001Everybody, we are back from executive session and we will now continue with the regular order of the agenda which is awards and recognitions, >> Miss Kirby. >> All right. Good evening and welcome. Tonight, I'd like to recognize Dr. Shu Hugh Lynn Heights High School's Mandarin Chinese Language and Business Teacher for receiving the 2025 Ohio Master Teacher of the Year Award from the Martha Holding Jennings Foundation. The award is presented to one exceptional classroom teacher who was nominated by their superintendent and has three years of experience as an Ohio teacher. It also includes a $7,500 award to be used for a project to benefit students in the recognized teachers classroom, school, andor district. And I just want to say Dr. Lynn personally has great enthusiasm, passion, and commitment to her students, to her colleagues, to the
002community. She is innovative. She is energetic and really seeks to change the lives of her students. I do not know where you get the energy from, Dr. Lynn, and do the work that you do, but we are very lucky to have you as an educator in our district and at the high school. So, please come up to receive your certificate and to uh take a a photo with Congratulations. >> Thank you, Dr. L. >> Thank you. [Applause] And as school uh just resumed uh we do have a shorter awards and recognitions tonight. We will resume the Tiger team members of the month during our October meeting >> and cadre reports as well. >> Oh, cadre reports as well. Yes. Thank you. First cadre meeting is coming up. >> It's my favorite part of the meeting.
003That's why I come. >> Yes, it is great. Um so that concludes our awards and recognition. >> Thank you. Um next we have statements from the audience. Um Chanty Hutton, will you please come to the podium? Introduce yourself. Uh hello and good evening. My name is Chanty Hutton. Um I am currently running for mayor of University Heights, but more importantly, I am the proud parent of a Heights High graduate from 2025. Uh, unfortunately they just came back from school with a little bit of the freshman funk. >> I managed to pick some of that up, hence the mask and hence why I'll be leaving a little bit early so I don't infect any of these nice people. >> Thank you. >> I just want to take a moment uh to thank all of you for
004all of your hard work, for your dedication that you've put into serving the needs of our uh our children, our our most vulnerable members of our society. Uh I myself am a public school graduate. My wife as well is a public school graduate. Uh we have both lived through the burdens of having programs cut out from underneath us as children and we appreciate the hard work that goes into keeping those programs alive and well. Um I will tell you now that if I am elected mayor, you will have my full support uh from that seat. But I'm also going to tell you that even if I am not elected mayor, you will continue to have my full support. I appreciate your work greatly and I won't take up too much more of your time uh
005because I do need to go home and get some sleep. Thank you all very much. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you, Mr. Hutton. >> Uh Kathy Howard Primes, would you come and introduce yourself, please? >> Well, good evening again. My name is Kathy Howard Primes and I am a candidate for the Cleveland Heights University High School Board. And I just also wanted to say just thank you for all that you do for our students, our community, as well as our parents. I think you're doing a great job and off to a great start this school year. And thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you for running. >> And Tom Hudkas Lily, if you would come up, please. >> I am Tom Hodkis Liy. Uh, I am also a school board candidate and I
006have four kids in the district and I am an alumnist myself. Um, I want to thank especially uh Jody and Malia who are rotating off. Um, thank you for all of your time. I know it's a lot. Uh, thanks guys. >> Thank you. And now I will entertain a motion to consider the consent agenda. >> I motion we consider the consent agenda. >> I second. >> Okay. We got to talk about a culinary arts field trip to Italy. >> I know that's fair. >> Now, how do we get to Horn in on this trip? >> Somebody needs, right? >> They need more chaperons. they can't possibly have enough chevron. >> It just seems like the uh cultural immersion experiences that our students are able to have um get better and better and better each year.
