001Good evening. Um, we're we're still waiting on a few board members. So, what we're going to do is the part of the meeting that's not voted on, which is the fun part, the recognitions. So, so we're going to go ahead and start with the recognitions. And we have a lot of them tonight, as you can see. Um it it really warms my heart because this is what it's all about and it's our students and and to see them here and being successful. Thank you first to all the parents and and uh important people in their lives that are out there. Um we couldn't do it without you and partnership and uh all the all the students. We do have cupcakes and cookies but you have to take a picture with us first. Okay? Then you
002get all the food. But um thank you very much. And look, see, I started talking and it was the magic the magic wand there. Thank you. So, we're going to go ahead and start the board meeting now that we have our quorum and go right into recognitions. Thank you. Okay. So, I'd like to call our meeting uh to order. Our April 16th, 2025 city schools board meeting. We can all rise for our pledge of allegiance. Roll call. Roll call. Roll call. 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. All right, I will introduce our board members. We have Mr. Brent Parker to my right, Mrs. an an Annie Garfin to my immediate
003left, Mr. Lenhauser, board member, Ann Schlash, our superintendent, and Colleen Ahol, our treasurer. My name is Elaine Siguin, and we are um without Mr. Mike Gart tonight. All right, so moving on to the board recognition, and Ann's going to take it from here. Great. Thank you. As I said before, thank you so much for uh supporting all of our different programs. We have a lot of different programs here tonight. We had a huge recognition last board meeting, too. We had so many we had to split them. This is a good problem to have, right? So, I'm going to first call up Matt Sorca who is our middle school athletic director. Um, we we decided a few years ago uh the important part of building our programs is to start with our youth and um he's
004done a great job. So, Matt, you steal that mic. Yes. Go. All right. Thank you guys for coming out. Um, to start, I actually am bringing somebody up here to help give out all of our things today. Um, I could call Oh, I could call him mayor, but he's actually coaching our student staff game tomorrow, and I want to get some playing time. So, can we bring up coach Brewbaker to help give out some thanks? All right. Now, to help introduce our first group, it's going to be our boys basketball team. Um, before they come up and talk about our players and hand out things to our players, I do want to recognize our two coaches. Um, that'd be Kyle Rosford and Tavon Curts over there. They did a Thank they did a tremendous job
005um this year with all of our kids. Uh, we knew we had a really good group coming in. Um, but they continue to push the kids, continue to expect more out of them. Um, and honestly, I could not be happier with how they handled everything. So, they're gonna come down here and they're gonna introduce our players. Thank you guys. Congratulations. Fantastic. Great. Congratulations. Go, Tavon. I don't know what I'm separated from you guys. Well, come on. Come down. You can come. Stay down there. We're going to shake hands. Yeah. Well, let's do it. All right. had a broken one. I moved it all the way down. Budget cuts. That's too much work. I can be miked tonight. All right. So, players, when you guys come down, come down here, get the award, shake hands, and
006then shake your hands going all the way back down. Okay, got it. All right. Our first one is Alliance Anderson. It's fine. This is good. The coach has started it. Way to go. Congrats. Yeah, go that side now. Jeremiah Carol Javvante Carter. Demetrius Dalton. [Applause] Way to go. Who wants Congrats? Congratulations. Okay. You just want to be different, right? All right, Drew Gibbs. Drew looks like he can take me. Good job. Congratulations. There you go, Drew. Colon Jackson, [Applause] Jamil Johnson. I knew it. I knew Johnson. I knew that. Kyler Largo, buddy. Congratulations. Congratulations. Way to go. Way to go, Anthony Parker. Congratulations. There you go, Kai. Trenton Casada. Congratulations. Kayen Higin Bothotham. Way to go, buddy. Look at you getting two awards tonight, buddy. awards. Congratulations. After the season at least 18 and Oh,
007wow. Cast on. Did I say 18 and it's on the back of their shoes. All right. Um before we get the coaches back to their seats, I do want to say a few things about the team. Um so overall the group, they won the SWC. They went they went 18 and0 which was impressive. Um but I'd say more impressive than any of those or either of those two things is they continue to push each other and they continue to push themselves. Um we had some guys on that team, sorry, we had some guys on that team that came in that had played for multiple years that came in and knew exactly what to do from day one. We had some other guys that hadn't played organized basketball before. Um, but they worked together. They They
008picked up their teammates when they got down. They pushed each other to get better. And I could not be more proud than than I am on those 11 guys. So, thank you guys. Good job. Way to go, guys. Awesome. That's amazing. He's a great teacher, too. All right. Next up, we're going to go over robotics. And to come up and introduce everybody is Mike West. Hi. Uh, appreciate you guys having us here today. Uh, we have a unique group of individuals here to kind of recognize. Our robotics program is separated into all kinds of different groups. So, we have a group of elementary school kids that compete in an elementary school division. We have middle school kids that compete in a 78 division. We have eighth graders that compete in a VRC division. We have
