001All [Music] right, everyone. >> I call to order the August 25th, 2025 business meeting of the Revana School District Board of Education. May I have a roll call? >> Mrs. Dennison? >> Yes. Mrs. Seaman >> here. >> Mrs. Calhoun >> here. >> Miss Dukes >> here. >> Mr. Wiznooki >> here. >> Please stand for the pledge of >> 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. >> Let us observe a moment of silence. Are there any additions or corrections to the agenda? >> No. >> May I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison? >> Yes. >> Miss
002Dukes? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wizooki? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Recognition of public. Any person or group wishing to address the board on agenda items is requested to register their intent with the superintendent secretary prior to the beginning of the board meeting. Persons are asked to give their name, address, and telephone number, their group affiliation if and when appropriate, and the topic to be addressed. Such requests shall be subject to the approval of the superintendent and the board president. Per board policy 0169.1, no participant may speak more than once on the same topic unless all others who wish to speak on that topic have been heard. All statements shall be directed to the presiding officer. No person may address or question board members individually. Each statement made by a participant
003shall be limited to three minutes duration. Please note that since this is a designated this is designated in the board policy as a time for the public to provide comment, the board of education and the superintendent will not respond to any comment during the meeting. We will however provide a written response to each member of the public who is recognized either by email or the US Postal Service. We do have someone who wishes to speak. We have Elizabeth Justice and the topic is West Park and you have three minutes. Good evening. Um I'm Dr. Elizabeth Justice, 211 Brady Street, Kent, Ohio 3305548872. and um I'm executive director of a local grassroots organization, Lovelight Incorporated, which has been serving the the community for almost 30 years. Um there's information in your packet, so I won't go
004into all that. Uh I do want to let you know that uh I've been studying various approaches to learning and promoting the healthy development of children and teens for over 50 years. Um we know that over 80% of brain growth takes place after a baby is born and 90% of that development occurs by the age of five. Uh you have the opportunity to provide a strong foundation for these children's well-being and success well into the future. Lovelight would be pleased to support the district financially, but what we have to offer is much more valuable than money. We're proposing to create with your support Starchild Revena, a model intergenerational child care, child development, and lifelong learning center for infants through age 15. So, I'd like you to imagine a gold-rated facility, well-qualified staff, uh, university students,
005future teachers, and senior citizens interacting with the children and each other, seniors rocking babies, talking and singing to them, gardening with the children, and reading stories, providing that special nurturing that grandparents provide. um an innovative developmentally appropriate curriculum including art, music, movement, science, exploration, creative play, uh nutritious food and interaction with nature and I promise that these children when they leave the our program they will be ready to learn when they enter school. There are some additional benefits as well. Uh Starchild Revena will enable parents to get training and jobs knowing that their children are well cared for. There will also be employment opportunities and of course tax revenue for the city. Uh we will also support local businesses through purchases of supplies and services, bring outside funds to Portage County, maintain the character of
006the West Park neighborhood, and continue the legacy of the school and the Revena educators who have come before us. Educators like Norm Stikes, Mary Mask, and Gloria Robinson Wright, and many, many others. Uh we also anticipate that Starchild Revena may encourage new business and residents to locate in this area and by generating goodwill within the community increase the probability that school levies will continue to be passed in the future. Uh >> Mrs. Justice, we're over the three minute time. >> Okay. All right. Thank you. In your packet, you have some letters of support. I would ask you to read those. >> Thank you for your time. Mhm. Thank you. May we have the superintendent's update? >> Thank you. Uh tonight we're going to be introducing our new staff as part of my update. Uh I
007ask all the members that are here. Uh I'm going to read your bios that we created or you created. If you could just stand while I read those and then sit back down at the end. We're going to take a brief recess after this. Then we've got some cookies and punch out in the cafeteria. Okay. All right, our first one is Regina Schulcowski. She's an intervention specialist at Revena High School. Regina is originally from Cincinnati, graduated from OU with a psychology major, and she's currently completing her mers in education from Miami. Um, it's her first year teaching special ed as an intervention specialist at Revena High School. Past three years, she's been at Hudson High School working in special education as a pair professional. So, thank you for joining us. The next uh member is