007Um so I was also excited um that that's an experience that our culinary arts students um will be able to have. Um I think or I could be wrong um students in CTE programming normally don't have the opportunity to participate um in such fantastic experiences. So I'm glad to see we are able to uh offer that. I was pretty excited about that. I was also excited that when I looked on the um new appointments, we have a a high school or a former alum of our high school who's going to be hired. And I love it when we >> Great hire our own students. I think that's great. >> Yeah. I um I was thrilled to see also that the Italy trip is over spring break, so it won't interfere with the kids um class
008days. And I was thinking, what a resume piece. >> How many kids at age of 18 when they're leaving high school have taken cooking lessons in Italy? That's that's fantastic. >> Miss Kirby, do you know whether the spring breaks line up for >> the districts in the consortium >> with the exception of Maple? >> Okay. >> So, three of the four line up. >> Okay. because I know that's >> yeah, >> we're constantly trying to make things easier and line up. So, >> this is an expensive trip. And it also struck me that it would be great if we had a scholarship granting organization up and running in this district. >> Yeah. The number of spots for that trip, I think it was 25. >> 25. >> Yeah. I'm assuming that's spread. That's not Heights
009students specifically who are participating in CTE. That's the entire program, >> right? It's the program across four districts. >> Yeah. Yeah. I just want to call that out because as the form looks in board docs, it might >> It's just us. >> Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. So that's that is spread across >> and I don't know how many kids are from Heights and how many kids are from Garfield or I mean >> it doesn't matter. >> That's submitted to every one of the consortium boards to have to approve. So, >> yeah, I saw some other letters to some other superintendents, but >> just if anyone's just looking at the cover page. >> Yep. >> Um, also some Yeah, some great uh new appointments. Love seeing Jeff Porter's name on stuff, he's awesome, >> right? >> Couple
010of nice donations, which we greatly appreciate. >> Is that OSAA donation typical? Do we get that every year? Is that >> I think that the amount changes. Yeah, but the I remember seeing it last year. They I think that they like to I don't know if they go to zero at the end of every year or or or not, but >> um we do routinely get and we also get a check from OSAA very often for postseason play at our facilities because we've got great facilities. Even this year, in the last year of the life expectancy of the turf at Heights High before we do a big um a big relaying of of turf, it's still a great field. My Chardan students who played there, darn them, um on Friday. >> Oops. >> Uh they
011just got So in Chardan there's a brand new field and they thought that ours was newer than 10 years. So, >> so it's been well maintained. >> It absolutely has. >> I will say I do appreciate in the OSA's donor letter uh that they say that they hope their donation among other things can assist uh with they list things off, but the last thing is adult fan behavior as well. So, always a good reminder >> uh that you know we're cheering on kids. >> Honestly, you know, I go to a lot, we all do go to a lot of I I I love football games. I love men's and women's basketball games. I've been known to hang out at baseball games >> Just a bit. And I have I don't think I've ever seen that
012I can think of >> fan misbehavior by Tiger Nation. >> Yeah, >> agreed. I spent a lot of time at hockey games and it wasn't >> the Heights families causing trouble. >> Yeah. >> So, okay. Any other comments? Are we done? >> Miss Leam. >> Mr. H. >> Yes. >> Miss Lewis. >> Yes. >> Missy? >> Yes. >> Mr. Trenle? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Kshaw? >> Yes. >> And I'll turn it over to the superintendent. >> All right. Thank you very much. So, as we do every month, I do align the superintendent's update to the five goals of our strategic plan. Um, and so I'll talk first just about the work that we're doing to advance student outcomes. Um, as the school year starts, we do do quite a bit of professional development with our
013new staff um in the roles in the district. So we have everything from the opening staff breakfast to dayong professional development led by members of um the entire um cabinet team to help teachers and um other non-certified staff have a strong start to the school year. So we had training around our social emotional learning curriculum, around Zern for example, around our science pilot, around clarity, um, and around equity. And there are other initiatives as well, um, data, making sure people know how to use our systems, um, so just lots of professional learning that that happened to get us off to a strong start. So I want to thank the team. I see uh, Bob Swagger. Actually, everybody did some training here. Bob Swagard, um Mike Jenkins, Karen Liddell Anderson, Sam Gford, Sean Patton, Nancy Pepler,
