad, I would begin to work with uh Brian Kai. We have to take an official vote. Do we need a vote? Do we need a vote for those? Need a vote or Well, it's a donation. So, I think you need a vote to accept the donation. What I would suggest you get more information from Brian. Okay. Okay, we can always pass a resolution which accepts the donation once we have a better scope of what it is and we also want part of that statement of appreciation. Right. Yes. Which we could do on the first June 4th meeting. We do have three possible locations picked out. Okay. And
022that would just be with the right people. This is it. This is the one you guys accept. We accept. So, we'll work with Brian and the gentlemen and figure out all the logistics. Yep. And then come back on June 4th with um the details. Okay. Yes. Does that sound good? Thank you very much. Appreciate it. On behalf of my board, thank you for having us and thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Yes. We also do the Revs race in November. Uh it was no it's going to be November 8th this year. Uh it's the race and veteran suicide. It's held held in Ayria. Uh and we're very happy to keep it here. Uh last year your JRTC came presented the colors. I've done it twice with my daughters. Oh, have you?
023Uh this year it's going to be Coastgard themed. Um, so last year we raised $40,000 to help veteran nonprofits in the county. Thank you. Thank you. This Coast Guard got our life. Okay. Okay. Moving on. Uh, presentations. And we have an exciting one tonight. Thank you. Yes. Thank you. Our treasurer is going to present the five-year forecast. Yes. And thank you all for coming for my five-year forecast. I I know that's why you're here. And it would only be a short 187 slides. So, all right. Short this year. All right. Today for the agenda, it is not 187 slides, don't worry. Um, I like to go over an overview, an umbrella view of the forecast. If you want more information attached to the agenda on board docs, um, under the pres under the five-year forecast
024is the full 25page report that goes line by line. I will not do that for this presentation unless you guys want me to, but I want you to know that there's more information that you could find in the full report. But for today's presentation purposes, we're going to go over the purpose of the forecast, the revenues, expenses, bottom line, and then what I like to do every time is a hot topic until you guys say you don't like them. And my hot topic this time is future of Ayria. Uh the levy details. All right. Purpose of the forecast. So how revised code requirement. So this has to be done twice a year. I use it as a financial planning tool. And then what I think is the most important is is this part about it
025is to engage the local board of education and the community for planning and discussion of the financial issues. All right, right into it. The revenues, as you could see, forecast revenues remain steady with an increase in local tax collection and a decrease in state distribution resulting in net decrease overall. Okay, so what does that mean? We're going to go right into the two main sources of revenues. We have the local taxes and we have the state taxes. Um, I don't think it's uh new for everybody that they knew that the reappraisal came out this year. We had the update and property taxes increased. Larry City School is on the 20 mil floor. So, we did get to see some revenue increase with the new property tax increase. So, if you look at the blue, you
026could see how the local taxes have increased from this school year to next school year and then a little bit increase moving on to fiscal year 29. On the flip side, our state sources, you could see those in orange. And overall, they're declining because they say if you have more local funds coming in, then you don't need as much state funds to subsidize that. And they're actually taking away more than we have received. So overall, it's a net decrease. Um, you can see, I will point out though, from this school year to next school year, there was the bump in the state funding only because we are not fully funded yet on the fair school funding. We're only about 80%. So next school year, we will be fully funded. So that's why you do see
027that increase in the state money, but then the property tax collection starts coming in for a full year and then they start rolling back the state monies. So that's revenues as a whole. We're going to go to the expense side. They are increasing. You could see in 20 to 21 to 22 when there was a decrease. That's because we had the co um 19 RFSER money. We were allowed to use that. So we got to we didn't have to use this much money in the general fund. So that has saved us. But then moving forward, co money is over, but the expenses are still there. So you can see that they're increasing. We got hit um we're going to be getting hit in July for our insurance. We usually have about a 2% insurance increase.
