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Elyria Board of Education Meeting, March 19, 2025

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Source
YouTube / Elyria Schools Pioneer TV
Date
2025-03-21
Location
Lorain County, OH
Material
Transcript
Extent
1,931 words · about 11 min
Collected
2026-06-19

Transcript

Verbatim source text

001good all right uh I'd like to call our meeting to uh order Welcome to our Wednesday March 19th uh Larry City school board meeting and we're excited to be at Eastern Heights this is really nice um Madam Treasurer can you please call the role Mrs sein here M Kristen here Mr Gart here Mr Hower here Mr Parker here all right I'll 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 liy and justice for all all right I'd like to introduce our board members to my far right I have Mr Brent Park uh to my immediate right is Mr Mike Gart to my left is our vice president Annie Karin and to her

002left is len Hower board member and then we have superintendent anos and our Treasurer Colleen APLE all right visitors comments we have no visitors today but we do have a presentation and our superintendent is going to tell us a little bit about it I sure am um first of all I would like the administrative staff of Eastern Heights to stand up and just introduce them we have um start with the elementary principal Brenda Whitman and assistant principal Corey Adams and then at the middle school we have principal Jake Keefe and principal Dana Sero and assistant principal Todd church thank you um Aristocrats uh has it been what about two three weeks since we had the show up at the PAC was a Friday night uh from Eastern Heights Elementary and what I will tell you

003is uh I've always bragged about our fine arts department and it goes from K to prek to 12 actually it is just phenomenal and it's second to none but what I'd like to do first and I'm not sure who's around the corner but I'd love to have the advisers of the um drama club um and and we do have drama clubs way down in elementary now which is wonderful please come up to the mics and introduce yourself and then maybe give a little introduction to the um you you can use those mics probably yeah um introduction to what we're going to see thank you come on down hello welcome everybody to Eastern Heights um I'm Sarah Harding and I was the director of the aristocrat's performance manette hnet I was the music director Heather hail

004I was in charge of costumes props and the set and I'm Charlene heartley I acted as the production manager um so today you're going to see just a little snippet some songs from our production that we did back in February um if you don't know the aristocrats um Story the old movie um it's a story of a rich woman who has some very special cats she loves very much and she's going to leave them all her money in her will um but the evil Butler tries to foil that plan and with the help of some Alley Cats um everything turns out great so Sarah I think I'm not sure your mics are on um we heard you but I'm just worried about the the kids I'm make sure they're on hello yeah there you are

005there you go they're going to give you just a couple songs that kind of tell that story um we have just a partial cast today so they're going to sing and have a great time and I hope you enjoy it and if you haven't taken a look yet we have some pictures of our cast over here too we had about 35 students in the cast this is our second year with Disney musicals and schools um it's a really great partnership with Play House Square and we're looking forward to again next year thank you [Music] want to go that way a little bit more [Music] goodness it's important to have a well-round education you never you never know when a knowledge of Music might come in [Music] handy must learn your skills and bring the music

006ringing from your chest and while you s SKS and you're oh no not that horrible cater balling I hate that noise I wish I could stop that sound I wish I could sh them where they won't be I take the away of goodness P I got it or milk now put to sleep I can cat them J never have to hear them again you all [Music] gowhere yes [Music] [Applause] who am I [Music] cats got that right the got that to walk the scene the the that feel the grass that's those city [Music] streets Happ to me Daddy Room LA [Music] the world so if you going my way to see to [Music] home abrah she is suffocating she is suffocating [Music] thas I'm very proud of that [Music] oh yeah [Applause] [Music] everybody wants

007to be a cat because the cat's the only cat know it's [Music] at set back to the C horny bird toy to sing cat the only [Music] cat like [Music] go everybody everybody wants to be a [Music] cbody everybody to be toat want toat everybody want to a cat everybody wants to be a cat everybody wants to be a cat because the cat [Music] everybody want everybody everybody everybody wants to be a g [Applause] good luck follow that I know impressed I mean the girls too thank you so nice for you to come you work very hard and thank you know what you were great it was wonderful thank you wonderful great cute yeah it's a cat that's cute I love a cat very good [Music] where thank you thank you hey look shaking in

008hi what's your name wait a minute miles thank you so much miles the person good thing you take after awesome you a copy of our program and then also at the performance we sold shout outs so people could shout out their cast members and then also we have a little miniature Pat because every day the end of rehearsal they Pi the p so the student work really hard that day so also thank you very good job thank you thank you so much thank you great things happening right that was a great presentation all right moving along uh meeting minutes the meeting minutes have been posted do we have a motion to um approve the the meeting minutes so moved second okay mam treasur Please Mr Parker hi Mr Gart hi M Karin hi Mr Hower

009hi Mrs sein I all right Board of Education items we do not have any today but it looks like we do have some treasur action items we do thank you to accept the financial report for the month of February 2025 which includes all the bank reconciliation investment report and cash balance um in the attachment ments to acknowledge and express appreciation for the following donations we got a couple from the Eastern Heights Elementary PTO vendex Weare closet and the EO Tyler charitable trust thank you for those and that's it for the action items okay do we have a motion to approve the treasur action items so moov do I have a second second any questions on any of the items if not mam treasur please call the roll m Mr Surin I Mr Hower I Mr