008Sarah Miller. She's an intervention specialist at Brown Middle School. Sarah claims that she's a late bloomer and graduated from Marshall University in May of 2024. Um she taught fourth grade last year at Hilon Elementary, which was built on top of her former middle school. Um and we're really thrilled and excited to have her here uh coming from West Virginia. So, thank you. Our next uh teacher is Rebecca Deem. She's a second grade intervention specialist at Willard. Rebecca graduated from Grand Canyon University. She grew up on the Key Peninsula in Washington State and um her first teaching experience was in Japan teaching English to an afterchool program. Um it's a whole new ball game out at Williard with the kindergarten entering. She's really excited as her first year as an intervention specialist. So, thank you. Lyanna
009Miring is a fifth grade math teacher at Brown Middle School. She graduated from the University of Akran just recently. Uh she grew up in Avon, so not too far from here. And uh this is her first year as a teacher. We're excited to have her as a fifth grade math teacher. And I'm sure Mrs. Fashing, who she's replacing, will be a good mentor to her along the way. Lizzie Cole is a fourth grade teacher from West Main Elementary. She graduated from Overland College in the spring of 2022 and her master's degree from Kent State in the fall of 24. She grew up very close to here in Stow, Ohio. Um she likes to be creative and her hobbies include painting and writing and video video editing and theater. So we're really excited to have her
010here and share some of those talents with our fourth graders. Austin Gilbert is an intervention specialist at Brown Middle School. He graduated from Kent State University in the summer of 2022. He grew up in Brimfield, Ohio. Um he loves watching sports and being active, spending time with his family and friends. Um we're thrilled, as you will see, we've got a lot of new members at Brown. So, welcome. Our next member is Debbie Remley. She's an intervention specialist at Brown Middle School. Debbie received her bachelor's and master's and educational specialist degrees from Kent State. Um she's a Revena resident. She had two daughters go through Revena High School and all the way through from Tapen on all the way up. I was actually the principal at Tapen when some of them attended. And uh she worked
011at education alternatives for eight years before coming to Revena. So welcome to Brown. Michael Leonard is an intervention specialist at Revena High School. Michael graduated from the University of Akran in 2009 and a master's from Concordia University and curriculum and instruction with an inclusion focus. Um he's taught for 10 years both in junior high and um high school intermediate settings. Um he was a soccer coach for eight years in Springfield and grew up in Akran. So welcome Michael. Our next teacher is Emily Cunningham. She's a science teacher at Ravena High School. She graduated from Youngstown State University in 2016 with a bachelor's in middle childhood education and a master's in 2022 in curriculum and instruction with a focus on STEM. This is year 10 of teaching for her. She grew up in the Youngstown area
012in Poland and she also has a minor in music. She's played the clarinet for a long time. So, welcome to Revena. Uh, we have a guidance counselor at the high school, Harrison Hughes. Did Arison make it or not? Harrison received her bachelor's degree from the University of Toledo, masters from Kent, grew up in Hubard. She's currently just ended her job as the executive director of Main Street Revena, and has filled in for several year or several semesters as a guidance counselor here at Revena. Lauren Calhoun, social studies teacher at Brown and Revena High School. Lauren graduated from Ravena High School and then Wheeling University in May of 23 with a bachelor's degree in education and then a year later from Glennville State with a master's degree in curriculum and instruction. She went to Tapen Brown
013and the high school and uh played five years of collegiate basketball at Wheeling University and we're thrilled to have her here. Lauren actually was a student of mine at Tapen Elementary. Alexis Machock is a kindergarten intervention specialist at Williard. She graduated from Kent State University in 2019 with a degree in early childhood education and has graduate endorsements through Bowling Green State University. It's her fifth year of teaching along with six years of teaching within a child care center. She grew up in Akran and Stow, so nice and close. And just recently got married last summer at Kaoga Valley National Park. So, we're thrilled to have you at West Park or at Williard Habit, sorry. Casey Henderson is teaching sixth grade math and English language arts at Brown Middle School. Casey graduated from Youngstown State University
014in 2022 with a degree in middle childhood education for math and ELA. She grew up in Austin Town, Ohio. She loves to coach swimming on the side and used to play clarinet in college. Um, we're excited to have her here at Brown Middle School. Thank you. Alexis James is not here, but I want to call her uh name. She's teaching seventh grade ELA at Brown Middle School. She's at her child's first orientation night. Um she graduated from Walsh University in 2019, grew up in the Southeast School District, real close. Um last year she uh filled in as a long-term sub, and she's previously taught at Warren and Canton schools. Lefan Rohal, third grade intervention specialist at West Main Elementary. Lefan grew up at Kent State University in 2019 with a bachelor's in human development and