014Lisa Hunt, Kase, even Kase I think did some training around communication. So, everyone has a piece. Well, you did the convocation. You do the ultimate training, the convocation. Um but we all were um engaged in just making sure that we had a strong start for our new staff members. So, thank you all for that. um around college and career readiness. I did just want to update the board and uh the community around the different kinds of support that we have. These are all grantf funded positions um to support our students as they pursue their post-secary efforts. So, Gear Up, for example, serves cohorts 2027 and 2028 um in the high school. The ESC also has a gear up program that serves cohorts 2030 and 2031. And again, I want to reiterate, Bob Swagger was instrumental
015in expanding this gear up opportunity not only to our district, but also to schools in the ESC. Educational Talent Search provides support for the classes of 2026, 2029, and 2032. That is provided by uh College Now grant funds. And then we also have programming supports coming out of Bob's office to support um curriculum, career curriculum in particular um so that students are able to navigate school with an understanding of their future and the pathways that they're on. So this is really important programming for us. The beauty of it is it is grant funded. We always pursue grant funds to support as much as possible because we want to um you know really be um as efficient as possible with our funds and then there are grants out there um that we always pursue. >> Can
016I ask a question Liz? >> Sure. >> I knew that uh we had the transition from like CHU gear up to the ESC version of it. I guess I didn't realize uh that it looks like we have like a year of gap, the 2029 year. Do we have plans for that or a Bob question? >> 2029. Bob, you could take the podium feel free, but I believe it's covered by educational talent search. That's how we we make sure that we address all the grade levels, but you can go ahead and speak to >> this. What happens when you sit by the by the podium, Bob? >> Good evening. Uh glad to address that question. So, a lot of it is where the money is coming from serves different things. So, the Cleveland Heights University Heights
017City School District has um earned a gear up grant. The ESC as Superintendent Kirby has earned a gear up grant to serve our students. And then College Now will also write grants and receive grants that then they're looking for school districts to partner with. So, when you see something called Educational Talent Search, that really is part of the TRIO programs. And so, College Now has earned that grant to service our students. It might not be students in the entire cohort like our Gear Up program, but they are constantly trying to get students and families to sign up and to participate in those programmings. Um, and so that's specifically for the 2029 cohort. >> Cool. So when you piece it all together, then we have programming for every grade level 6 through 12. >> Awesome. >>
018Right. >> Yeah. Cool. >> Yeah. Thanks, B. >> Of course. Thank you. So then moving on to other student outcomes, we had the curriculum nights that we have every year at our elementary schools, middle schools, and high school last week. Um we also have uh started some early work in our MTSS meetings really focused on supporting students who we have already identified as uh needing extra academic and support. So even before the school year gets fully started, uh there were teams meeting with the high school team, high school counselors, high school social workers to identify the needs of students and ensure there's a plan for those students. They're really trying to be increasingly proactive in how we support students. And I I was able to observe one. I was very impressed with um how it
019was organized, the level of detail, and all the different supports that were being identified to help kids. everything from connecting them to a particular extracurricular activity to a check-in checkout with a particular adult. So those kinds of pieces were happening. And then under families and community goal three, we know was a very busy August. We had the back to school resource fair on August 16th where under Nancy Pepler and Lisa Hunts leadership. We had 33 community partners, 600 attendees and 30 plus volunteers, 450 backpacks distribute distributed and support from all the different departments in the district. So we had uh Chromebooks that were being distributed, bus tours, we had registration happening, sharing of attendance information and then helping parents get connected with our annual update which is um important for infinite campus access. That event
020was actually just after busy week the kindergarten kickoff where we had approximately 400 attendees of incoming mostly kindergarteners. There were some prek kids there. So, school principles and teachers were there to talk about to give a bit of an overview about kindergarten. So, kindergarters were were already starting to meet each other. I saw some kids, you know, reuniting after preschool and some hugs and excitement of seeing each other. Um, but again, we had registration support. Information was shared about college and career readiness for our youngest learners. PTAs were there. Dolly Parton Imagination Library was there and Reaching Heights as well. So, we had dinner, raffle prizes, and a picture with the ever popular TJ the Tiger. >> Wish you could have seen that. >> Yeah, you missed that, didn't you? >> I attended both of
