001I 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. Dr. Thompson. Yes. Thank you very much, Mr. Truster. Packed house. appreciate uh you guys calling up and uh it's a true tribute to some of the outstanding um achievements that our kids continue to make and and all the winter sports. And so I think we'll start with our winter sports all Ohio recognition awards tonight. Uh Mr. Rockwell. Thank you, Dr. Thompson. We have lots of uh certificates up here to give out and that's exciting news. I'm happy to report we had a fantastic winter um sports season. We'll sort of start in order of um where things happen. So, we'll start with our swim program
002because they had their state championships first. Um so, I'm happy to report that Brody Hicks finished fifth in the state in two events uh down at the Division 2 Ohio OSAA meet. Um down in fifth in the 53 and fifth in the 100 flags. he improved um on his finish from his sophomore season where he also finished in the top eight in the state uh in two events. So um congratulations to Brody. I'd also like to highlight that coach Brian Schneider was the News Herald area coach of the year. So if we can give our swim program Hicks Congratulations. [Applause] All right. I'd just like to thank Mr. Rockwell and Brian here for, you know, helping me get to accomplish this. And I think it's really amazing the swim program we have at Perry, you
003know, to be able to get kids to states and then also have brand new swimmers and be a successful team throughout. So, thank you guys. Thank you. Uh, and Coach Shider and Brody will be back and better than ever for next year. He's a junior, so he's ready to go for his senior year and we're excited what he can do in the pool. He works year round non-stop swim. Coach Shider does a great job not only with our Perry program, but if you read the article in the News Herald, he actually coaches multiple teams in Northeast Ohio and does a fantastic job with all of them. So, we're happy to have him. Lucky to have him. Uh, thank you gentlemen. Best of luck next year. Thank you. Our next honore is our gymnastics program and
004one of the first times in over 14 years that we're going to be able to honor somebody from gymnastics as an all-state finisher. Macy Freeman finished fourth place in the beam and fifth place in the all-around competition um down in Columbus. Um she is a freshman. Um so she's got a bright future ahead of her. Um we're very proud of her accomplishments. I know coach Arabs. I don't coach Arabs here. Let's see. Coach Jessica Arabs is our gymnastics coach. Very similar to our swim. Coaching multiple teams, multiple girls from schools all throughout Lake County. Uh so thank you to Coach Arabs. But Macy Freeman come on up. Fourth place in the fifth place all around. Congratulations Macy. All right, and moving on to wrestling. That was our next sport down at the state uh level.
005Um we have three allstate award winners that we'd like to recognize. We'll start with our girls program. Um Abby Cornwell finished seventh in the 110 lb weight class. Gigi Dominish finished third overall in the 105 pound weight class. And uh on our boy side, Chance Schlow, fifth place at the 150 pound weight class um on the boy side. So again, the good news with all of these wrestlers, they're all underassman. Um Chance is a junior. Gigi is a freshman and Abby is a sophomore. So they're going to all be back and ready to go, working already um on some freestyle, off campus, doing some stuff already, getting ready for next year. So Chance, Gigi, and Abby, please come on up. get a quick picture and then we'll get our coaches up here. All right. Well,
006you guys stay up there so we get a whole picture. Um, I want to recognize our two um two coaches from our wrestling programs. Dan Trenelli is our head wrestling coach here at Perry High School. He was named the 2025 Greater Cleveland Wrestling Coaches and Officials Association um coach of the year for our district in Northeast Ohio Division 2 Coach of the Year. Coach Trent Nelly, please come on up. Dominic was named the 2025 girls wrestling coach of the year for the News Herald area. Congratulations, Teresa. Coach Dominish, come on up. very similar to swimming in Macy in gymnastics. Macy's working year round um you know four or five days a week out at legs and menor our wrestling program is doing the same thing our coaches are starting our offseason program I guess I
007mentioned with the going to spir freestyle and things like that really proud of what the time and effort that our coaches put in um to help meet our kids goals. So, congratulations to all of our winter sport and this is sort of a pseudo winter sport and he can't be here tonight, but I did want to take the opportunity to recognize Armani Chapony. Um, he was our state champion in the indoor um state meet, which is actually we're very lucky we don't have to travel far. It's over at Spire. Um, it was in late February, but Armani was our state champ in the high jump, 6'5 in. He's going after our our school record of 67. He's right there again. and he couldn't make it tonight. But congratulations to Armani Armani and our track. Thank
008you, Mr. Rockwell. And uh thank you. Congratulations to coaches. And again, thank you to all our student athletes for your hard work and dedication. You certainly continue to make us proud to do and you represent very well. So, thank you again so much for coming out tonight and getting that well-deserved recognition. Um you guys are welcome to stay got some more. Oh, we have more. Yeah. Oh, okay. Done. We're going. It's the season. Um and so next on our spotlight of learning, uh I'm so excited and uh really near and dear to my heart. Uh one of the goals we've always had uh in my time here was to to work to create and maintain a positive caring culture. And the process in that uh is to you know pursue greatness uh get better every
