001rock and roll all right i' like to call are you ready yeah okay I'd like to call our uh March 5th 2025 uh meeting to order uh Madam treasure you please call the rooll Mrs sein i m Garin I Mr Mr Gard here here Mr Hower here Mr Parker here all right if everyone wants to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance I know 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 uh we have uh Brent Parker to the our right Mr M gibart to my right uh vice president Annie ksten to my left board member louser and our superintendent Ann scho and our treasury Treasurer
002colen able all right we have no board recognition or presentations today uh visitors comments we do have uh someone signed up uh Mr Dave McFarland McFarland yeah if you want to just um come up to the table and give your name and address great sit down sure you probably don't have to now car the B yeah you can walk around and whatever you're comfortable give me the mic 30 seconds is all I really want I'm Dave McFarland uh L resident you want my address but that better that work yeah all right I really just wanted to take a minut I I've taught school for 38 years I've retired three times my wife put me back to work uh most recently I was in Cobra Beach Florida last year teaching school and of course and brought
003me back up here to this wonderful but uh being an educator for 33 years I retired from Berea um sitting on my sofo I listen to all the CRI of Lorraine and Lorraine football and I went to Lorraine some you guys may know that that's irrelevant but I taught seven years in Lorraine and then retired and then of course we uh saw this opportunity for the friend down in Florida so we went down there uh but the reason I'm here is real simple I've been fortunate to be in all four buildings the high school and all three Junior highs this year mainly as of latees the junior high schools and I'm sure you know this I really believe you know this but I want you to know I walk through these halls and students are
004where they're supposed to be they're in classrooms they're engaged it's creative it's it's exciting in the classroom the Halls are quiet typically in these pods in the junior high school I see students working maybe in a group outside of a classroom cooperatively and know what we really want and they're doing what they're supposed to do or you'll see students in our halls with somebody like me who's just tutor and invariably you'll see a child come out with the bathroom restroom passant and they'll do their thing but I just I've been here now almost a full year and I just wanted to express to myself because I I feel like I've done it for so long and so many different schools that hopefully it resonates to you that our school system I think you know this
005but our students and our Educators and our support staff and our Administration are as good as any place I've ever been last your Coco Beach trouble kids and getting them into into the classroom marijuana in the restrooms all the problems that are Universal to schools but I see just wonderful things here at L high school and I'm thankful to be here how long I'll be here I don't know but I am thankful I'm a part-time guy I just thought you the board should know this the community should know this that it's just a wonderful school district and instead of maybe looking at some of the kids that distract and we start looking at all the wonderful things that are happening in our school system especially for the levy coming up but just in general from
006ayria guy I just want to let you know how proud I am to be an Al employee right now more importantly just how proud I am of the schools that you guys have produced so I just want to thank you I don't want to take a lot of time and uh unless you want me to do a song and dance you got it on me or not pretty good I can do it that's excellent thank you I show anytime any time thanks Dave that's great that's great thank you thank you okay that's our that's our only um visitor visitor you guys are critical today what's going on I said visitor visitor okay the uh the meeting minutes have been posted uh do we have a motion to um so move second mam Treasurer please call
007the rooll Mr Gart I miss Garin hi Mr Hower hi Mr Parker hi Mr Sean I okay moving on Board of Education items item f um there is no specific Board of Education items treasure action items all right to accept the financial report for the month of January 2025 which includes all the Bank reconciliations investment report and cash balance report and that's the only action item I have all right do we have a motion to accept the treasure action items motion to approve second Madame Treasurer are any questions or if not Madame Treasurer please call the role Mr Hower I Mr Parker I miss gin hi Mr Gart hi Mrs sein hi okay do we have any treasure other uh no other um do have a mini report we got our issue number for the
008levy issue 19 and we updated um some facts um statement of facts on our website also if anybody has any questions you could always let um ask me but there we also put it on the website all right thank you Colleen all right superintendent action items thank you so much first of all to approve an overnight State F out of state field trip our uh Varsity softball team is going to Charlotte North Carolina they've been sanctioned to play in the tournament down there also another overnight field trip um our Northwood Middle School students are attending a group down at the Koga Valley um Park um March 18th and 19th um and then we have an A continued membership in the ohsaa for the 2526 school year can't believe we're already talking about next year um
009also to declare the impracticality of providing transportation for the following um pupils involved as listed below and that concludes my action items okay do we have a motion to approve the items recommended by the superintendent so moved do we have a second I'll second okay uh colen Miss Garin I Mr Gart I Mr Hower I Mr Parker I Mrs Sean I uh it looks like we have no superintendent other but we do have Personnel action items we do indeed first of all to approve the unpaid leave of absence for the following certified staff member also to approve the unpaid leave of absence for the following classified staff member retirement we seem to be getting more and more of these um to approve the um retirement of the following classified staff Steph Cary I can't believe