015a master's in K5 elementary education at WGU in 2023. She is a local uh product as well, Southeast. Correct. And uh her grandmother was a cook here years and years ago uh here at Raven School District. Thank you. We also uh have several aids and administrators. I just want to call those uh people out. Caitlyn Anderson as a custodian at the high school. Lydia Batten Court as a bus aid. Patricia Coleman as an educational aid at Brown. Sarah Knap is our new preschool secretary. Jared Powell started today in maintenance. Shannon Tuttle is a new education aid at West Maine. And Dana Vargo at Willard as a food handler. And finally, we have several new administrators to the district, and you've all met them, but I just wanted to recognize them. Uh, Dr. Gina Simsac is
016our new director of student services. Um, our new director of curriculum and assessment is Kendra Fashing, former fifth grade teacher at Brown. Director of business operations, Jeremy McDivet. Uh, Mr. Dockerty has moved from West Main to now the Brown Middle School principal. Uh, Dr. Barb Flowers is our new principal at Willard Elementary. And finally, uh, Mrs. Becky Randolph is our new principal at West Main. So, I'd like to welcome everyone to Ravena. We feel it's a great place to be and we're really excited on our new staff members. So, thank you here for all being here and being recognized. Um, do we want to take the break now? Yeah. Let's give them a round of applause. We're going to take a short recess, go out in the cafeteria. We have cookies and punch. That way
017you can mingle a little bit with board members. We'll come back in and resume our meeting immediately following that. Teachers, you're more than welcome to stay for the entirety of the meeting. And if you're not uh up for that or have something going, you're more than welcome to leave after the recess. Thank you. Everybody here? >> Everybody ready? Come real quick. >> Okay, >> very good. Next on our agenda is the treasures update. >> All righty. So, um, first on August 11th, we had a special board meeting and we did our submission of our reduction, uh, financial plan workbook to ODEW and hopefully that is our last submission. It is under review. Uh, they did indicate it'll be about two to three weeks and then we'll be receiving some communication on the status of our
018fiscal oversight. So in the past 12 13 months we've been doing a monthly monitoring and we don't have one this month as we're not under the fiscal oversight. So I decided to share a couple little bit different graphs. Now they're based upon um our last for um submitted um spring forecast. So uh things will get cleaned up in the next forecast submission. So our next forecast submission is actually earlier than in the past. Normally districts do a fall one in November. ODW um pushed the dates earlier. So our forecast and assumptions will be available on September 22nd. So at that time I will um be able to clean up kind of like how we ended with F FY25 and then give our next um four years of predictions on our financial status. But um there
019is a graph up here. So the first one is comparing how are we looking from uh July 31st 2024 versus July 31st 2025. So what has changed? So our revenues are higher. We're $39,530 higher and our expenditures were lower um $223,6001. So remember this is the data from the close of July 2025 and our cash balance was a little over 2 million. So that's wonderful. The second graph looks at our revenue and expenditure trends compared to our filed forecast that we did in spring of 2025. So wow that looks good. Our revenue is trending favorable 1.5 million. our expenditures are um trend is 1 point47785 favorable compared to the forecast. So that means our expenditures decreased by that amount. We want our expenditures to decrease and our revenue to increase. And then our net potential
020trend is looking at wow we look like we're going to end up with about 1.7 million favorable than what we ex what we um predicted in our spring forecast. So now the next chart number three takes our cash balance comparison and this is kind of like what everybody looks at is that last line on the forecast. So this is looking at how did we end FY24 now FY2 or um FY25 which ended June 30th to FY24 which ended June 30th the previous year and we're looking wow we're looking pretty favorable. Um we're expected to be about 2.4 4 million and right now um we're expected that we close at about 3.5 million positive cash. So um these numbers are going to change when we do the September forecast. Um but this is just a good
021indication of you know some little bit of statistics on how the district is doing in terms of financials. Does the board have any questions or >> that is it for my report. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next are the reports of the board. U Maplewood report. Mrs. Seaman. Um >> Mike's going to do that today. >> I'm sorry. Mr. >> Was going. >> I'm going to go and give the Maplewood report this week. Okay. >> Um it is the 50th anniversary for Maplewood. So we are discussing some um ideas on how we want to celebrate that this year. Uh school year is starting out great and um it's going to be short and sweet today. That's about it. >> Okay. And I do not have a report for the parks and recreation. Next