021those events and they were fantastic. And I just want to personally thank Nancy and Lisa for the work that they put into those because to see that kind of level of family engagement, >> Yeah. I've been going to kindergarten kickoffs for a long time in this district and that was the best attended one I've ever seen and the resource fair every year. I can't think how it can get better and yet it does. So, thank you. >> Yeah, I I'm going to chime in too because I had so much fun at both of those events. the kinder kindergarten kickoff, you know, is was such a success this year because a it was far more efficient to do it to do all of the schools in one location. Um, I mean to me it mattered a
022lot just in terms of releasing some of the burden from from the people who work here because they were able to um spend one night deeply immersed in this important work instead of so many nights and I you know we all think a lot about just bandwidth when it comes to >> our our staff because people are taxed. Um, but I mean I left that and I think I was a foot off the ground. >> I, you know, I might have been that night I sent Liz an email. I'm like, "This was fantastic. Here's some ideas for next year to make it fantastic." >> Um, and and then the um the the back to school event at Dial was I mean the weather was great. Tons of people. I mean, so many different resources available
023to folks. It was pure Cleveland Heights, University Heights, building a stage and showing ourselves off to our self. It was fantastic. >> Just a great great day. >> Yeah, that the the uh back to school resource fair is hands down my favorite event in the district. Uh, so bravo to you ladies in the back, but then also I mean everyone else though that that helped put it together, including Mark and the IT team who were, you know, fixing Chromebooks on the fly and all the community partners that came out. I mean, it really is a cool event and somehow Diles like seems like the perfect place because you've got like multiple roads coming in. There's people coming from all I mean it was like people converging on that building. Uh, and so just a really
024cool event and uh, yeah, I I hope to never miss one of those. I'd planned I'd planned, you know, the best vacation in the world around being at that. That's that's so much fun. >> And a special thank you to our partner Anthem. >> Yep. >> For >> the amount of support that they provide us to that event is incredible. >> Right. >> Wonderful. >> The next fun event, we'll go to I think this is the last slide, but I do want to talk about convocation. That's I spoke about the new hire meeting. So convocation this year we did in partnership with the high schools foundation. It was um connected to the 100red-year anniversary of Heights High School at the Cedarly location and uh the theme was decades and so people across the district dressed
025in they picked a decade to dress in um and also showed their Tiger Nation pride as well. Um Ahmad Crump from the Cavs of Heights alum was our MC. He did an excellent job. We had a student DJ, a fifth grader um from Fairfax who uh well now he's going to be at Rocks Mid, but um he is he was our resident DJ. We had cheerleaders. We had um the Heist quartet uh sing four excellent songs. We had a tribute to Tamara Gray who is retiring and she gave uh some words of wisdom um to new staff coming into the district. >> Um we had um and at the end you know I did a speech with you but at the end we did uh competition >> Shark Tank. >> Was it Shark Tank? >>
026Oh no. Who was the best dress for the decades? >> And I will have to say it was there was some it was some some competition. Don't you think, Kay? Yeah. So, options came in with the '9s. They were like, you know, Dr. Williams had on Adidas tracksuit. Like, they were really, you know, but um the winner was Noble Elementary. No favorite. And I will have to say that um I mean lots of spirit and energy. There were like fake radio, blowup radios. Um the principal had a special, you know, tracksuit that he wore to represent the 80s and then he changed back to his professional gear right after they won, you know. Um but they were hands down. They won. So they will get a special prize from superintendent office. Um >> who was
027wearing the hammer pants? >> You know, there were quite a few hammer pants actually. There were there's lots of colors. You know, Roxid represented well as well. Um there were a lot of wigs. Kathan and I were the 70s girls. So um but yeah, it was a fun time. So I really I'm glad we're able to connect with the high schools foundation and kind of use that as a as a launch pad for the hundth. And then as the homecoming parade is coming, it's going to be a decade's theme as well. So that's going to be and people are already planning the I just they're already planning >> which means we have to worry about transportation, right? because they're going to there's a lot of coordination going on already on the homecoming parade. So, um