009high school kids. So, we really have run four programs here. So, our kids, they really compete all year long. Our season is significantly longer than anything else that we do. Um, we run like six to seven months. So, what we brought here today was our coaching staff and we brought some kids here that uh won a state championship this year. So, um I have in the back uh Jen Smith and Angie Burgess who are in staff. They don't come up. They don't want to come up. Got to go up. Hey, you two have to come up here. Sorry. There we go. Come on. If they applauded for me, you have to be acknowledged. Nice try. Uh, and we have Janine Stap here as well, who's going to uh introduce the kids. Awesome. Angie says, "I
010get one, too." All right. Uh so uh the group of kids that are here today uh competed in the elementary school and the middle school uh IQ state championship. Uh we have two teams here that won sportsmanship awards in their respective divisions. Uh as a team, as a program that is the award that we put the most emphasis on because we want to represent Ayria. We want to represent our individual schools, our program, our coaches, and ourselves. So we are ridiculously proud of those awards. But we also had a team that actually won their tournament and won a state championship today. So for the rest of their lives, they get to say they were state champions. The coolest part about them though is they're seventh graders and they competed against seventh and eighth graders. So
011they get to try again next year. Okay. So our state champions, their team was 44113T and they were called the Fantastic Four. So that was Chucky, Zach Trenton. Unhold that. We are missing one from that team. Jaden, he couldn't make it today. Buddy, good job. Congratulations. Double champ. Good job. Wow. And then our middle school team that won the sportsmanship award was 44113V. Um, we are Groot and that was Jillian, Cordelia, and Kylie. Congratulations. I want a picture with him. Okay. Good job. Good job. Congratulations. Good job. Good job. Makes sense, right? Yeah. Little basketball that And then our elementary to school division team that won sportsmanship was 44035D Deadpool. Um Allara, Vivian, and DJ. [Applause] And if you couldn't tell, all of our team names were based off of the Avengers this year. So,
012hence the Groot and Deadpool. Congrat. Congratulations. Congratulations. She had that look like what do I do next? Uh, thanks for recognizing these guys. Uh, we really try to not put any of the emphasis on the coaches. It's always about the kids. So, thanks for getting them up here and acknowledging that. Nice job, guys. And while he won't put an acknowledgement on the coaches, I will. Can you guys give them a round of applause, [Applause] please? All right. And our next group that we are going to acknowledge is our Special Olympics team. To the stage up here, I'm going to call Kevin Corp and Ashley Schwarz to introduce the team. Okay. Um, is it on? It's on. It's on. Okay. Um, before we introduce the kids, there's a few people I want to introduce. Um, Special
013Olympics, we kind of get forgotten because it happens during the summer when everyone's on break. But we take, Miss Smazi's been taking for over 20 years, kids down to Columbus. And it's just not for today. It's for three days. Friday, Saturday, Sunday. We're with the kids. And most of these kids have never been. It's the first time that they're staying away from their parents, which is a cool experience for them. We stay in the dorms at Ohio State. Last year, we were on the track in the field in the horseshoe where most people just look at. So, it's a cool experience. We're up at 6:00 in the morning. wear it till about 10 at night for three days and it's nice because they sleep the whole way coming back home. Um, Miss Mazy has done
014this for over 20 years volunteer and she's taken at least 150 kids down to Columbus. Miss Ashley's at 15 years doing the same things. Where's Miss Bonnie. Miss Bonnie has driven the bus. If you ever driven in Columbus by the college, you're all one-way streets. And she gets us to where we need to be. It's amazing what she does for us. We have Will over there. Will's been volunteering for nine years. This is my 10th year and we love coming and doing it every year. But for the kids, where's our list? Ashley. Okay, we got Aaron Daniels. Look at all the medals around Aaron's neck. Aaron last year took the hand. Aaron took first place last year in the 100 meter race. There's my trivia buddy. Then we got Evan Miller. Where's Evan? Evan last
015year took first place in the mini javelin. Yes, these guys are throwing javelins. Way to go. Here we go. Mini javelin. We got Cameron Jackson. Here he comes. Okay, Cameron coming up. Last year, Cameron participated in the 100 meter and the softball drill. Good job, Cameron. Um, Ricky Landing's not here tonight, but he participated last year. Everyone knew Ricky in the high school and he did a great job and he was a great leader for our kids. James Hall, come on down. James J is the best kid. Shake some hands, James. Shakes, shake. No, shake their hands. Come on. James probably would have come in first in all his races, but he loves waving at the crowd when he's running. And so James always has done a great job for us. And their last athlete,