022are the reports of the treasurer. >> All righty. So, the first one is 11 A 1 through Make sure I get them all. 1 through six. These are our consent agenda agenda. So, A1 is the approval of the July 21st business meeting. 11 A2 is the approval of the August 11th special meeting. 11 A3 is our acceptance of gifts and donations. 11 A4 is the approval of transfers. 11 A5 is the approval of then and now payments. 11 A6 are our July financial reports. And that is it. >> Okay. So, may I have a motion to approve item 11 A numbers 1 through six. >> So, move. >> Second. >> Roll call. Mrs. Miss Calhoun. Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison. >> Yes. >> Miss Dukes. Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wiznooki. >> Yes.
023>> Motion carried. Next are the recommendations of the superintendent and other administrators. >> Thank you. Uh number 12A1 is a standalone. It's to approve the authorization. Mr. Nukem is requesting the board authorize the use of accurate IT services to sell and recycle uh surplus technology items that we're no longer using. We have a motion to approve item 12A number one. >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison? Yes. Miss Dukes? Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman? Yes. >> Mr. Wizooki? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Items two, three, four, and five are consent. Number two is to appoint a delegate and an alternate delegate for the OSBA capital conference. Number three is to approve a revision replacement of board policy bylaws on student records as included in your packet.
024Number four is to authorize the superintendent um to appoint Kendra Fashing, director of curriculum and assessment as the alternate expulsion hearing officer for the district as needed and appoint Kendra Fashing, director of curriculum and assessment and Gina Simsac, director of student services as suspension appeal officers for this school year. One more. >> Oh, I'm sorry. And finally, number five is to approve resolution for non-bachelor substitutes. Um, Ohio Department of Education Workforce requires us to do this each year. And as you remember, we've put some stipulations on there that we want our non-deree substitutes to at least be attending coursework for education. >> So, before we vote, we need the delegate. >> Yeah. We'll need to appoint a delegate first and then we can make a motion. >> Joanna, are you >> I I'll do it
025if Mike is the alternate. >> She said Mrs. Seaman said she would do it with Mike as the alternate. They're going to be there. >> Okay. Mike and Joan. >> So, may I have a motion to approve items 12 A 2 through 5? So, move. >> Second. >> Roll call. Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennis, >> yes. >> Miss Dukes, >> yes. >> Mrs. Seaman, yes. >> Mr. Wookski, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Number six, seven are consent. Number six is to approve the recommended bus routes and stops for the 2526 school year. And number seven is to approve food service alle cart prices as listed as well as approve primary bread, dairy, ice cream, and pizza distributors as listed. >> May I have a motion to approve item 12A numbers six and
026seven? >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison. Yes. >> Miss Dukes. Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mr. Rosski. Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Number eight is a standalone to approve a purchase service agreement with the um ESC of Northeast Ohio to employ Will Cal William Calhoun as our ISR monitor for another year at Brown Middle School. >> May I have a motion to approve item 12A number eight? So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun >> abstain. >> Mrs. Dennis? >> Yes. >> Miss Dukes? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman? >> Yes. >> Mr. Razooki. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> On to uh number 13, personnel considerations. Letter A1 is a standalone to approve stipens for Brian Duncan to uh manage
027our ES school grade K through 12 electronic grade book duties outside of the workday. Um he previously was doing the high school and then the middle school and now he's also picking up the elementarymentaries for the same rate. >> May I have a motion to approve item 13A1? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison? >> Yes. >> Miss Dukes? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wizooki? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Letter B certificated items 1 2 3 4 are consent agenda. Number one is to accept a resignation of an intervention specialist. Adam Cassidy at Willard Elementary. Number two is to approve employment of one-year limited contracts to Austin Gilbert, Lyanna Miring, Debbie Remley, Rebecca Dee, and Sarah Miller. Number three is to approve
028movement on the pay scale for two certificated teachers who have completed coursework per the REA agreement. And number four is to approve a long list of substitute employees as teachers. >> We have a motion to approve item 13B 1 through 4. >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dukes. Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman. >> Yes. >> Wizooki. Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Uh C supplementals. This is also a consent agenda for number one, two, three, four. Number one is to approve amendment to employment resolution on volleyball. Mandanda melodic is moving from an assistant coach to a volunteer. Number two is to improve employment of coaches per the negotiated agreement. Number three is to approve extracurricular and co-curricular advisors also per the negotiated agreement.