028but I want to thank uh Keith Newman. Thank you for letting us invade your space with all of our crazy and wild ideas and different things and Kathan for partnership, Roz and uh Shayla for just helping supporting getting things in. Nikki from Kath's team as So there's like a big team of folks who, you know, do it, but we really want to just like start the year, you know, with fun and positivity, but also kind of talking through a lot of the things we have to be proud of as a district. So if you did not get a chance to see it, it should be posted on our YouTube channel. Please check it out. Um, so you can see how how fun it was. Um, because I know a lot of lots of folks were
029um, you know, out of town or unable to attend, but it was a great great event. So, as we go into the month of September, um we do have, as I mentioned, Heights Homecoming coming up. Uh Monday, September 15th marks the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month. National IT Professionals Day is on the 16th. We have a board work session on the 16th as well, which will be on our academic goals, goals one and two. Um the father's walk or the grown-ups walk different things at different schools is going to be on the 18th of September. So different schools are kind of doing different iterations of that. Um we have national gear up week happening the 22nd through the 26th. Schools closed on the 23rd for Rashashana and then a special board meeting um on the
03023rd as well. So that concludes my report for um September 2nd representing our work that happened in August. >> Thank you Miss Leam. You're up. Okay. Um, good evening. >> Good evening. >> I am going to talk today. Can you hear me? >> Well, it's just for the recording. >> Okay. Um, I'm going to talk today about um the actions of the Ohio House on the 25th of August. um particularly the three bills that um they um proposed um in the house um and they're calling it the taxpayers freedom trilogy. So the first um act as they call it act one um is discontinuing the continuum. It's house bill 420. Its aim is to eliminate continuing levies. Um they propose to do that by um disallowing um Oh, sorry. Hold on. I did something weird.
031I think you're still up. >> Okay. Just do slideshow. Maybe that better. >> If you do slid stream up >> or not, you can roll with it. >> Okay. Can everybody still see it? >> Yes. >> Okay. So um the the way they propose to do that is um by disallowing any new continuing levies and by 2030 eliminating property taxes that are levied for a continuing period of time. So making all levies term limited. Um it includes provisions for school districts to levy taxes for permanent improvements and to consider um school district income tax in addition to or in combination with the property tax. Um the impact of this if this were to pass would be much shorter levy cycles. um decreased revenue predictability as school districts would have to depend on, you know, a
032regular levy cycle and being able to pass those levies um successfully the first time um in order to do any um real projections of what that revenue would look like for districts in the future. That can impact um negotiations. So any negotiating long-term contracts and that sort of thing if you have revenue um unpredictability that's much more difficult to do. Um it would be a catastrophic loss in funding if if new levies were not passed. um most of the levies that we have on the ballot um or have had on the ballot or have passed have been continuing levies and so to get rid of those by 2030 would cause a significant um decrease in our funding. All of those levies are subject to House Bill 920. So they kind of erode over time um
033and then it would result in higher taxes for residents. That's because when you pass a new um levy, it's at the current valuation. So, most of us have experience our valuations continuing to grow go up. Um and so that's going to actually do the opposite of what they're proposing and cause um the taxes to be waged against the higher valuation instead of eroding with House Bill 920. Okay, now I think I am in a pickle because I can't advance it. >> Try it again. I'm back to back one still. you you can >> talk about it. >> Okay. >> I don't know if we'll get we can get the um >> the presentation posted. >> I believe it's already it's already in. Yes, it is in boards. >> Yes. So, you can just >> Thank
034you. You're very welcome. House Bill 421 or act two um is called arresting inside millillage. Its aim is to allow for a new process where voters can initiate a ballot measure to reduce property taxes collected without a specific vote. Um so inside millillage is limited to 10 mills and it's split between school districts and other um public service entities. So, um the city of um Cleveland Heights, city of University Heights, um the county gets a portion. So, it's not just limiting um resources to school districts. Um if this were um the the proposal is um the the voters would file a petition um with the board of elections. um they would propose a reduction amount and make an argument about why they think that that is sufficient. Um the petition must be signed by 15%
035of the total votes cast in the last general election for the office of governor in that subdivision. And the impact of that would be um loss for again not only the district but um cities, libraries, etc. um >> fire departments. >> Yes. And so for the district, we have 4.45 inside me mills um of the 10 that we share with um our other service providers. And that would be a a reduction in about $7.6 million for us. And then the last of the trilogy is act three um house bill 422 and they are calling it the triumph of the taxpayer. >> Oh my god. Its aim is to increase the voter approval threshold for the passage of property tax levies. Their proposal to do so um requires different percentages of approvals um by by aggregate