010gabart I Mr Parker I Mrs Sean I uh do we have treasure or other no other and no report all right moving along to miss superintendent action items thank you so much first of all to approve the 2025 officers and trustee members of the a city school district endowment board as you see below um also to approve well first of all we thank all of these community members as always for doing the work because obviously it it all goes to our staff and students in the at the end of the day so wonderful work by all of these people also to approve the meta Solutions Master service agreement for fiscal year 26 it's hard to believe we're starting to approve things for next year to approve the renewal contract for power for schools as detailed

011below to approve the sponsorship agreement for the athletic um complex um to approve the outof State field trip for the All City school students that are going to the state special Olympic Games also to approve the primary service agreement with the Educational Service Center for 2526 and that concludes my action items okay do we have a motion to approve the T or uh the superintendent's action second you guys are in a hurry tonight can't even get it out okay um Mr Gart I Mr Parker i m cerin i Mr Hower I Mr Sean I all right do we have uh superintendent other that no other but I do have Personnel action items uh first of all to approve the retirement of the following certified staff Karen Hill she has been a school psych um all

012over the district this year lar high for 18 years so we congratulate her and and wish her be the best in her next life as we say um also to approve the resignation of the following certified staff member to approve the resignation of the following classified staff member is listed below uh to approve the unpaid leave of um absence for the following classified staff to approve the relief um from employment duties during probationary period for the following staff member to approve the appointment of the following certified staff as you can see we have more subs which is great also to approve the appointment of the following classified staff and some movement around from job to job and also to approve the following athletic supplemental contracts for the district and non-district coaches I do want to

013point out um one Jerry chismar has decided to coach he was just going to volunteer but he is going to work with Isaac and um Jackie as well as Alana um with and we have a former student Andy Palos is going to come he's still I think he's going to be a senior at PW it was a great track runner so uh it's coming along but wonderful additions also to approve the following athletic supplement El Al contract for the district or non-district coaches for next year as you can see that's all coming along um and that concludes all of my Personnel action items okay do we have a a motion to approve the Personnel action items recommended by the superintendent so moved second second okay M treasure please call the rooll Mr Hower i m

014garan i Mr gabart I Mr Parker I Mr C I um Miss superintendent do you have a report just uh a few somewhat announcements I wanted to start off by saying um I think um it was shared with you yesterday in the district once again we are being recognized in the All City schools for the awesome work that's going on every day the governor um of Ohio Mike dwine um put out kind of an initiative through Reed Ohio with the science of reading and um we had all five of our elementary buildings recognized which is phenomenal and I do want to recognize Mrs Matthews and her team especially for did you forget someone you can come on you're a baker aren't you uhhuh they left it in the room oh I won't take that as

015a bad side thank you Baker thank you so much um it some ice but anyway yes some ice cream there we go um I I think you know sometimes we take for granted um uh the work we do day in and day out because we just we just do it right because we know it's good for kids but but I will tell you the work that the staff is doing um each and every day is just remarkable and the work that a lot of the administrators in both um academic Services student services and across the district um it's wonderful and to be recognized I will tell you that I've been told we're on the short list for the governor to visit so that would be great but I think we were the only District that

016had multiple at least five schools recognized so very very nice recognition and kudos to all that work on it which is really across the district congratulations also um I would like to remind everyone this this Friday at 10:00 a.m. at Alia high is the unified basketball tournament um which is just I can't tell you how heartwarming it is and fun to watch um the students work together but um M Splat do we know how many districts are coming there six six districts are coming to the high school to play with the unified teams so um good stuff there if you have any time you can get away that's a wonderful opportunity also um just a few reminders the special Olympic craft show is April 12th I'll continue to remind you but it fills up the

017whole like I think cafeteria and some of the gym they do an Easter egg hunt we do Easter egg hunts in the gym and they're separated by age groups so kids um of the same age have a CH to do you have an adult one no that thank you also um on April 5th is the pre registration from 9:30 to 12 is that going to be at eevc Village The Village um which is the old Crestwood for those that might not know that also um testing is coming up I I keep saying to everyone I can't believe it's almost April but testing is beginning so we wish all the the students um good luck and I know that uh the teachers have done an awesome job of preparing you um also just a reminder if

018you haven't told me yet the state of the school state of the city address is at the college on April 8th I believe registration starts at 11:30 um and that is coming up uh mayor Brew Baker and myself will be um talking to you about all the wonderful things happening inaria and larious schools so we enjoy that um I will tell you the next two meetings April 2nd and April 16th we are going to honor some of the um clubs and or athletic teams teams that have have done some wonderful things um we've had we had a state champ in the Middle School robotics team um we had some wrestlers that went to State we had basketball teams that went to um tournaments girls wrestling middle school basketball won the championship um which was really

019neat so um just a lot of great things happening um in the a city school district thank you um um moving on do we have any Board of Education items or any we have no items but does anyone have anything to say usually you do Mike not today not tonight all right then I do not think we have an executive session so do we do we have a motion to adjourn so Mo do we have a second second please call the RO M curin yes I Mr Gart I Mr Hower hi Mr Parker I Mrs sein I all right meeting adjourned um pretty quickly at 5:54 and that was with the presentation yeah thank you Easter Heights

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