001It's 5 It's 5:31. So, we should start our meeting. How was that? Let's call our meeting to order. Madam Treasurer, would you please call the role? Mrs. Seuin here. Miss Garurfin here. Mr. Greart here. Mr. Hower here. Mr. Parker here. All right. If we can all rise for the 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. All right, I'll introduce our board and our um administration. We have Mr. Brent Parker to the far left right, not left. Um Mr. Mike Hart. Uh to my left is vice president Annie Karstaren, board member Mr. Lenhauser, superintendent Ann Schllo, and our treasurer Colleen Ahold. So, all right. Well, we have moving on
002to board recognition and we have uh quite a few um groups to recognize tonight. We'll start off. We'll have uh coach Brett Lar and his SWC championship basketball team. Then we'll be moving on to our girls wrestling team of the year. And finally, we will um be introduced to our L High School competitive cheerleading team who uh place fourth in the state. So, looks like um Heather's going to start out. Hi everyone. Thank you for having us here this evening. Um, I would like to bring coach Brett Laric up here. Um, he's been our head coach here for Yria since uh the 2008 2009 school year. Um, and he's definitely no stranger to Ayria. Um, he is a 1993 graduate um high school, played for the boys basketball team and then was also um on
003the girls basketball staff prior to becoming to joining the boys staff. um while he was a player here, he set the career scoring record of um 1,351 career points and he is now the third time leading scorer in the program. Um after this season, he now has 220 wins, which broke the former coaches record of 216 and that happened on February 4th at the Avon at Avon Lake um where they won 77 to 56. Um, and we are here to recognize not only coach Laric and his accomplishments, but also the boys um, in winning the conference championship for the second time in a row. And this is just the fourth year in the Southwestern Conference. We joined back in um, 2021. Um, so we're, you know, very excited to celebrate them this evening. Can we
004clap for a breath of let you go ahead and say a few words. Um, I appreciate it. Uh, we appreciate all the support last couple years. Been a great two-year run. Uh, looking forward to our young guys coming up and, um, exciting two years back to back. Uh, definitely not easy, but our guys put in a lot of hard work for it and, uh, very welld deserved for them. Start with the coaches. Okay. Uh, some of my coaches are here this evening. Uh, Curtis Baker, our freshman coach. I know. Heather, can we introduce this other person over there? And over here to the other side of Coach Lar, we do have our mayor, Mayor Baker here this evening, please. [Applause] Getting a challenge point. So, if you want to kind of go down the shake,
005shake your hands. Yeah. All right. Good job. What a great job. Do it. [Applause] group has been with me the whole time since we started. All right. All right. Congratulations. [Applause] Congrats. Good job. Congratulations. Good job. Yeah. And Curts. [Applause] Yes. Thank you. Thank you. some of our players. Uh Campbell, Junior Campbell, [Applause] Senior Taylor Brand. [Applause] Did you grow again? Really good. Congratulations. Junior Isaiah Hill. Uh Christian Rogers. Way to go. [Applause] Senior Nick Rogers. [Applause] Oh, way to go. Great job. Congratulations. Way to go. Nice job. Yes. Now, we're missing some guys. Um, these guys were coming late from track. We got some that are driving to Hunter for AU. There you go. We thank you. We appreciate the support. looking forward to next year. [Applause] Forget the mean guy. Thank you. Congratulations.