009day uh power relationships uh stronger together and then that personal responsibility and try to be prepared for life and our Perry service learning program who has well they have been established for a long long time. Um I think Dr. Berky is the credit you give uh to to getting this thing started back in the day Mr. Soder. uh they embody everything about that and so uh it really is uh special to have them here tonight and provide accommodation uh for award they received and uh Mr. Purcell will you come up? Sure. Um first off congratulations to all of our student athletes and our coaches. Awesome. It's fun to watch your journey along the way. um PSL uh phenomenal program um as Dr. Thompson said it started um back in 2004 a group of staff students
010and administration got together start a service learning program and we can do the math on all the numbers um 10,000 hours per year uh is the estimate on the amount of hours that our students are giving back to the community times 20 years we're looking at over 200,000 hours of service. Um and and so during that time there's a lot of lives impacted both on those on the receiving end of the service and then for our students and the growth that they get to have from that experience. Um ultimately we could dive into all the numbers. PSL comes down to it's a life-changing experience both for those on the receiving end and uh especially our students. Um, when you look at a lot of our alumni that have gone out and done great things, and
011I'll put a little plug in, there's a donor appreciation night next Wednesday, uh, where our PSL teachers work to, uh, show appreciation and sort of do a year in review. There will be a 20-year highlight video with different interviews from alumni that have been impacted, uh, by the PSL program and the service and what they learned in that class. Um, so, special thanks to Mark and Allison for their work, for the vision that they've had. uh they've been the model of what we want in our school as far as like continuing to evolve the classroom. Every year they're looking to do something better. One of the things that I think really helped them take to the to the next level is when they came with the idea of moving over here to Manchester West with
012the Center for Civic Engagement where they able to expand the food pantry and work with the clothing uh room there and and really take it to another level. Uh so special thanks to Mark and Allison uh for the vision that they had of of excellence, always questioning how they can get better and always questioning our students, what does your community need from you? And our students have responded and uh what what a wonderful program. I look forward to the to the next 20. So Mark and Alison, come on up here at this time. beautiful just real quick say, you know, it's obviously not just us. Uh so on behalf of all the students uh the nonprofit lead leaders, the community partners, the community members uh who have helped shape PSL, uh thank you so much
013for this recognition. The success of PSL is really driven by students who believe they can make a difference in the world and the community that supported them all along the way. And we're especially grateful to be part of a school district that provides world-class opportunities like service learning for our kids. So thank you. And then lastly, uh, as per service learning continues to grow, uh, I'm sure you're aware of all the excellent work that's now been happening in the elementary school last few years with Mrs. Darnell. Uh, the the serial box uh, piece that happened, never thought that would be pulled off the way it did, but it's been that's one example of the amazing things that Mrs. Darnell has been able to accomplish by expanding our service learning into the elementary and uh it's
014our hope uh through the independent study uh this year uh expanding um our number maybe uh uh with some some vision of of another program that we'd like to add to that and then Mrs. Darnell has been nice enough to come in tonight to provide us with a presentation and update on how that uh vision is going and uh where we might get to. So, come on up. Let's start. He's making me say a little more than everyone else, so I try to be quick. Um but thank you so much for having me here today. I really appreciate it. I first want to say thank you for um my my experience at Perry for the last 25 years teaching the children in Perry um and now the wonderful education that my daughters get here as
015well. Uh and for allowing me to share my passion for community service with our elementary school. Um I absolutely love the difference that our students get to make. I it's I can't tell you how much it means to me. um they're doing amazing things to spread kindness and through the work that my students have been doing, I've been seeing a connection and a love they have for animals and whether it's through sharing stories of pets they have or asking for animals to visit um or the powerful impact that that captain has had on all of them whose presence has noticeably had this positive effect um on their well-being. I've witnessed this in other schools as well um with a with an animal therapy animal at the school. Um I was able to go to Upper
016Arlington School District and the Green Intermediate School District and they have a working facility dog that is there daily with the students. Um I was able to shadow one of them. His name was Shakespeare. He's a facility dog at Green Intermediate School and I observed just the unbelievable impact and constant presence he has for the students. Um these connections inspired an idea and the idea was what if we could have a therapy or facility dog that would be at our school on a more permanent basis. A dog who would become a consistent presence for the students who would be trusted in our learning environment and a valuable part of our service learning work. The dog would do things like help students regulate emotions and reduce anxiety, support social emotional learning by empathy, responsibility, and connection.