010she was my building um support associate when I was principal at Oakwood she is leaving us it's it's really a full 40 years but she also Subs so 43 total so uh it'll be hard to replace Stephany um she has so much historical knowledge also Kathy Cunningham who has been with the district for 28 years and several different capacities Helen cogin an instructional parah at Westwood Middle has been around Alyria for 29 years um Laura schwat a sped um pair professional at Eastern High middle 27 years and Susan sunle breakfast Monitor and server at Northwood for 25 years that's a lot of years with these five employees and and we will miss them greatly but we do wish them well and their new Endeavors we also have another retirement for certified staff Brad dedich grade
011six at Northwood leaving us after 32 years wow so uh we wish Brad um well in his retirement also we have to approve the resignation of the following classified staff member to approve the resignation of the following certified staff member um Kathy King she will be back she just needed some time away right now um also to approve the resignation of the following certified administrator Selena bigio um who is the coordinator of gifted and elll um we wish her well also to approve the resignation appointment of the following classified administrator we have um Eric Francis who is taking a chance to switch um jobs from a operation supervisor to a tech support technician um wanting to try something different also to approve the appointment of the following certified staff member a daily substitute um to
012approve the appointment of the following classified staff these are staff members moving from one position to the next and then to approve the following athletic supplemental contracts as listed below um and to approve the classified substitute compensation rates I think we sent you an email to explain this but this is in order to help us get more substitutes in those specific areas and that concludes my Personnel items okay do we have a motion to um approve uh the superintendent's Personnel action items so move do we have a second second we have any questions and if no questions Colleen will you please call the role Mr Parker hi Mr Hower hi M Garen hi Mr gabart hi Mrs Seguin hi okay moving on do um my report do you have a report yes just a few
013things here first of all next Thursday a week from tomorrow the Westwood Middle School I believe it's just the middle school is putting on a culture Fest uh Heights does one Westwood does one it's a nice um gathering for all the parents and students from 4: to 6 get to try different foods so um also uh kindergarten registration was last week last Saturday um just because we had that day doesn't mean we can't register at any time so please um registration is open sign sign the kiddos up I know in April we're doing a preschool registration um and those dates are are coming I'll have them at the next meeting um this weekend we have a Broadway play from Eastern Heights Middle School it's called the MTI Broadway junior Revival rise your voice did I
014say that right review I'm sorry awesome thank you um Amy but that's on Saturday at 700 pm. and Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center also we have three two uh lady pioneers and one um from the regular wrestling team um men's wrestling team um going to State we had three state qualifiers this year so we're really excited um lot of great wrestling this year our um ladies team actually plac second in sectionals so Paul Felton's doing an amazing job with them and chidlaw and um Armando and the whole Mr Bernett um and all of the um coaches from the men's team so congratulations and good luck that's it okay thank you my board of education items no I I just I had a comment in line with uh Mr McFarland regarding the
015buildings I had gone into Eastern Heights um twice in the past uh month um I went to visit the the art Department invied me in um just to sit in one of her classrooms and uh so I did I sat in art and then music and I went in the gym as well and I think it was all second grade I was super impressed with just the teachers um the kids were well behaved they were super engaged with the with what they were doing uh and then I went this week for the right to read week and read with the kindergarteners and that was really fun um it was a how to catch a leprechaun and just this the first of all the teacher in the kindergart class she had the leprechaun had went to
016her class in the morning and things were disrupted and um so the kids love that and then just the stories of these these kids leprechauns that they've caught at home and a couple of them still have them so it was really entertaining so I I I agree like what I'm seeing at Eastern Heights and that's the one I visited the most is is really good stuff so I got to do the the reading too and I I really appreciate the principles that ask us to come in and read and I've done it a couple times now and I got third grade this uh just today actually and it's it's an honor for for me to go in and read and do something with the kids so if you're out there and you want to ask
017please ask us we we I enjoy it yeah it's fun miss Friday I'm not sure if I should be offended my uh my dog gets the request set not me I saw your so but yes I guess that's okay but I would Echo that it's a it's a blast what what school were you at I was at Northwood Elementary and Eastern Heights Elementary yesterday for five different classrooms okay um but uh second second grade I Believe Miss Hanks is second grade yeah okay and then uh kindergartens yeah and just even in the halls I mean the kids are well behaved they're lined up they're uh oh and the play was going on what U what grade was the Arista cats yeah and that was really good too so I popped in and watched a little
018bit of that and we will be there on Friday mayor Brew Baker will be reading um at Eastern Heights at at 1:00 on Friday so yeah will be awesome awesome yeah okay then uh moving on if no no one else has anything to add then uh we do have an executive session so um do I have a motion uh to or requesting an executive session for the purpose of the appointment employment or compensation of an employee or official as provided in Revise Code 5794 to Revise Code 5709 43 I'll make the motion second okay P please call the roll Mr Gart hi Mr Parker hi hi M Karen hi Mr Hower hi Mr Sean I all right we're moving into executive session thank you