029>> May I have a motion to approve item 13 C 1 through 3? >> So move second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison. >> Yes. >> Miss Dukes. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wooi. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Number four is a standalone to approve extracurricular and co-curricular advisors for uh the three band supplementals. >> May I have a motion to approve item 13 C number four? >> So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison. >> Abstain. >> Miss Dukes. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bizooki. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Letter D. volunteers as a standalone to improve the employment of four volunteer coaches for the 2526 school year as listed. >> May I
030have a motion to approve item 13D number one? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennis? >> Yes. >> Miss Dukes? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wiznooki? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Finally, letter E, classified. This is a consent agenda for numbers one through five. Number one is to improve the employment of a bus driver. Number two is to accept the resignation educational aid at West Main. Number three is to accept the resignation of an educational aid at Brown. Number four is to accept the resignation retirement of a custodian effective December 31st, 2025. And number five is to approve the employment of our parent menor which is paid through a grant that we receive from uh the federal government. May >> I have
031a motion to approve item 13E numbers 1 through five. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. D. Mrs. Dennison. >> Yes. >> Miss Dukes. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Smith. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. We do not have anyone signed up for recognition of public on non-aggenda items. >> Okay. Very good. Informational items. Labor Day no school on Monday, September the 1st, 2025. Our next board of education meeting is on Monday, September the 22nd at 5:30 p.m. at the high school. The Ravena Balloon Affairs, Saturday, September 25th through the 28th, 2025 at the Randolph Fairgrounds. The board does have need for an executive session. An executive session or a private session of the board is controlled by the sunshine law. It may only
032be used for special purposes outlined in the law. No action can be taken by the board during the executive session. In accordance with Ohio Revised Code 121.22, the Revana Board of Education will go into executive session for the sole purpose of the consideration of any of the following matters. We will be doing item B to consider the purchase of property for public purposes or for the sale of property at competit competitive bidding. If premature disclosure of the information would give an unfair, competitive or bargaining advantage to a person whose personal private interest is adverse to the public interest. So may I have a motion to enter into executive session? So move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison. Yes. >> Miss Dukes. Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman. >> Yes. >> Mr.
033Ruski. >> Yes. >> And we may reconvene after executive session to either t the item or to take formal action. [Music] Did >> they leave? >> Anybody else out there? whenever you guys are ready. Okay, >> you're on. Okay, the board has returned to the open meeting in order to consider item 17A number one. This is the approval of the resolution authorizing the sale of West Park School to Magnolia Realy Holdings for $775,000. >> May I have a motion to accept I'm sorry. May I have a motion for that item? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison? >> Yes. >> Miss Dukes? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman? >> Yes. >> Mr. Wiznooki? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. May I have a motion to adjourn this meeting?
034So >> move. >> Second. >> Roll call. >> Mrs. Calhoun. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Dennison. Yes. >> Miss Dukes. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Seaman. >> Yes. >> Mr. Wizooki. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. Meeting is adjourned. Thank you.