017Um, encourage literacy and engagement, especially for reluctant readers. Um, one of the teachers in Payneesville who retired had a dog there with her for eight years and she told me there was a student that would never read to anyone except the dog. um and play a role in the community and service learning initiatives centered on care and compassion. Uh the dog we are training to be certified as a facility animal is a mini Bernie doodle named Rocky. He will be going through a rigor rigorous and specialized training over the next six months. If successful, he will be certified to work in environments like schools where they learn to remain calm in high energy situations, respond to commands reliably, and offer emotional support in a safe and appropriate way. The program includes training me as a
018handler to ensure that we both are well equipped to work effectively and responsibly with students so that all students feel comfortable. Um, this isn't just about having a dog on campus. It's about integrating a well-trained dog for purposeful partner in our learning community so that children can truly be supported with their well-being and their learning. Um, even more exciting is that the dog trainer is a perry graduate. Her name is Katrina Crin and she owns um, Grand River K9. Uh, we've already taken meaningful steps to make this dream a reality. Initial funding has been secured to cover part of the costs associated with bringing the dog into our facility, including the preliminary training. The Buser Family Foundation has already started funding the community um by helping in our uh in our classroom and our community
019engagement PLC was awarded the senior class of 2025 grant to help us make further connections with the high school students as well. In addition, we've applied for the Martha Holding Jennings grant to provide additional funding to support the remaining cost. Um, this includes fully training process, certification, and resources to integrate the dog into a school setting effectively and safely. Thank you for allowing me to present my vision. I just want to show you one last thing. This might make you feel really excited. This is Rocky. Um, and I found out that schools across the United States that have dogs in their facility, they actually do training cards. And so they send them to the different schools with dogs. So I made you each a training card. Um, because then we can focus on where other
020schools have dogs, what they're doing in their school to help with the students. Um, and we can make more connections with other classes. Um, so thank you again for allowing me to present our vision. Um, by adding a facility animal to the chief service learning program at PES, I am confident that Rocky will have a lasting and positive impact on our students both emotionally and academically. Do you have any questions? Anyone? No. Very thorough. Sounds like you guys have done your homework for sure. We've been working hard enough when we train. He he should be by um our goal is at the end of August and we've been working with Mrs. Capo to make sure we have you know the appropriate liability insurance and all those things are in place. So there's there's a couple
021things that uh have to happen but we wanted to give you guys an update so if uh come August you have a new member to the Perry uh ship uh you guys are aware of it and and I once again just appreciate the work so much. I mean, this is this has been a lot of work. So, I'm training no channel and um we're gonna we're gonna help your husband long tail. He'll be fine. And but um just appreciate the work and and hopefully it goes well and uh those kids will really prosper out. Thank you. Thank you. That concludes my spotlight. I just want to say um thank you to everyone for coming. I think it's such a privilege to get to see how wonderful you all are doing and all the good things
022happening in the district. Um a lot of thanks to the teachers and parents and coaches and everyone who works so hard to make sure that our kids are well-rounded and well prepared for life because academics are important, but we know that there's so much more that goes into creating good contributing humans. And I think you guys are all doing an amazing job and it's a great great school to send my kids to and raise our kids in with all the work that you all do. So, thank you for that. Congratulations to all of the kids, too. Congratulations to all of you. Congrats. Thank you for coming. Thank you. And now, I was going to say earlier, I jumped the gun. I got a little nervous. There's a lot of people here. You are welcome to
023stay for as much of the meeting as you like, but if you wish to leave, you may do so now. No speaker. All right. Okay. Do we have any committee report? No. Administrative update. Dr. Thompson. Uh thank you. Yeah. Just have to mention uh the high school musical last weekend. I hope uh uh some of you or all of you got out there to see um our version of Cinderella. Uh the cast and crew uh they did an outstanding job. It's amazing the number of kids involved in that play. And then having a live orchestra pit is something special as well. And uh they put that together in very little time. and uh Mr. Miller and the gang that's down there playing live music. Uh it really it sets it apart from other plays and
024so I really enjoyed it and congratulations to Mrs. Hunter for again another successful uh play. Uh Leadership Lake County, congratulations to middle school student L'Oreal Ludiki uh who earned the honor of top networker and was awarded $500 at the Leadership Lake County networking challenge. Uh during the challenge, the students earn points for eye contact, a handshake, and the ability to hold a conversation. How about that? And a networking event with business and community leaders across our county. Uh we might be talking a little bit about house tonight. Uh Central Road shed repair. Uh thank you to our home renovation students and their instructor, Mr. Susie, for their work repairing the sheds on Central Road soccer fields. Uh they went to work repairing the roof siding and replacing the doors. Uh this was yet another great
025real world experience for our students which resulted in a benefit for our community. How'd that go, Mr. Zuz? Is it all completed? Um the roof is about half finished and we're starting the prep food sign. Awesome. We had the rain today and last week's raining. So, you know, high school kids with big metal ladders. Maybe not rain. Well, we we certainly appreciate you guys stepping up and and you know, on a moment's notice being asked to help out and and doing that for us. And make sure you uh thank our kids uh for for it as well. And then, you know, again, while it's still April, it's feeling more and more like May. And uh May is certainly a month of celebrations where we uh where we reflect a little bit on the year and