016Mai Harris, come on down. Mai last year participated in a 100 meter run and a mini javelin. As you see, he's got the medals around his neck. And once again, Miss Bonnie and Will back in the corner. They've done a great job for us. And Miss Ashley now is taking care of Special Olympics. Hopefully, we can do it for another 20 years, but it's a great program. Wonderful. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. You guys want to shake again or how about high five? Okay, we're going to high five this way. All right, everyone. High five. Yay. Yay. High five. Way to go, guys. Way to go. Way to go. Good job, man. So, um, yeah, go ahead. We're
017We'll do pictures with teams over there at the backdrop and cupcakes, cookies there. All right. We're going to take a brief break. We're going to take team pictures over there and then cookies and cupcakes over here. All right, we're going to continue. All right, moving on. Um, we do not have any presentations. Uh, so it's time for visitor comments. The school board encourages and appreciates citizen interest and 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 up to five minutes may place their name on a signup 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
018to 10 minutes. Each meeting participant will be invited to speak directly to the board so that so 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 meetings shall be limited to a total of 30 minutes. Persons requesting the opportunity to speak shall be called in the order in which their request is received by the board. Any member of the public who is not able to give their public comments as a result of the maximum public comment time period being reached is invited to submit a request to speak at a subsequent regular board meeting. So we do have one
019um gentleman that signed up, Mr. Jonathan Higgabotham. Uh if you'd like to um join us at the the t not join us but the table and state your name and address your mic. Oh right. Is it on? Okay. My name is Jonathan Higmatam. I live in 1010 Dodge Drive in Ammerst. Um I'm here to support my friend Ramon Gilbert. His sons go to Valyria. Um your name. Yeah, my name is Ramon Gilbert. Uh, I stay at uh 320 uh Summer Street. Um, my kids go to Eastern Heights Elementary. Okay. All right. So, uh, we're here we're here to address a few concerns. I'm here to, like I said, to support my friend and I've been a part of his him and his son since he's had him. Um the first uh thing is that he's
020currently temporarily like banned from the school for something that he didn't even have nothing to do with and we're still trying to figure that out and the superintendent signed off on it and we tried to contact her several times about that and we kept getting passed off to other people who said we needed to talk to her. So that's becomes a concern for us cuz he can't even come interact without there being problems at this point with his sons and his both his sons have IEPs which also becomes an issue because we're just now getting his uh son Zion into a different classroom that better suits his IEP and here it's the end of the school year. So, we're really concerned about all these situations going on and it's not being addressed properly, you know,
021and on top of that, we're trying to figure out why this school keeps making allegations towards him um when he doesn't have nothing to do with nothing that they're talking about. So like we're we're here to to find out and try to resolve all these issues that are going on because at this point it's become troublesome and it's interfering with everyday life and it's a it's uh affecting his ability to help parent his kids through school on top of that with him not being able to you know do anything you know and and whatnot. So like all these things have become real serious issues and we we'd like to get to the bottom of it and resolve all this you know I don't understand how you know the school like when I went to school
022is completely different than it is today. I understand that you know but there are some things like I don't understand that when I hear these things or when I witness these things like I can't comprehend it like how is a school allowed to allow these things to go on? I mean, how is there a staff properly trained for all this stuff? And let me say something. And then like and it's like an emotional thing though, too, cuz I don't I don't like like I don't like being treated like I feel like I'm a criminal. You know what I'm saying? Like I don't I'm I'm involved with my children and like I need to be I need to have access to my children at all times just in case anything happens. But with this being stated,
023like even even with with my stepson, like you know, I couldn't even get him, you know, they go to a different school, I wouldn't even be able to get him if there was an emergency that that came up. So, I'm like, we're here today just trying to adjust the issues and get everything resolved and just Yeah, cuz like I said, at this point, it's just become it's it's become extra on everything. and you know like you know him as a parent you know and a single dad you know that that that's extra weight on top of having to work and raise two sons and you know everything else you know and like I said we've tried to reach out and contact people and this is where we've come up you know this is the only