006Congratulations. [Music] Okay, now we are going to move on to our cheerleaders. So, Coach Maker, if you would like to come up here. Coach KMaker is one of two coaches that we got. The other one is Candace Davis who is not here with us this evening. Um and this is your second year, correct? Second year. Um and we are here to celebrate some of our young ladies who um put in a lot of extra time above and beyond their regular cheer practice for this for competition. They went to state this year um and placed fourth. Um but among their other accomplishments this year, they had one grand champion award, two first place trophies, one second place trophy, and one of the young ladies won a jump off contest three times, which is somewhat hard to
007do. Um so, um we are here to recognize their efforts this evening. So, Megan, I'm going to let you do you want to say something before we call them up? Yeah, just I'm really proud of the girls and how hard they worked all season. Um they came a long way in, you know, two years from last year never placing above last to this year placing first place multiple times and going to states. I'm extremely proud of you and um you guys are a great group. What is a jump off? It's that thing just where you keep going. It's where they do a toe touch. It's not the flips. What about that straight? It's when No, it's the jumps. Whoever does the flips, there are two of them. Nandi was one and the other. She's not
008here. I don't know how they do that. And and the other one that you see tumbling at the games is the one who won the jump off. She's like a springboard. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. [Applause] All right. I don't get it. Brown. Congrats. Congratulations. Congratulations. A sweater, too. Congratulations. They just want to walk right by you. Congratulations. Good job. Congratulations. Congratulations. [Applause] Good job. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations for interviews. Great job. [Applause] Kirsten Peters. Congratulations. All right. Congrats. Thank you. Congratulations. Your budget. That's awesome, coach. Way to go, man. Congratulations. Good job. Great job. Congratulations. Good job. Awesome. Okay. And finally, um, we have our girls wrestling team here with us this evening. Um, this is the second year of official girls wrestling here at Yria. Um, and they had a full team this
009year, which is an amazing feat after only having a few girls last year. Um, unfortunately, head coach Paul Felton could not be here this evening. Um, so we're going to have Chris Chlo come up and he's one of the two coaches. Um, and actually, you can come up too. The other one is Alicia. Um, Burton, she goes by Buffy. [Applause] Um, just to give you a little history on Paul, um, this is, as I said, his second year as our head coach, but he has been around the program, um, for 20 plus years. Um, he was with the the boys program as an assistant. Um, he was named Chronicle Telegram girls wrestling coach of the year. Um and then the team itself placed seventh at the state team duels this year and they were named
010the WBL WDLW girls wrestling team of the year. They were sectional champs at the Avon Ling sectional tournament and they had two state qualifiers. Seria Jackson and Jaylen Green and Maddie was an alternate. Um so they had a very successful year. So we are here to recognize them. Chris, an opportunity to say a few words. It's uh you know, I've been with the program 20 some years and so it's exciting to see the growth of the girls wrestling. It's the fastest growing high school sport in the country. Um it's grown just exponentially over the years and we're one of the biggest teams in the area and in the state and we got we're returning just about everybody. We have 10 district qualifiers this year. We have just almost every starter back except a couple. So,
011we're excited for next year to see how high we can go. Yeah, absolutely. Uh Emily [Applause] Conley tell them go there and hello. Congratulations. [Applause] Congratulations. Way to go, Hawkins. [Applause] Good job. Congratulations. Way to go. [Applause] and Chloe Washington. [Applause] Good job. Congratulations, dear. Great job. And there's um and and we do apologize that there's not more of our wrestlers here, but they are also multiport athletes, so they are at practices and games this evening. Um, we did just have one um of our basketball player sneak in Kendall Compton. So, just we just wanted to embarrass you, Kendall. Congratulations on Yes. Um, we were wondering if we could take a quick break um to let them take their quick picture, get a cupcake, and then move on before the rest of the meeting just
012for a few minutes. I don't think so. Absolutely. For a cupcake. Yep. Absolutely. So, we're going to take a short break just to allow so so that all of you don't have to stay for the whole meeting. So, okay, we will uh recall our meeting to order. Uh we have no visitor comments tonight. So, moving along to our minutes. Our me um minutes from our March 19th meeting have been posted. Uh do we have a motion to approve them? Second. You can have I'll second it. I'll give it to breakfast. His chair sunk. No, Miss Garfin. I, Mr. Parker. I, Mr. Gabart. I, Mr. Hower. I, Mrs. Seuin. I Okay. Uh, I do not believe we have any board of education items tonight, but looks like the treasurer has some items. I do. Thank you.