026uh celebrate all the wonderful accomplishments uh that that have happened. And uh so here we go though. The art show and student learning showcase is coming up next week uh on Thursday uh April 24th. I hope you guys can get out and see all the wonderful artwork. And uh they really do uh u transform our buildings with uh loads of artwork. It's amazing the amount of work these kids do in a year. And then right along with that go it's spring concert week, right? So, I think Tuesday it's PHS 22nd, fifth and sixth grade to 23rd and 7th, 8th grade to 24th uh for their concerts. Uh jazz and bucks start about 50 minutes. So, there's still time and hope that we can get over there and and see that performance as well. Uh so,
027uh exciting times. And then you will see on the board agenda a request uh for uh the board to approve the graduation class of 2025. Uh May 18th uh will be uh the graduation ceremony and moving it up uh normally at 2:30 start. Uh this year we're moving up to uh 1:00, right, Mr. Pelle? That's correct. So I hope to see you all there. And that concludes my administrative update. Thank you, Dr. Johnson. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Second. Roll call, please. Mrs. Fley, yes. Mr. Light, yes. Mrs. Yes. No. Yes. Dr. Thompson. Uh, personal personnel acceptance of retirement. The board is asked to accept the retirement of the individual listed for a position noted as recommended by the local superintendent. Under B, personnel acceptance of resignation. The board is asked
028to accept the resignation of the individuals listed for position noted as recommended by the local superintendent. C, personnel approval appointment. Uh, the board is asked to approve the appointment of the individuals listed for the position indicated pending successful completion required paperwork, certification, training, and background check as recommended by the local superintendent. Under D, personnel approval of employment curriculum. Uh the board is asked to approve the employment of the individual listed to complete the curriculum work at the rate of pay of $36 per hour and for the maximum number of hours indicated as recommended by the local superintendent and assistance. Under E personnel approval appointed independent study. Uh the board has asked to approve the employment of the individuals listed for the second semester independent study supplemental position rate indicated for the 2024-25 school year as
029recommended by the local superintendent and principal under F personnel approval appointment athletic department. Board is asked to approve the individuals noted for the position indicated pending successful completion of required employment paperwork, background check and certification as recommended by the local superintendent and athletic director. Under G personnel approval employment athletic supplementals uh the board is asked to approve the employment of the individual listed for the 202425 athletic supplemental position and rate of pay indicated pending successful completion required employment paperwork certification training and background check as recommended by local superintendent and athletic director. under eight personnel approval of summer camp workers. The board has asked to approve the individuals listed as volunteer workers for the 2025 summer camp and leagues as recommended by the superintendent and athletic director. Quite an extensive list under I personnel approval of
030appointment substitutes. Uh the board is asked to approve the individuals noted for the 202425 daily substitute position listed pending successful completion of required employment paperwork certification and background check as recommended by the local superintendent. Uh J approval of facility use for summer camps. The board has asked to approve the use of the district athletic facilities for the following 2025 summer camps and links as recommended by the local superintendent athletic director and K class of 2025 attaches a list of tenative candidates for graduation in the PHS class of 2025. The board is asked to prove the name subject to the completion of all requirements to receive diplomas at the conclusion of 2425 school year as recommended by the local superintendent by the principal. We have uh L approval of out of state travel. The board is
031asked to approve out of state travel listed as recommended by the local superintendent and assistant superintendent. All those paid by title funds and approval of first reading. The board is asked to consider the following revised board policies as the first reading for future action as recommended by the local superintendent. Draft policies are available for your review and policy uh approval. Second reading. The board has asked to adopt the new revised board policy listed as recommended by the local superintendent. Uh we do have an update on one of those policies. I believe it's um 5223. Uh with some of the changes that we're making at the federal level, uh we're adjusting policies quicker than we can get them approved. So we're going to go ahead and with just a few little additions uh to 5223. It's
032just an insert that uh uh to the following sentence. The district shall collaborate with the sponsoring entity to identify a time for religious instruction to be offered during the school day. And then we add prior to establishing release times for that instruction. And also there was an option that we were going to include uh talking about private entities proposing to provide religious instruction during release time. That is now being recommended that it's deleted. So, we'll be knocking that option out of our policy. And this concludes my superintendent report. Is there a motion? Second. Any discussion on 5223? Can you What are we doing? Okay. So, that's release time for religious instruction during the school day. Uh you probably recall we talked about that policy in the first reading that it's uh under the new Ohio
033code we're required to negotiate with uh religious entities that want to provide instruction during the school day for for our students. Um it has to happen off-campus and uh and they and the way we've written the policy or adopted policy is it it cannot be done during core instructional time. And so uh and so we went through the first reading and we're asking for the second reading approval tonight with those additions that I just explained. Okay. It looks like in this did we strike out the requirement for a background check because I thought we wanted to keep that requirement. Uh where would you see that? On page the bottom of page one into page two. That second option we did want to keep. We can still keep correct the requirement that they be background checked