036rate. Um and I have a chart um on the slide but if a levy is not more than one meal um then it requires 50% which is what is um required now the majority but if it is more than one meal but but not more than two meals it requires 60%. And if it is more than two meals, which most levies are more than two meals, it would require 66% to so a super majority essentially is what they have attempted to create with this. Um the impact of this would be um the funds are explicitly um restricted and cannot be used for daily operating um expenses like salaries. Um and these things would make it more difficult for districts to pass levies going forward. Um, and so if you think there's too many levies now
037or you need property tax relief, this is the opposite of anything that they're claiming to do with that um here. And so I urge you all to um pay attention to what's going on. Pay attention to what um they're naming things. It sounds flashy. It sounds good. Um but not necessarily in effect. What is going on? >> The state house comes back to work when >> um that's a good question. Yeah, but I believe it's October. >> So we have >> I think they're back. >> Yeah, >> they are back today. >> Did they get called back in advance? because the regular session starts in October and there was some talk about >> whether they would get called back. >> Um >> I think it's very important that everybody communicate about these three bills. Um
038the names are >> representative, right? >> Yes, for sure. Um Representative Click is on all three bills. Um they are co-sponsored with by different people but >> but Rep click is on has sponsored all three. Okay. >> So can I ask you to pull to and this is going to be no small feat. I know but you're a wizard. >> Um can I ask you to pull together numbers? What what what is the the financial impact of these things if they go through? You know, one of the things that you mentioned in the act three is that we are explicitly not allowed to use levies for operating expenses, which is people. >> It's 80% of our budget >> and that's 80% of our budget. We are a people business >> just as healthcare, um, just
039as a lot of industries. So, you know, they're trying to legislate us out of existence. It is interesting to me too that um so I would really like to see scenarios the chuh scenario because that's the information that people need in order to write and call >> and sign up to give testimony. Um it it's really and Howard Fleeter will do it because he's incredible and of course a Heights grad. Um which surprises no one. Um, a couple things really struck me that at the at the very same time that that every one of act one, two, and three, every one of those is intended to decapitate public education and reduce the amount of money flowing into the coffers that educate 90% of Ohio's school children. You know who's not touched by this? all those
040people using Ed Choice vouchers, that money is not going down. Um, and yet everything about this is about money going down to public schools. Um, so this is this is sort of a a moment, Tiger Nation. Um, you know, we thought we had some wins at the end of the last session with a couple of vetos, but um the the battle is still being waged. I will remind everyone too that the Constitution of the State of Ohio requires the legislature to create a system that thoroughly and efficiently funds public education. So here they're creating a system that dismantles public education. I have been reaching out through social media to a representative for weeks now who posts, his name is David Thomas, and he um is sort of the the new pretty boy of of the
041far right, the extreme right, and he's talking about eliminating property taxes. That's his thing. And I have been asking him the same question every time he posts, which is simply, how will the legislature make up for the loss in revenue that will be experienced by Ohio's public schools if we lose property taxes? I have posted that question. I am not exaggerating, 25 times over the past few weeks. He has never replied to it. >> Um, >> it's no surprise. >> And he does reply >> to other people. >> Right. >> So, he has a he has a constitutional requirement to fund public education. They're defunding public education and he has nothing to say about it. The Constitution also prohibits public tax money from funding a separate religious education system. >> A separate education system. And
042we've seen how the legislature has been creating a separate education system and funding it with public tax dollars. So, they're doing it, you know, they're they're They're breaking the Constitution from both directions. >> Yeah, >> if break is the right verb. Um, >> violating the Constitution from both directions. >> This absolutely is a problem dressed up as a solution. There is you know the the act two um you know change or no sorry uh act three changing in these acts the names of these you know excuse me is it's dumb the fact I mean this is like you know you know operation enduring freedom or whatever it's like you give it a fancy you know a cutesy name >> let's call let's call what it is axe one >> act two >> act three >>