024this first time we're actually being heard about any of this other than when we had a meeting with the school a few weeks ago that's when they finally decided to change his teacher you know and you know right now it's going okay but you know with his disabilities you know that's that's subject. So you know this this becomes a real concern because at the end of the day you know his older son is not being properly educated like you know and that's becomes a huge issue as part of life and with the things that have been going on for an example like he was allowed to call home and he told the staff that his dad said he could call home if he didn't eat lunch and get McDonald's like you know this has never
025happened before and how are you just allowing it to happen now you know like that doesn't make any sense. It's like, you know, usually when kids get in trouble or when they do or say certain things, which is another thing that some of the stuff ain't being reported to him like it's supposed to, you know, we didn't find out certain stuff until a meeting, which so he he has to how do you go back and address some that happened previous before, you know, and whatnot. So like all these things have become a huge issue and at the end of the day the ones that are getting hurt the most is the kids because if you look at the way our society is once they turn 18 you can't do the same stuff you do as
026a kid. And from the result and everything that I've seen that's been happening, that's the route it's gone with his older son because, you know, they allow things to happen. And because he he's smart enough to know how to manipulate it and that's what he's been doing since, you know, and you know, like I said, they finally switched his teacher. Look, that's going okay for now. But I I know his disability. I I have similar disabilities. So I understand that it's just a matter of time before something serious comes up again you know and like I said these are all problems you know like we send our kids to school even when I sent my kids to school you know we send him to be educated you know and this is not happening his son
027is going on almost 10 and has trouble he don't think he can read and write that to me is a huge problem you know and from another thing that I'm seeing you just from the years that I've been from going from Lorraine schools with him being my neighbor to now Yria schools like he had issues there now he's having issues here you know so it it's not like it wasn't documented throughout the time so why did it take so long to to to fix the measures or even attempt to fix the measures like it's April like the whole school year is gone so how does that how does that help his son how does that educate his son and how does the things that are allowed to be happening and uh uh you know that
028that's impactful on him because he's young and he doesn't know the consequences of everything which becomes a problem in the future cuz like I said once once he turns 18 that's a different ball game you know and and that's not nobody wants to see their kid go through that route nobody you know you know not me not him not you you know and like we're here like we've tried reaching out we've tried doing different things I've been helping him the whole way you know And this this has become an issue. Like I said, we reached out to the superintendent three times and we got passed off to somebody else. Each time tell us we need to talk to the superintendent. I mean, how does that help? You know, Mrs. uh Slash are are you going
029to circle back with them and then update? Absolutely. on what happens? Absolutely. Okay. So, I mean, you want to add anything else? I mean, no. I mean, like like I said, we need this resolve because at the end of the day, the kids the kids are the ones suffering the most, you know, and that's that's to me that's not right. Nobody public school, private school, any school, you know, that's that's just All right. Thanks for coming to the meeting. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for coming to the meeting. All right. I need anything else? No, we're going to discuss. We have your contact information, number, and everything. Do we need to still stay here or No, no, no. You you can go. All right. I really appreciate everybody's time and like I said, I'm sorry
030it had to come all the way to this, but we we ran out of options, you know, and it's just become and the superintendent will update us then. Thank you. What happened? And grab a cupcake. Oh, I already Okay, moving on. Uh the meeting minutes have been posted. Do I have a motion? So move. So move. Do I have a second? Second. Uh, madame treasurer, can you please call the role? Mr. Surfin, I. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Sein, I. Motion carries. All righty. See what else we have here. Board of Education items. We have none tonight. Treasur action items. Uh, yes. Thank you. to accept the financial report for the month of March of 2025 and all the enclosures below and to accept the two generous donations from the Ohio Beef Council
031and Jerry and Cynthia Westfall for their $500 donation for the clothing closet. So, thank you for those. All right, then. Do we have a motion to approve the treasur's action items? Motion. We have a second. Second. All right, Madam Treasur, please call the role. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Garfin, I. Mr. Parker I Mrs. Sew I. Okay. Treasurer other. Yes. To appoint two board members as primary representatives and the remaining three for alternatives for the expulsion hearing date for Wednesday of May 21st at 4 p.m. Do we have uh two members that Yeah, we're uh Annie and Mike. Thank you. And then um the remaining will be the backup. Thank you. Okay, we do we have to vote on that, right? Yes. Okay. So, do we have a motion to approve the items recommended by the