034according to the school standards. Ohio this red part no here right there. Um it says private entities proposing to provide religious instruction and release time is set forth in shall be required to provide the district with criminal record checks. Let's come back. Documentation must be provided by the board upon request. We had discussion on that and I believe there's an acknowledgment that they're signing off that all instructors will have a background check, approved background check, and they're they're signing an assurance to make sure that happens. So, we're not required to have them submit we're not requiring to have them submit background checks for all their instructors. So, it's just going to be an assurance that they're going to sign. I believe that's What about the people we're releasing the kids to? So, what if they're
035transported? What if a private Well, that that would be included that would be included in the insurance assurance that they're signing off that all the folks are going to be background checked and appropriate that uh pick them up. That's what I recall. Now, I can look at that a little closer. I would like to see if we can keep that requirement to to show background checks. I know that that's what we've heard from the community is that they were really concerned about background checks and they keep being released to people without background checks. They can do their stuff but like at least if it's possible to keep let's go ahead and keep it and so we'll make a note to now not strike that. Okay. And we will keep it and so that you know
036so upon request they would have to revise us. Okay. And if there's any issue with that if I check the legal I think the law is written so that it's either or either either they have to be background check or the owner or officer of the company can provide insurance. So maybe you want to keep it as an either or. Okay. Because I think that's the way the law is written. Yeah. If we however we have to keep it, but I think we should air on the side of caution and make it as strict as possible. So if we have the right to request those and see the actual background checks because we don't know who these people are going to because that is a recommendation from the Yeah. that we strike that. Yeah. I
037don't think that that's I will double check. We'll call Ed Holland and double check on that to see, but we're going to straight we're going to we're going to keep that in there for now and if that's a problem, I'll bring it back to the board next. I think we should too because I think my question comes down to the transportation portion of it because we're not the ones transporting the student. Right. So, what if if the other entity is contracting with the service provider that provides transportation, that's another layer of Right. who's in who's in the mix here. Okay. I think we should leave it there. We'll talk to um our representative from Niola and legal and make sure that that's really clear, but right now we're going to vote on that as staying
038in. Okay. Thank you. Um was there any other discussion, any policy discussion before we move? Most of these are coming from new laws that are required. We are required to have that in there. Yep. Okay. Um, there's no more discussion and roll call, please. Mr. Leic, yes. Mrs. Der, yes. Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Ho, yes. Mrs. Capo, thank you. A Perry Village SRO's. The board is asked to approve the 2025 2026 school resource officer memorandum memorandum of agreement between Perry Village Police Department and Perry school as recommended by the local superintendent and chief financial officer lacbou. The board has asked to approve a memorandum of understanding between the Perry Board of Education and the Lake Erie College regarding establishment of a partnership between the Lake Erie College School of Education and Perry Local School District to
039support the professional development of the district's teachers by providing accessible and affordable advanced education opportunities as recommended by the assistant superintendent and chief financial officer. C. Contracts and agreements ales contracting. The board has asked to approve a 5-year lawn care services contract extension for the 2026 through 2020 2030 seasons from Lake County Lake sorry Lake Erie Shores contracting with the terms and conditions set forth in the contract documents in the initial annual amount of $78,220.78 as recommended by the chief financial officer and the director of maintenance and operations. D approval of expenditure parent square. The board has asked to approve an expenditure in the amount of $14,014 to go to Parent Square for the district mobile communications application and website as recommended by the chief financial officer, director of communications, and assistant superintendent. E approval
040of expenditure in Motorola. The board is asked to authorize an expenditure of $114,13963 to Motorola for new bus radios as recommended by the chief financial officer, local superintendent, and director of transportation. F. Approval of expenditure loalis loales. The board is asked to approve an expenditure in the amount of $17,694.3 cents to loal for the replacement and update of the district PA announcement system. uh as recommended by the director of IT and chief financial officer. G acceptance of grant funds second transition. The board is asked to accept the strategy second transition grant in the amount of $2,170 and to approve the appropriations for such grant to be placed in fund 499 SEC 9225 as recommended by the chief financial officer. And this concludes my chief financial officer report. Thank you. Is there a motion? Second. Any
041discussion? A question with F first. Is that is that the similar to the one that we replaced? Is it two years ago? Uh no, the the PA system is original to the buildings at all. So it's those the ones within like the classrooms and stuff. Yes. And so this will make them uh better for safety security for lockdown announcements. um they integrate with our IT funds. Um it's part of the u 10ear capital plan and uh we did get a 40,000 grant to help cover part of the cost. Oh, good. That safety grant. Yeah. So it'll be 67 out of the out of the total cost shown. Oh, good. Um okay. So the one we replaced before was more like the phone system or the radio system. Yeah, we we just recently replaced the phone