043yeah and so so three, you know, this is designed so that a levy will never pass in the state again. >> Um, you know, it's this stacks the deck so hard. Uh, I mean, if you think back to, you know, regonomics in the 1980s, supply side economics, you know, it had an ethos. It had, you know, trickle down. It the idea was wrong, but the idea was that you give money to people at the top and it'll filter its way through the economy to people at the bottom. There's no trickle here. This is just drying up the funds that go to public education. Uh and there'll be, you know, if this if these three things were to go through, there would be a shortterm period where every district in the state would be putting levies
044on the ballot just, you know, fighting for their lives, and then, you know, 15 years later, every district in the state is going to be in the red because no one is going to be able to achieve this. It's I mean >> with a 66% supermajority >> I I don't think that there's probably been a levy that has passed in Ohio with a 66% h how many could there have been >> in the past decade? >> Yeah. >> Has there have there been any? >> Yeah. You know, >> I don't think there's been anything on the ballot which has passed at a supermajority because it's not actually desirable in a democracy for things to be that stacked in one direction or the other, right? I mean, >> yeah. >> For act two, um, when you
045mentioned the loss in revenue that is comparing to, um, what time frame? >> Sure. So that is looking at our valuation for 2024 um which is paid in 2025. So that's real time what we would be losing um based on the 4.45 mills of inside that we have >> you know and and I will remind two more things and then I'll shut up. When Governor um Strickland left office, Ohio was ranked fourth in the country for quality of K12 public education, number four in the country. Since then, one party has held control of the governor's mansion and both houses of the legislature. Every single year, we are now ranked in the 30s. So what are we getting for all of this? Nothing. Nothing that we want. It has been an attack on public school teachers.
046It has been attack on public school children. What we know is that children when Governor Strickland left were receiving better education in the state of Ohio than they are today. That's not an accident. That is intentional. That's by design. Um, and then you look at a district like ours. You know, this is all they say they tell us that this is all designed because public school districts are are throwing good money after bad. Yet we are now in the situation where we are in the largest the longest pardon me the longest gap between levy asks in 45 years. The longest gap between levy asks in 45 years. Now, we had some help in there because of COVID money, but when we go to voters again, which we will have to do, I'll be very proud
047to tell that story as I'm knocking on doors and bragging about the work that our kids are doing and the work that our teachers are doing and the work that we have done on this podium trying to make every dollar stretched as far as we possibly can. and the cuts that have been made quietly and there have been cuts that have been made quietly. Um, and so it's it's just it's so frustrating because so many people work so hard for the next generation and then we're constantly fighting battles that we don't need to fight. So, >> and just a reminder, >> the reminder that the reason that that levy was allowed to stretch that long was that it was a permanent levy. Another thing >> being destroyed here and >> a permanent levy with a
048locked mill. So, the mill stays the same that does not grow with inflation. Uh, and so we've, like Dan has said, tightened our belts and made strategic cuts and, you know, been adaptive, uh, and been smart year-over-year with the dollars flowing through this district. Uh, and, you know, this this nightmare of a plan would erode all of that. >> And just to add a bit of joy to this image, um, it's not just public education that will suffer. >> Municipal governments are going to get destroyed. the library systems of Ohio, which are, you know, some of the best in the nation, will be destroyed. The ability to ask voters to subsidize the things that make society work is going to be destroyed. And the things that make society work won't be funded. Um, >> police,
049fire. >> Yeah. Everything. So, >> paving roads. >> Yeah. We don't have any potholes. So, okay. Well, thank you, Angel. That was depressing. >> No, but but also uh Angel, I think this is a wonderful uh explanation and you're distilling some very complex stuff into three easy to digest slides that I think arm us and other people in the community to have these conversations. >> Um, you know, I I hope you're the I hope the hair on your predecessor's neck is standing on end right now. uh as you deliver this because this is great. >> Yeah. I by the way I mentioned Howard Fleeter whose organization is called OEPI. Uh if anybody in the audience is interested Ohio Education Policy Institute did it. >> You got it right. It's amazing. All right. Um now it's