013to approve the attached list of purchase orders in order to comply with the district's purchasing procedures and to approve the appointment of the following law firm to represent the Liry Board of Education and its administration and matters deemed appropriate for legal services during the calendar year 2025 and to acknowledge and express appreciation for the following donations. So, thank you very much for those $3,000 for the special education team at Eastern Heights Elementary. So, thank you. And that's it. All right. All right. Do we have a motion to approve the treasurer's action items? So moved. A second. Second. Please call the role. Mr. Hower. I. Mr. Gubart. I. Mr. Garfin. I. Mr. Parker. I. Mr. Suin. I. Okay. Motion carries. Uh, treasure. Other. Uh we yes we have an expulsion hearing to appoint board members as
014primaries and then the following three as alternatives for the hearing on April 16th at 4 p.m. Do we have a we didn't talk about this? Can we get back to you? Or should we just do it right now? Okay. When is it? Um April 16th for the expulsion hearing. But who's doing it? We I Yeah, I didn't ask anyone because I didn't really I didn't know what's on here. We could do it. I cannot I can that's fine. Doesn't matter what the 16th. I can make the 16th. That's the week after next. Yes. So just assign two people. So I want to um Thank you. to appoint Parker and Mr. Howard. Thank you. Yep. The rest alternatives and that's all that I have. All right. Do we have a motion to approve uh the treasurer's
015items? So move. Second. Second. Madam treasurer, please call the role. Mr. Mr. Gretart. I. Mr. Parker. I. Mr. Garfin. I. Mr. Hower. I. Mr. Seaguin. I. Motion carries. Uh, do we have a treasury report? I do not have a treasury report, but tune in. Next month will be the five-year forecast presentation. We're excited. We sound like a good a good pair. She's stuffed up and I have a call. So, there we go. All right. Superintendent action items. I'll try to make it through this, but if I don't take over. All right. First of all, to approve the home instruction tutor as listed below. Also to approve the contract for the Special Olympics. Alana Ren is going to take over that. Um to approve the overnight field trip for the JOTC to approve the Cleveland Site
016C Center's contract um for the rest of this year. And that concludes my action items. All right. Do we have a motion to approve the superintendent's action items? So move. Do we have a second? Second. Please call the role. Miss Garfin, I. Mr. Gart, hi. Mr. Hower. Hi. Mr. Parker. I. Mrs. Sigwood. I. Motion carries. Moving on to all personnel action items by the superintendent. Thank you. First of all, to announce the retirement of Bev Ritter, who's been an instructional PAR for 29 years in the district. We're sad to see her go, but wish her well in her next life. Also to approve the unpaid leave for classified staff as listed below. To approve the appointment of the following classified staff as listed below. A lot of moves from job to job to for better
017hours or what have you. As you can see there um to approve the following athletic supplemental contracts as listed below. I think finally we have our full track staff re ready to go. And I found out something I didn't know. Mr. Rainey was a long jumper in his younger days, so he's coaching the long jump. Um, also to approve the following athletic supplemental contracts for district certified and non-district coaches as listed below. To approve the appointment of the following certified staff. Um, we have a retired teacher that's going to help tutor at St. Mary's, which is awesome. and also to approve the appointment of the following administrator at the EEVCV. Do that backwards. Uh to approve the following district and non-district game workers as listed below to approve the termination of the following classified staff
018as listed below. And that concludes my personnel action items. Okay. Do we have a motion to approve the superintendent's personnel action items? So moved. Do we have a second? Second. Uh, would you please call the role? Mr. Parker. I. Mr. Hower. I. Miss Garfin. Hi. Mr. Gabart. Hi. Mrs. Seuin. I. Motion carries. So, I'd like to take just a minute to introduce our new administrator, Kate Patia. I said that right. Kate, if you want to come on up. Um, Kate has been working as a moderate intense teacher over at the I call it the village now because I always get the letters backwards for several years. Uh, eight 11 11. Wow. Wow. So, we we are really excited to have her. I think the staff is super excited. Her talent and her knowledge is unmatched.