042and that and this will integrate with those new phones that we got. So, yeah. Okay, that's what I'm really talking about. And that you said was already in the 10. This was already Yeah. Part of Smith plan. I had a question about the parent square. Is that in addition to or replacing messengers? Uh it it works with within campus. Yeah. So, um it's going to allow like teachers to to message their entire class at once without having to use a personal phone call or coaches. Um it allows for two-way communication, but it also works like the messenger where we can just put something out. It also allows um Al to uh make one post and it'll send it to all of our social media outlets without having to go to each one. So, increase communications
043always. Yes. Definitely. So, is it replacing Infinite Kimp's messenger or just renaming it or is it just a different tool? I think it's I think it we're not getting rid of Messenger. Okay. Um, we're still discussing these. Yes. For letter A, it says approve the 2526 contract. It's not an annual. Is that is there a termination to the contract or is it open-ended after year? Um, it's a memorandum of understanding. So, I think it's it's there's no date end date on it. Yeah, you have a there's a 120day out notification. So, anytime you want to sever the uh understanding just you have to get notice, three-month notice. So, the recommendation will be that we keep it on as a standing item, say like in February, March, review it and see what we want to do
044for the next school year. And at that point we could discuss it because that gives us plenty of time if there's any variations or anything you wanted to do differently that's more than the 120 days. Yeah. We're going to meet quarterly to reconcile and then make payment and make and see if there's any adjustments. So, it'll be more than annually, but and I can't recall, do we have anything here that says when we would get notified if there's an increase or obviously the step we have the step scale, will there be like yeartoear um if step zero increases for next school year? When will we be notified so that we would have adequate time to plan for additional funds? Yeah, it it's a public record. it's action of by the council and so it's it's
045it's it's it's open. I you know we could we could certainly out of out of courtesy I think Mayor Gig would be happy to let us know if there's any changes in that. Now every 3 months you know it's it's it's an interesting understanding because based we're instead of instead of giving a base cost we're going to calculate based on who's working. So, it's going to be adjusted depending on if there's a sub in there, absenteeisms, uh the the level of pay of whatever officer is working there. So, it's going to adjust in real time so that it's an actual co, you know, their cost will be all we pay and then so it'll be interesting to see how that works. But uh I I mean much more frequently looking at how those things are
046going uh than we have in the past for sure because up till this point any agreement was we just paid a lump sum at the be in August the beginning of the year and that's honestly last time we would look at it think about it as a matter of fact you know I think this last contract uh the the council the village police uh were able to get grant funding and then then applied that grant funding to the cost of the second SRO and so actually um they probably paid some for our services in the last contract. So if there were grant funding available, how would that would that offset our cost in the future too or how would that work if there Absolutely. If the the agreement, the understanding is that we're going to
047recover we're going to pay the actual cost of what it what the village police department pays cost them. So whatever adjustment happens on a quarterly basis, we're reconciling that and Mrs. Capo is uh has that language and and is an agreement that it's that it's workable to do that. Um and we'd love to reduce costs as they would if that's if that's an option. It's my understanding that we'll get invoiced with itemized on what exactly we're paying for and what the benefits are. Correct. Like it'll be all broken out to exactly what we're paying for. What's the base? What's the benefits? Right. Yeah. I would expect that they would give us probably copies of Yeah. That's very dependent on because as you know based on when you talk about benefits if somebody takes it in
048lie of that's going to be $8,500 versus if somebody's taking family insurance it's going to be quite a bit more. And so those so it'll it could fluctuate significantly uh based on based on those um those health benefits and those things. So I have a question too regarding and I appreciate first of all I want to say I appreciate all the time that's gone into creating thisou. So I'm thankful that we have this here and we're making this progress. I think that's great. I just want for I want to make sure we're clear and and that we have a nice tight contract here that orou sorry it's anou got it up. Um the when it says that when it says the 120 days prior to the end of the contract, but yet there's no end
049of a contract, right? Or there's no end of the MOU, I'm sorry, there's no end date. And then it says that it begins at the start of the school year. I think it would be clearer and it would be helpful if we had a definition of the start of the school year by saying something like on the students first day so that we know annually that this goes into effect on the students first day. So it's not misinterpreted as August 1st or August 20th or August 15th. It's the students first day. They're yeah their service they have 180 days that they're for eight hours they're expected to be here and that's currently for one more year that's currently our the number of instructional days we have and so whatever day that is that's when the
050SRO's will begin uh August 1st is when the first invoice it is is delivered to us I believe yeah I just I would like it to state state that in the context but the first day of school changes year out. So it could state students first day. I just it just says begin beginning of the school year. I think that's just left untied. I called Emily and asked her for clarity on that today and she said that the way it's written it would be the understanding of the first of the 180 school day year. Yeah, that's what and she said that that's pretty standard across these agreements. Um she said this agreement is pretty standard with all the district most of the districts she works with and and right and so year the the second