028Um I this average is about 8%. So I will forecast usually about 8% and then if we come in at two, it's great. Well, in July it's going to be an 18% rate increase. So that has hit us on the expense side. Negotiate agreements we have to pay out. transportation, inflation, all those normal things that expenses have, they're going up. Um, and one of the things I like to say too is even if you we have one or two students that moved out of district, it doesn't mean we could turn our lights down lower or not heat the building as much. So, the expenses are unfortunately still going up where their revenues remain slightly stable with a slight decrease. So, when you put that together, you could see in the line how our cash balance
029just goes down. Um and in fiscal year 29 it's anticipated to be a negative cash balance. Another way of looking at it is in numbers our revenues coming in or I should say our expenses coming in surpass our revenues. We'll be deficit spending. If you look at the first line where it's this school year of 25 where we're 1.4 million in a surplus. The only reason that's a surplus is because a lot of our bills, the transportation is one of the main ones, they're behind on their billing. So by the time we pay for April, May, and June, it won't be till July. So it looks like we are doing really well. But it's unfortunately, it's just because the billing is late. So by the time we pay for the transportation, it won't hit till
030July. So in a perfect world, you would want your bal your budget to balance your revenues equals your expenses. But unfortunately, our expenses are outweighing our revenues. So, what that does is that eats the cash balance. Um, the green stars represents the cash balance. It shows a 38% and a 32% for this school year, next school year, which is a financial indicator that is healthy. So, GFOA, auditor of state, um, I'm trying to think of who else, the Moody's, the ones that do our bond ratings, they suggest a 30% cash balance for your district. and we're doing okay until we hit school year 27 and then it just keeps going down after that. So that was um one of the reasons why in May that we put the levy onto the ballot. Another way to
031show your financial indicators, another benchmark. Some people like to use the cash balance percentage. There's also the standard benchmark for financial stability for days cash on hand. There's a 90 days is common for a benchmark. the auditor state may flag a district for fiscal caution when it falls below the threshold and you can see in school year 27 we are just hitting below that and then it just goes down after that. So that was one of the reasons why for the hot topic we had the levy. So the future of ya on May 6, 2025 the operating levy did not pass. We put that on there. Um we still have another opportunity in November. So there's two opportunities to put a ballot on the levy where you still collect the money at the same time.
032So we put it on in May. There's another opportunity in November. Whichever would have passed. We still wouldn't have collected until January of the next year anyway. So we with the my recommendation for the board will be for the November 4th 2025 general election if we put the same operating levy back on for the 4.9 mills 10-year operating levy for the district's educational programs. June 4th you would still need two resolutions. So June 4th would be the first resolution and then hopefully June 25th would be the second resolution to be able to be put on the ballot for November. And I wanted to say this before when we were talking about it, but I went really fast because I saw people sleeping. Um, I I wrote this down because I not because it's not sincere,
033but because I didn't want to forget to say it that is always we're saving expenses in a continuous and consistent practice for Ayria. So, we're always renegotiating contracts outside services with the health schools council. We're always trying to find the best practice. We're always writing and receiving grants. We're always saving through attrition and trying to refigure when employees retire. So just because when we look and the revenues are not as much as that we need, we just don't want to go and ask for new money. We're always trying to look at how we spend things and where we could save money. So that is something that we're always doing and that we're going to be consistently doing. But there is that recommendation that new money is in the future. So it would be um November
0344th to try one more time. And then you guys also had some other pieces of paper in front of you. Thanks, Ann. It just kind of shows a levy analysis and and where does that 4.9 mills come in and how did we get that? And that's it. Could I add two small things to that? Um when uh Colleen mentioned about being fully funded for the fair school plan uh funding plan, understand it's fully funded at 2022 funding, not 2025. So, it's fully funding funded, but they aren't using 2025. They take um how much does it cost to educate a student in 2022? Well, that's a lot different than it is in 2025. So, inflation in general goes up, but the past couple years of inflation that we have has been even more than the average
0352%. So, they are we will get fully funded starting next school year, but it also is on on rates that are three years old, right? But the governor has not passed their budget. So, we are going talking to representatives and we are lobbying and going to Columbus and and trying to get them to increase that. But I don't know. And we sent you the House Bill 96, which is the budget. Um, obviously it hasn't been passed yet. June 30th is usually the deadline unless it it gets pushed out. But, um, there's a lot going on. We've been working um and speaking with the Mannings and um Joe Miller and Kelly Deer um just to to let them know. I will say that uh Rep. Manning is that is her number one battle and she takes
036it very seriously, former educator. But um you know there's a lot that can happen in the next you know 30 days and uh um if you have any questions just call us. But there's there's all kinds of stuff that uh could change in a minute. Yeah. Yeah, I believe there's another testimony next next week that go and and testify for for school funding if anybody wants to go. It's in Columbus State House. All right. Okay. Thank you, Colleen. Um All right. Moving on. Uh the meeting minutes uh have been approved from our last meeting. Do I have a motion to approve the board of education meeting minutes? So move. Do I have a second? Second. Madam treasurer, please call the role. Mr. Mr. Gabart, I Miss Carsin, I. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mr.