019So, welcome to the administrative staff. Yeah. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you to your new position. Thank you. Thank you. What I'll tell you about preschool is there there are a lot of meetings, IEPs, ETRs. Uh Denise and Jackie would know better, but um a lot of meetings and I think with some of the moves we're doing this year and everything, that building's uh as big as all of our elementary. So, we thank you for for allowing us to add some support for Jackie there. All right. All right. Moving on. Do you have a superintendent report? Yeah, just a few announcements. Um, actually, uh, the weekend of April 11th through the 13th. And you can see our guy Xander in the little shop of I I did that right. Right. Xander, who are you playing? Patrick
020Morgan. All right. So come see the musical um on the 11th, 12th, and 13th. I think it's seven, seven, and two. Yep. So, as we know, all of our fine arts uh productions are always so spectacular. So, bring bring friends. Um also, we're in the midst of testing for like the next 30 days. So, uh, good luck to all of our kids, um, and what you're doing, but uh, hopefully, uh, on the 8th May hits soon because, uh, it's a lot. It's a lot. Um, we know the stress on the students and the staff. So, also on April 5th, preK registration, come out. Jackie, is that at your building? Yep. Childhood building. 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Great. 9:30 to 12 at the village. All right. Um, also on the 12th we have the Special
021Olympic Craft Fair and I think that's the one with the big Easter egg hunt, right? All right. So, bring bring the little ones out and uh that is at the uh different times for different age groups. So, it's all on the website and here is it's at the high school. The high school. I think they do the Easter egg hunt in the gym. And then the egg hunt is in the gym. Yep. A lot of good stuff there. Um, also at 11:30 next Tuesday is the state of the city and state of the schools um address. I know uh some of you are are able to come um and I'm looking forward to that. Also um this Saturday the reverse raffle. Are you MC? I wasn't asked. No. Bo, I should ask that before I
022announce it, right? Uh, are you coming? I'm going on a listener trip. Listener trip. All right. Well, I'll let you know if I win. Yes. Yes. I um I think this is about my 25th that I've been to straight. So, I'm looking forward to it. I have my numbers, so let me know if I Okay, I will. Um, but that's that's a lot of a lot of uh great things happening. and and uh you know, we talked about this a little bit um over the last week or so. So many great things happening in Aaria City Schools and I think we have to thank Owen out there for putting putting it out for us and doing some great articles about the wonderful things happening. But I'm so proud of what the staff and and administrators
023and the parents and students are doing it. It's just a lot of fun. So, thank you. That's it. Okay, moving on. and uh board of education. Does anybody uh have anything to I just want to um acknowledge and thank uh Mayor Kevin Brewaker for attending tonight. Um and I understand that he's been asked to attend again on at the next meeting. And also I would like to acknowledge Pastor and Lady Carter. Uh this is their first board meeting. They're kind of new to our area and um so if you would make them feel welcome. They have pastors at Jones Chapel uh in Eyria. So, yes, I think I've seen you at a few of the functions over at Second Second Baptist. Uh we No, not much. Yeah. Wonderful. Wonderful. Welcome. Welcome. For sure. It's uh
024on like 16th Street. Yeah. Just one thing and just I usually don't see uh large personal gifts like that with the contributions. What is there? Was a $3,000 gift. Yes. Um those who have been around for a while, Patty Bowwender was a beloved uh paraprofessional over at I believe Eastern Heights Elementary and um she battled cancer uh quite quite a while. Uh was very brave in the battle. Um and I think um that was her wish was to be able to um give back. She was I I believe a special education parapro and just a wonderful person and everyone misses her greatly but such a great tribute to her. I know Brian Kokai and Denise are working on some of the things she's purchasing and I believe one of them is a bench with just
025a little plaque or something that signifies it's wonderful. That's beautiful. That's nice. All right, moving along. One other Oh, you have one. Yeah, the mayor and I uh both arm wrestled. I won with my right hand. He won with his left. Good one. Good one, Mike. All right. because I do believe uh I'm going to ask for a motion for an executive session session to request an executive session to discuss the sale of property and to consider matters required to be kept confidential by federal law or regulations or state statutes under Ohio Revised Code section 12122 with possible action to follow. Do we have a motion? Motion. Second. Second. Madam treasure, please call the role. Mr. Mr. Hower. Hi, Miss Garurf. Hi, Mr. Gart. Hi, Mr. Parker. Hi, Mr. Seid. Hi,