051year if this continues it'll be 179 days that'll be an adjustment right because that's we've kind of agreed to that in our proposal with our PCTA so then the 120 would go backwards August 1st what 120 what from the first day of the 180 school year school year because kids are in class 180 days. It's the first day of the 180day school year and if we make any adjustments and that's that's where the adjustments anytime there are students we have instructional days we we hope to provide SRO services for their protection if they're having a school day and we change those sometimes right uh you know theoretically if we had enough clammy days you'd move the count you'd move days and we do makeup days and so we need to have that kind of flexibility
052because we you know If kids are in our buildings on a regular day, we would expect that they're in. I just thought we would define start of school year. But if you're saying we don't need to and that's what our legal council advised us of, then you know, they're the experts here. Um, just want to make sure that we understand what that means. Um, did you mention, Jen, that there would be a capable breakdown of costs. So, I understand we have the salary of the individual and we're paying the total cost that it costs to employ that person for the time that they're here. Um, in addition to that, it said retirement. It says it in the parenthesis here. So, can we define retirement like that? It's the the employer's contribution because it doesn't state
053that it all it says is retirement. We're paying all the retirement whether it's we would be the we would pay their contribution and whatever they normally would get paid. But we would pay the employees contribution and it doesn't it doesn't state that we're paying the employers requirements. We that's includ included in a salary because the employees part would come out of that salary amount and then it would be 24% paying it. Well, so isn't that like paying the employees contribution? We pay they're going to make if they make $32 an hour, 24% of that gets sent to their retirement out of their portion. But the village or we would have to pay the 32% the $32. That's just how it gets divied up. Okay. But the cost of the hour is $32 and then part
054of it goes here and part of it goes Does that make It makes sense. Yeah. I just the way it was written to me was just kind of again I thought it would be helpful if it was tightened up the way it was written. So it was how I don't know how like defined just defined because it it states in the in theou it says that we would be paying salary health benefits retirement contributions Medicare and cost of required SRO training right I mean I guess we could say the villages share of but but all but what you're talking about the employee share is already included in that salary number. Yeah, we were talking back here the the village is not paid the employee share. They only pay the employer share which is 19 and
055a half%. That's that's the village cost just like ours for school boys is 14 is 19 and a half. It's 19 and a half currently. However, there's legislation that is going to increase over the next four or five years a graduated amount each year. But it still would not be the employee share. HBO but a higher a higher rate than legally required cost is so the employee share is in that that no just like taxes are but you don't pay taxes right you pay so if you get paid $30 an hour the there's an additional expense that goes to retirement system that isn't a village expense that's an employee goes to the retirement system employer share that the employer. Yes. But the the the if you get paid $30 an hour. Yes. And your taxes
056come out of that and all that. We paid you $30 an hour and then we we send the stuff where it needs to go. But it cost us $30 an hour to have that person. Right. It cost 30 employee shares within that $30, right? I'm saying it's in the salary. It's not additional. employer share is outside right employee share will be assumed by them so we don't need to indicate what that percentage is well it's going to change we don't know I mean it's a it's a moving target just like clarification is employer contribution well it's not that the whole the whole what it's stated in this is we pay like we will pay what the village is paying them we pay their cost right regardless of what their cost is we pay their cost.
057So if it's 25% retirement or 12% retirement, we pay their cost. Right. But it would be helpful if we have an estimate what that is. We don't have Well, we did the numbers today and if if I put the highest I did a number with the the highest paid employer over there based on latest council approvement. Uh uh so if we had two of those, which they only have one right now, it would max out of pocket for the district would be 175,000 for two of the highest paid employer, which there's only one chief. I'm not I didn't say that. I didn't say that. You know, so that's your that's your max out of pocket. And then if you want to talk SRO training, there's multiple ways to do training. Uh Chief Williams is very
058uh good at describing, you know, uh we the current one of two of the current ones, one of them got it done this year online. Cost us cost about $400. In the past, a previous SRO went to Columbus for four days. Uh so you pay $400 registration fee, but now you're paying for lodging, couple hundred bucks a night. Now you get into about $1,000 there. You're going to pay some food and that and then and travel. That could be, you know, a max of a couple thousand if they want to go and spend 4 days. And if then if you had a replacement there, you would have to pay that as well. So by my estimate, it should be about $130 to $160,000 a year about where So then on August 1st, we pay like
059a quarter installment and then we reconcile at the end of that quarter. Yes, correct. Yes. Based on absenteeism, sub rate versus snow days. Yeah. Snow days, no work. Yeah. I mean, all those things get adjusted and it and I I want to thank the the I mean, we've done a lot of contracts. Um, Mr. Dant and Mrs. Gable any there's always an administrative fee and they've waved any administrative fee. We're we're not paying a 5% like we do with any ESC that comes and provides legal services. we're paying some level of administrative fee and they have not included that. I I appreciate that. I'm not not putting that in there. Any other discussion? The lawn care contract, that's pretty standard. No, no drastic increases in the lawn care contract. That's uh No, no. Um the
060lawn care right now it's at 76. Okay. So it's not a big increase. Still is. Yeah. And it does have it does have a 2% increase per year on tax. And we're happy with the work they've been doing. Yes. Okay. Mr. Smith. Okay. Roll call, please. Um Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Yoli. Yes. Mrs. Foley. Yes. And Mr. Light. Yes. Okay. Um Dr. Mr. Thompson, we missed the superintendent's addendum report. Not a problem. Uh, thank you. Uh, under superintendent's addendum report part one. Uh, we have approval appointment summer stretch, the board is asked to approve the individuals listed for the summer stretch position noted as recommended by the local superintendent and voting principal. Under B, approval appointment head custodians. The board is asked to approve the employees listed to be summer head custodians as recommended by the