037Siguin, I. Motion carries. Um, board of education items. Do you want to I I just want to uh recognize and um commend the um Westwood Elementary School for Friday night. I just want to say that um the fourth graders had an awesome time. The fourth graders had their graduation. U moving on to the fifth graders from the elementary school and uh principal Gaden and assistant principal Neil and the entire staff did an awesome awesome job. The food was delicious. First of all, food was excellent. But the kids had an awesome time. They danced and they sang and oh my god, the girls and oh my god, it was just it was outstanding. And I'm telling you, those kids had so much fun. And my grandson, he said, "Oh, I had the time of my life."
038It was just made it worth it, right? It made it worth every effort for food. Um, they had pasta, you had a salad, and you had um you had dessert, they had cake. It was It was excellent. It was It was really worth it. It was so great. It was so great. And everyone was so nice. From the time that you walked on the red carpet, they were taking photos. You had Oh. Oh, it was spectacular. Oh, yes. Yes. Great job to everyone. Great job. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Item G, excuse me. Treasurer action items. Looks like we have several. Uh, yes. Thank you. To accept the financial report for the month of April 2025. includes all the reconciliation, investment reports, and cash balance report to approve the attached list of purchase orders in
039order to comply with the district's purchasing procedures and to approve the three-year compilation attached agreement with Julian and group. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the items recommended by the treasurer? So move. Second. Second. Madam treasurer, please call the role. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Sarfin, I. Mr. Mr. Gart. I Mrs. Sein. I motion carries. Uh, treasurer other. Uh, yes. Thank you. To approve the May 5-year forecast for Yria City School District, which covers the period ending June 30th, 2025 through June 30th, 2029 as presented. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the items recommended by the treasurer? So move. Second. Um, madam treasure, please call the role. Miss Surfin, I. Mr. Mr. Gart. Hi. Mr. Hower. Hi. Mr. Parker. I. Mrs. Sewin. I. Motion carries. All right. Moving on.
040Do you have a treasurer report? No. I'm done. That was that was literally Okay. Superintendent action items. Yes. First of all, to declare the impracticality of providing transportation for the following students um as listed below. also to approve the following certified staff below to be paid the hourly curriculum rate. This is for the summer um state testing for those students that have yet to to um pass. We thank the the teachers that come in for that. That's wonderful help. Also to approve the agreement between Vincent Management Services and St. Jude's for the upcoming school year. to approve the over contract hours to student or support students uh for the Murray Ridge summer camp to approve the pair professionals to support the needs of the extended school year program. And that concludes my action items. Okay.