050my turn. I don't actually have a report because I've been significantly absent the past three weeks. Um, but I want to thank Gabe for taking over in my absence and everybody else for doing what we do. Um, I'm sad I missed some really fantastic events. Uh, they are usually, you know, things that get me going for the new school year with incredible Verve. Um but I think it's important to remember that nothing in our system depends on any one individual. >> We are all working together towards the same common goal and so we can um replace each other relatively easily. So that's all I have to say. Is there any um news from committees? Um, so I will just say on behalf of Heights Athletic Boosters, um, the 2025 fall sports calendars are available. So,
051um, pick one up if you haven't already. I will, um, also say that, uh, Tiger Nation tailgates are back. Um, and so for a $10 fee, you can reserve a parking spot. Um, bring your own food. um but have guaranteed parking before the football game. If you're interested in all four home games, which is well all three right now, September 12th, 26th, and October 17th, um those are the remaining Tailgate sessions that are available. Um, they will take place in the parking lot near the baseball softball fields from 4:45 p.m. until 6:45 p.m. when the lot will when the lot will open for other fans. Um, your car will remain parked in the lot throughout the game. Um, except for homecoming tailgate on Friday, September 12th, there will be no food or drink for sale,
052but there will be plenty of Tiger spirit. That's all I have. Thank you. >> Um >> Dan, do you have anything from the foundation? >> Yeah, the Heights Schools Foundation, which is our alumni association, continues to plan the party of the century, um which is um being known as Heights 100. It is the celebration of a 100 years of Heights High at the corner of Cedar and Lee. Um it will be held over the weekend of June 2026, 6 2026. Um there will be multiple events Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Um most of them sort of hung around a pretty big gala event on Saturday night. Um and it is really shaping up to be something remarkable. Um had a chance Liz mentioned the few minutes ago that um we brought back the golden tiger um
053breakfast last weekend. Was it Liz? and it was fantastic. So, Golden Tigers are Tigers who graduated 50 years ago or more. And we had probably, I would say, 30 um folks at Heights High, which was fantastic. They were very enthusiastic. They really love hearing about what's happening in the building today. They love seeing that auditorium, and it was it was a lot of fun. Um, speaking of of a golden tiger, we um have learned that the um homecoming parade will be led by a twice golden tiger. Um, well, I suppose not, but anyway, Dr. Howard Tucker, wait, Dr. Howard Tucker. >> Oh, he's 100 will be at the front of the parade. He is a member of the Distinguished Alumni Hall of Fame. He is 102 years old. >> And he um until recently was
054the oldest practicing physician. >> All right. >> In the United States. Um and uh he's in such great shape. I had to make an appointment with him today. Um so that'll that's something to to really look forward to. Um we also mentioned what else? No, I think that's about it. So um 62026. Mark your calendars. save the date. And uh homecoming is the >> the 12th. The 12th. Yes. Homecoming is the 12th soon. >> Mr. Brown will be uh celebrating his 40th high school reunion. I don't know what that's like. Um and and I'll be officially off duty this that weekend. >> Okay. >> Can I also add one thing I failed to mention is that um for district staff there is a price reduction. So just $5 per game. Um, so we really want
055our teachers and staff members to participate um in our tailgating as well. >> And Sean, we're still hiring, right? We still have a couple spots to save a little save a little money on that parking spot. >> Come drive a bus for us. >> We have a lot of staff who who are alums, a lot of staff who live in the district. It's uh they're they're great members of Tiger Nation is strong. >> Anything else? Can you send the tailgate info so we can put in the weekly staff bulletin too? I sure can. Just so we can >> That's great. >> No, my committees, the uh health and wellness committee and the recruitment and retention committee will be meeting soon. They haven't resumed yet because of the beginning of the school year. >> Anything from
056you, Phil? >> Uh same thing. Safety committee I think is uh just getting started again for this year. Um the PTAs are always accepting new members. So, if you're a district parent, find your local PTA. Uh, and Reaching Heights just started their new fiscal year this month. Um, and are getting ready for another great school year. >> Thank you. Any new business? >> Uh, happy Labor Day to all of our bargaining units. >> Amen. >> Yes. Well, it's old business now, but um any unfinished business, correspondence, announcements? Nothing outstanding. Then I would like a motion to adjurnn, please. >> I motion we adjourn. >> I second. Miss Leam. >> Okay. Mr. Tumbbo. >> Yes. >> Mini. >> Yes. >> Mr. Heights? >> Yes. Miss Lewis. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Krenshaw. >> Yes. >> Thank you.
057Good night.