061local superintendent, director of maintenance operations. And this concludes my superintendent agenda report part one. Is there a motion? Any discussion? I have one question. Um, so summer stretch is approved. Is summer wreck happening? Does anyone know? Is summer wreck? Nobody. Dr. Mchesky has been working that out with the rec with wreck. I haven't I haven't heard a word whether it's going to be together or not. Mr. You happen to know your record, right? We don't get a lot of communication. Okay. From director. Okay. We call a lot. I do not know. All right. We'll try. I think that that's something worth trying to find out so we can put information out there if there is. We can ask our two people that are appointed. Yeah. Hand up. Oh, yes. Yes. My head. My last understanding
062um is that last year they worked with great day but that this year they are not working with great day. So we last year it worked it went summer stretch kids went to great day if they did both and then were part of summer. Um I I don't think that that partnership is happening this summer. That's the last I heard when I had a meeting with great day about our summer stretch. That's disappointing. So we don't think there's summer wreck. I don't know if there's summer wreck. and just know that it's not connected on a great day. Okay. Well, I think that's something worth looking into. I think it's a good service. The kids been here for How long have we had some of that? Years. We had it when I was in school in
06307. I've only heard about the basketball communication with running it. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Any other discussion? Roll call, please. Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Foley. Yes. Mr. Light. Yes. Mr. Chester. Yes. Dr. Thompson. Part two. Yes. Uh, interesting enough, uh, you know, with the speed of things that are happening at the federal level, uh, under the adisement of legal counsel, we've been asked to, uh, wave a first reading and do both first and second reading on an addendum to a policy part two. And so, uh, the policy, uh, to board bylaw 0131, um, the board has asked to amend policy 2111 to make clear it will be implemented in compliance with current guidance as recommended by the local superintendent. Again, uh, we received, uh, we signed a certification that we were going to be
064in compliance with title six. And so, uh, we just want to make sure that our language in policy 211 uh, meets those asurances. Um, and so, uh, this policy includes references to promote activities that bridge economic and cultural barriers and relate to various culture, languages, practices, and customs. It also refers to the need to evaluate barriers to participation for parents who, among other things, are of any racial or ethnic minority background. This focus would likely be deemed impermissible. Okay? And so, I'm going to I'm going to recommend that the board add the following statement to this policy. The district shall ensure that any particular attention paid to parents who are economic disadvantaged or disabled, have limited English proficiency, have limited literacy, or are of any racial or ethnic minority background does not result in any
065disfavoring of other families who are not part of these groups. This line is meant only to ensure that engagement is appropriate for all families. For example, a person with limited English proficiency might require a translator. Okay. I, the board president, move to deem compliance with US Department of Education requirements certification be deemed an emergency pursuant to bylaw 0131 permitting the amendment of policies on first reading in cases of emergency. Is there second? Second. Is there any discussion? Roll call, please. Mrs. Ty, yes. Mrs. Foley, yes. Mr. Light, yes. Mrs. Tres, yes. I further move to adopt the recommendations of the superintendent regarding the amendment of policy 2111. Is there a second? Roll call, please. Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Foley, yes. Mr. Light, yes. Mrs. Yes. Mrs. Capo, your addendum report now. A approval of financial reports.
066The board is asked to approve the financial reports for March 2025 as recommended by the chief financial officer. And B, approval of property purchase. The board has asked to authorize the chief financial officer and board president to execute the purchase of the home located at 4575 White Angel Drive, Perry, Ohio, for an amount not to exceed 269,000 plus required closing costs as recommended by the chief financial officer and it's concluded by CFO. Is there a motion? Move. I do. Any discussion? Roll call, please. Mrs. Foley. Absolutely. Mr. Delight. Yes, Mr. Treser. Yes, Mrs. Oh, yeah. There's a house to work on. Unfinish business. Thank you. Um the um champion farm transfers are almost complete. Um most of the paperwork has been filed. um we did present them with the closing costs that um were discussed
067and they've countered um the village has countered with 6500 and Jed has countered with 2,000. Um so I just need to know what to tell our legal counsel tomorrow about those offers. I guess my my question is why are we negotiating something that's in a contract that says the tenant shall pay all costs and made whole and and that the district would be made whole. Why are we negotiating that as a price? You don't you don't have to. I'm this is just what they came back with letting you know. So this you just need direction from us on where to proceed next. Um, does anyone have any thoughts on where you want to proceed next? Sounds like everyone wants to continue pursuing the full amount as was stated in the contract. Yes. Yes. And this
068isn't we're not trying to hold anything up. We're just trying to be responsible with our district funds for the kids and make sure that we are getting made whole as it's indicated in the contract. Okay. I'll let Mr. Sig know. Thank you. Any new business or is anything anything else in old business? New business. I almost missed that. Sorry. Correspondence and announcements. The district will be closed Friday, April 18th, 2025 for Good Friday. There will be no classes on Monday, April 21st, 2025 for the Monday after Easter. The next regular board of education meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, May 20th, 2025 at 5:45 p.m. in the Tart Center conference room. Is there any public participation? Is there a motion to adjurnn? Mrs. Mrs. Mrs. Foley, yes. Mr. Yeah.