041Do we have a motion to approve the items recommended by the superintendent? I'll make the motion. Do we have a second? Second. Um Madam Treasure, please call the role. Mr. Gart, I. Mr. Hower. Hi. Mr. Surfin I. Mr. Parker I. Mrs. Seawwood I. Motion carries. M. Do we have superintendent other? No. We'll go right into personnel action. Um at the end I'll have a few announcements but first of all to approve the renewal of the following classified administrative contracts as detailed below. Then to approve the unpaid leave of absence for the following certified staff as detailed below. To approve the resignation of the following certified staff as detailed below. For some reason this year we have a lot of young teachers moving out of state. So there are some here and then um a substitute
042teacher that is no longer working. Also to approve the appointment of the following certified staff admin administrative staff as detailed below. Uh Courtney Griffith and we'll we'll talk a little bit more about that in a minute. To approve the appointment of the following certified staff is detailed below. To approve the payment of up to five days at the employees daily rate for training and transitioning to two of our new assistant principles. Also to approve the payment of up to 5 days at the employees daily rate for additional work over the summer. To approve the stipen for up to 20 hours for the following uh counselor at Early College. to approve the stipen um payment for up to 3,000 for the extended summer learning. This is our high school summer school program. Um a lot of
043these are normal every summer type uh things. So you're you're probably recognizing them. Um to approve the stipen payment for up to 20 hours for the following counselor for summer programming. to approve the stipen payment for up to 10 days at the employees daily rate for attending court dates. These are our three uh home leaison and sometimes have to go to court for some of the um absenteeism and things with students over the summer. Also to approve the stipen payment for up to five days before the start of the school year for the following employee to approve the stipen payment for up to five days at the employees daily rate for additional inschool scheduling over the summer for the middle school counselors. also to approve the stipen for up to 20 hours at the employees
044hourly rate for the following inschool uh student scheduling over the summer at Yria High. To approve the renewal of the following certified administrative contracts as listed below to approve the following certified staff to be employed on the continuing contracts as listed below for the 2526 school year to approve the terminations as detailed below. Um, just so you know, these are routine. Anyone who's on a long-term subcontract or something like that, we have to I the word termination seems strong, but it's just what we do at the end of each year um for those that were on temporary um employment. Also to approve the supplemental contracts for the following certified staff member to approve the following athletic supplemental contracts as listed below. also to approve the one-year limited contracts for the following um certified staff members
045for the f uh upcoming year to approve the retirement of the following classified staff member. Uh Lisa has been with us for 21 years as a cashier at Eastern Heights Middle and we're uh sad to see her going but wish her well in her future endeavors. also to approve the resignation of the following classified staff as listed below. Another um this is again another uh thing we have to do annually uh terminate the limited contracts for classified staff and you'll see these is listed below and then we have the appointment of the following classified staff staff is listed below. a lot of them are moving um jobs from one to another. To approve the two-year limited contracts for the following classified staff as listed below. To approve the continuing contract of the following classified staff
046for the 2526 school year. To approve the unpaid leave of absence for the following classified staff as listed below. And I think I made it. Did it. I did it. did it. Okay, let me catch up with them. Uh, so do we have a motion to approve the personnel action items recommended by the superintendent? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Madam Treasure, please call the role. Mr. Sarfin, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Gart, I. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Sein, I. So, if I could introduce a few people. First of all, um we'll start with Hamilton. We have two first grade teachers here and very nice their team came to support, but we have Ally and Kennedy uh coming to us uh for first grade. Stand up. Stand up. Come on, Kennedy. Kennedy just
047got off a plane from Italy, so she's she's a little jet-legged. Um and we welcome you. Kennedy is a graduate of Valyri High four years ago. So I I think you coach tennis as well. Yes. All right. And Ally, where are you coming from? Um Fair Park. All right. Awesome. Welcome. Then we have Merryill, who is going to be a new fifth grade English language arts teacher at Northwood. Welcome, Merryill. We have Ashley Hayes who has been a receptionist at Westwood Elementary and with the retirement of Stephanie Kerry, Ashley was a perfect fit to move right in and welcome as the new BSA at Westwood Elementary. Okay. And then the last one, um I believe um first of all, I know, um Natalie wasn't here when we accepted her resignation last time. So again, want
048to say thank you. You've been a godsend, a wonderful employee, and we're going to miss you, but we know that Independence is is going to see how great you are, and just remember you're a pioneer, too. Um but uh we'll see her at meetings and everything else. So, thank you for everything you've done and more to come on. But then taking her place, Courtney Griffith. And I got to say, the whole family has to stand up because you got to see this. I wish we had had the whole family on our basketball team. Um Oh my god. Yes. Um I'll let her introduce, but uh Courtney is coming to us from the high school as associate principal. she has been kind of the academic liaison to the high school because we we kind of look
049at the high school as our mothership, you know, as far as that's a third of our district in one building. And she has worked closely with academic services and student services um to do whatever's needed with um the students. She does the master schedule and all of that work. um and she is extremely enthusiastic, very knowledgeable um about many things and couldn't be more pleased that uh she's going to step into the role and I know her and Natalie are going to be working closely together uh for the next few months. But Courtney, if you'd like to stand up, come shake shake the hands of the board. All of you can come shake the hands of the board now. Sorry, you don't get off easy. Come on, make her say something. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations.