032treasurer? So, moved. Do we have a second? Second. Madam Treasurer, please call the role. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Starfin, I. Mr. Hower, I. Mrs. Seuin, I. Motion carries. Do we have a treasury report? No report. No report tonight. Okay. So, moving on to superintendent action items. All right. Bunch of exciting stuff. First of all, asphalt and concrete paving to approve the purchase of asphalt and concrete paving with always construction. Just so you know, this is state bid. So, um Okay, we'll do some work this summer on our our roads and parking lots, right? Also, excuse me, to approve the purchase of the new phone system hardware and installation from CDWG um not to exceed 300,000. to approve the home instruction tutor is listed below to approve the settlement agreement with the area city school board
033and support staff. And that concludes my action items. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the superintendent's action items? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Madam treasure, please call the role. Mr. Surf. I. Mr. Parker. I. Mr. Hower. I. Mr. Sigin. I. Motion carries. Okay. Superintendent other. Looks like there's quite a few. I know. And and I can't believe it's that time of year already. But we have our first uh of two graduation lists. This is the early college list of graduating seniors to approve them. Also to approve the May 20 I believe it's May 27th. I I don't think it's May 28th. So I'm going to change that date. Um because we're not going to get rain. Um that is the rain date. So, we have 406 seniors at Larry High
034School graduating. And that concludes my action items for that. We need to separate them. Let's first vote on the early college. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the graduation list of students from Ayria College High School? Motion to approve. Do we have a second? Second. Please call the RO. Mr. Hower. I. Mr. Parker. I. Mr. Surfin. Abstain. Mr. Mrs. Seaguin. I. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the graduation list of students, a list of students from Ayria High School? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Madam Treasurer, please call the role. Mr. Surf. I. Mr. Mr. Gster Parker. Hi, Mr. Hower. Hi, Mrs. Sein. I How many is that this year? What's 406? Wow. That's a little smaller. No. Uh, it it's right around the same as I believe last
035year. Okay. Yes. A lot. All right. Then, do we have personnel action items? We certainly do. First of all, to approve the appointment of the following certified administrative staff, and we'll come back to that, but Amanda Belchure for the assistant principal at Laria High. Also, to approve the appointment of the following certified staff is listed below. We have a new school psychologist and kindergarten intervention specialist. To approve the retirement of the following certified staff member, Carrie Kaminsky, grade five at Northwood, 27 years in Ayria. Wow. Also to approve the supplemental contracts of the following certified staff member um for extended time for a school psychologist to approve the resignation of the following certified administrator. Uh Natalie Matthews, associate superintendent to approve the retirement of the following classified staff. We have Helen Helen Buffington, lunch monitor
036at Elely for 10 years and Jim Kennedy, uh, tech support technician for 19 years. To approve the resignation of the following classified staff is listed below. To approve the unpaid leave of absence for the following classified staff, to approve the appointment of the following classified staff as listed below. And that concludes my personnel action items. And I do have uh one one introduction after you approve it. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the superintendent's personnel item action items? So move. Do we have a second? Second. Madam treasure, please call the role. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Starfin I. Mr. Hower. I. Mr. Siguin. I. Okay. All right. So, it is my honor. First of all, I'm going to call up Jod Johnson. I know you're back there, but she will introduce our new assistant
037principal. That is very exciting for all of us uh to introduce. So, take it away, Jody. Take it away. Well, first I want to thank you for giving me opportunity, Ann, and thank you to the board members for allowing me some time up here to introduce our new assistant principal. So um when I had the committee come together to start the interviews um I asked them a specific question and I asked them think about their role and what they were looking for in a candidate. Uh we landed on three things. The first one was they wanted someone that had experience in the classroom. They wanted someone who understood urban education and understood our community. and they wanted someone who understood the initiatives that we were trying to do in our building and that we're trying