050Congratulations. Congrats. Congratulations. Congratulations. Thank you, Ally. Congratulations. Congratulations, All right, Ashley. I think Courtney would like to say a few words. Speech. Speech. Speech. Yes. I'm usually pretty good on the fly, but I did write it down today. Um, and so yes, that's my family back there. My husband Jeremy, um, my son in the middle, Sam, he's a freshman, um, and Avon, and then Joey just finished his freshman year of college at Adrian College in Michigan. All right. So, I am not small for a girl, but I am small. So, um, so when I came to Alyria High School seven years ago, um, I could have never imagined the level of personal and professional growth that I've experienced alongside an incredible team of teachers, administrators, and staff. Um, the academic and extracurricular opportunities and support
051available for our students, not only at the high school, but across the district. um coupled with the dedication of our teachers and administrators make Ayria High School a phenomenal place to be and I'm grateful for my time there. In my current role, um I've had the privilege of collaborating with teachers and administrators across the district in a variety of committees and initiatives that have deepened my understanding of our district's priorities and the challenges that our staff, students, and families face um all the time and just the challenges of K to2 education in general. So, I've been fortunate to work with extraordinary colleagues who have helped to shape me as an educator and a leader. Um, from my initial move into administration at Lorraine County JBS and then over to Ayria, I've had colleagues that have
052challenged me every day to rise to the occasion um and be the best leader that I can be. We have amazing building and district leaders who work tirelessly and expect nothing but the best for our students and families in the district. I would especially like to recognize the administrative team at Ayria High School. Uh Jod Johnson, Yria High School principal, Angie Alcon, Brett Hyberger, James Johnson, Brad Jarrett, and Tim Brown who gave me a chance seven years ago and has been a constant source of insight and wisdom. Thank you to Natalie Matthews um for her leadership and kindness really as my direct line to central office for the last four years and the work that I do at the high school. And thank you to Anos, the Ayria board of education and our other district
053cabinet members for trusting me in this role um and believing in me. Um, and again, thank you to my husband Jeremy. Um, my kids who have, you know, they've watched the phone ring at 9:00 at night sometimes, calls from Ann or Higgins or, you know, whoever. Um, our job sometimes doesn't stop. Um, and they've always been supportive of everything that I've done in that role. So, um, I am just so excited to step into this role and I'm honored and and look forward to continue to support the work that the district does every day. [Applause] Okay. I was going to say okie dokie again, but um uh board of education items. Uh, we do. Brett, did you want to talk anything about the policy or No, most of them from what I've seen are updates
054of like um stuff that OSBA has told us to fix wording and stuff like that. We're just going to update them that way. Okay. So, do we have a motion to uh to adopt the DEW special education model policies and procedures? I'll make the motion. I'll second. Madame treasurer, please call the role. Mr. Gart, I. Mr. Parker, I. Miss Gurfin, I. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Suin, I was that right? I mean, is there So, there's two different ones. Okay. And then, no, I think I kind of just messed that up a little bit. One big one cuz it's just Yeah, it was just one big one. Yeah. So, I was doing the the separate ones, but So, we have a uh board policy to approve the first reading of the following board policies that are
055listed below. Um to resend the board IGBA policy. I'm doing these just separately like this. Correct. Correct. Okay. Uh we have the first reading of the board of policy for uh programs for students with disabilities and read the whole line because we're waving the second reading to approve the first reading and to wave the second reading and adopt the following board policy programs for students with disabilities. Right. All right. Now we motion. Correct. We should reotion. Yeah, it's okay. Yes. So the other one was not right. Well, that's okay. We can do it for the resolution. We hold that. I'll make a motion. So, do we have a motion? We'll strike the other one. We got it. I make I move. I make the motion. Do we have a second? I'll second. All right. Um,
056please call the RO. All right. Mr. Gart, I. Mr. Parker. I. Mr. Surfent. I. Mr. Hower. I. Mrs. Sein. I. Okay. Now, this motion carries. All right. Uh, we have a request for executive session to consider matters required to be confidential under state and/or federal law and to consider charges made against a regulated individual. Do we have a motion for our executive session? A motion. Second. Please call the role. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Gart, I. Miss Garfin, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mrs. Sein, I. Motion carries and we are off to our executive session.