038to do in the district. So, I'm excited to announce that not only did we find our candidate, but we had our candidate already in our building. That's right. So, um Amanda Belchure has been teaching for 18 years. She is has done all of her teaching in the city schools. She has done all of her teaching at Alyri High School. She is a proud Alyri High graduate and she's also a resident. I'm honored to introduce you to Amanda Belchure. That's right. Five minute speech. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Sorry. Congratulations. Congratulations. You know, I'm proud of you. Congratulations. [Music] Yes. So, I thank you for the opportunity to speak. I know it's kind of unorthodox in these situations, but it's what I wanted to do. Uh, I probably won't get through without crying, as I already kind of
039am. Uh, but and it'll sound like I'm giving a short Oscar speech, but that's okay. I'm okay with that. Um, as Jod mentioned, I'm a pioneer. I went to McKinley, Eastern Heights, and Yria High School, class of 2003. I'm wearing a very worn shirt that says class of forever because uh we had these made at the convocation and uh it was an idea that I came up with because I thought I'm in it forever and I know there's a lot of other pioneers out there that are as well. Um, I've been inspired by some of the greats, uh, like Don Randall. Um, Ken Barnes, Matt Jablonsky, and Jane Byer. They taught me how to be a great teacher and a great human. And now I'm inspired by the here with me today and many that
040aren't. Um, people such as Trista Practal, Betsy Trump, Lauren Tobos, Mandy Pakornney, Kaylee Bonsio, Megan Dedricch, Megan Johnson, Alli Abraham, Aaron Barrett, Kathy Daniels, Matt Daniels, Troy Hill, Molly Newower, Anne Renan, Maria Gilmore, Carrie Dargo, and Brett Hibberger. And there are so many more that I don't have enough time to name, but these are the names you don't get to hear often and that I witness giving everything they have for this district and this community. They deserve as much recognition as I do and more. Education is 100% a team effort and EHS is a team that I am so proud to be on. I am of course inspired by our students and families every day. Uh what they overcome and what they accomplish is nothing short of amazing. Leaving the CRA classroom after 18 years,
041as Miss Johnson mentioned, was not easy. Um, but I'm really excited for the opportunity to meet the needs of our students and families in a new way. And I owe a huge thank you to Jodie Johnson, Tim Brown, Natalie Matthews, and my friends, my f and especially my family for their support through this process. And I thank you all for giving me the opportunity and uh trusting me um the board and especially an for trusting me in this role. I promise this is not uh anything short of simply passion for yria. So thank you. [Applause] Okay. Um superintendent report. Yes. Um, I got to follow that Oscar speech now, right? Um, couple uh real quick announcements tonight and tomorrow at 700 p.m. So, you can run right over there at the PAC. Um, Eastern Heights
042Middle School is putting on two little shows called The Clearing in the Shoes and one of them is student written. So, pretty exciting stuff. Uh, I had the opportunity to go this past Friday and take some of my mom and her friends to um see the musical Little Shop of Horse. Xander, you did a wonderful job and it was amazing. I had never seen it before. And like that plant, that thing was amazing. Pictures of that. Oh my goodness, it was amazing. And uh is that where they got the like Venus fly trap? I don't know. But, you know, it looked a lot like a baby one. But it always amazes It doesn't really amaze me because I I've been around our kids for so long, but boy are they talented. And I wish more
043people could come out and see the talent that our kids have. But kudos to everyone that participated. Um, it was just unbelievable. And my mom, she's written me every day since last Friday saying how much her friends enjoyed it. And um none of her friends are from Yria, but they said they'd rather go to our musicals and plays than go down to Severance Hall because they think ours are better. And I said, "That's a huge compliment." So kudos to all of them and the staff that spend so much time with our students to do that. Also, um spring break, I know, uh many of Yes. Yes. I I'm right there with you, Xander. Um, spring break starts after tomorrow and uh we wish everyone a safe and restful holiday. The craft fair this past weekend.
044Got a lot of emails about that too. I heard that was wonderful. And can't believe it, but May 9th, right around the corner, Special Olympics. So come on out and support all of our wonderful students from around Lorraine County. And athletes. May 9th. May it's always a Friday, I believe. So really excited about that and uh just again tonight just seeing all the wonderful things happening in um really warms my heart. So thank you. Thank you. All right. Does anyone from the board of education have any things to add? We got two of the directors back there from the musical. Two of the directors. Yeah, the two directors are back there from the musical. Oh, Kaylee stand up. Miss Bonsio and Miss Barrett. All right. I didn't see them back there. Yes, they uh I
045would say they're the musical directors from the musical, but sorry, I didn't see you back there, but wonderful. Absolutely phenomenal. Okay. And uh we do have an executive session. Um do we have a motion to approve executive session for manners to be kept confidential according to federal law? So move. Second. Which? You move it. I'll second. So move. Uh, Madam Treasure, please call the role. Mr. Gurfin, I. Mr. Parker, I. Mr. Hower, I. Mr. Siguin, I. Okay.