001we are live call meeting order 701 call please nich here herein here Mr pH here here uh silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance flag United States America the for it stands na indivisible and justice for all item item five is public participation in there is n this evening that leads us to item six which would be approval of the agenda move second Mr yes Mr yes Mrs Atkins yes Mr yes Mr yes item seven is report well good evening everybody um I do have a little bit longer of a report tonight because there are some important topics to go over including some recognition for our schools uh uh facility update and one that is left off the agenda here is uh for enrollment um so I'm going to start with recognitions over the last
002two weeks we've received three different recognitions for our school district um a purple Star Award recognition uh a recognition from the central region of osba for our authentic learning and um we received a five-star resignation or not resignation recognition award um from the Department of Education and Workforce so uh let me read through uh each one of these so the purple star uh recently Claudia Barto informed our administrative team that all three Fairbank schools have been selected to receive the purple Star Award for their commitment to supporting military service members both active and Veteran Mrs Barto has been instrumental and leading this initiative the Ohio Department the Department of Education and Workforce purple Star Award honor schools that demonstrate a small a strong commitment to students and families connected to our nation's military to receive
003this distinction schools must complete several required activities along with one optional activity showcasing their support for military connected students the military community and veterans in 2019 all three of our buildings earned purple star designations we successfully renewed our applications in 2022 extending their their designation for another three years this past Friday we were notified that our schools have once again been awarded this honor with an official announcement expected in April so that is a three-year designation for our schools we are incredibly proud of this recognition and what it signifies for our entire School Community please take a moment to congratulate Mrs BTO on this well-deserved achievement when you see your next OSB recognition in November of 2024 a group of teachers and students presented at the student achievement Fair during the Ohio school boards Association
004uh osba Capital conference the presentation focused on authentic learning at Fairbanks High School highlighting story core projects in our AP Spanish Language and Cultural and English classes these projects provided students with meaningful experiences allowing them to interview peers capture P capture person personal narratives and publish their work these recorded stories were played at graduation and archived in the story four project at the Library of Congress authentic learning has been a priority at Fairbanks High School for the past three years starting in the high school and now trickling down throughout our district recently we are notified that this presentation will receive an osba central region outstanding program award and will be recognized on March 19th 2025 staff members Mrs Chapman interested board members and I will attend to celebrate this outstanding recognition congratulations to our dedicated
005teaching team students and Mrs Chapman on this remarkable achievement five star rating and I will pass this uh letter from director dhin around so everyone can see last week we received a letter from the Department of Education and Workforce director Steve dhin congratulating Fairbanks local schools on our five-star rating overall fstar rating for the 2023 2024 state report card in his letter director dhin wrote the five-star award recognizes those who consistently give their all to creating an engaging learning environment that Fosters growth collaboration and success along with the letter the district was presented in official five-star rating Banner this recognition is a direct result of the dedication and hard work of our teachers students principles support staff and families Fair Banks Local Schools maintains high expectations and this award demonstrates that we can achieve when
006we work together stay aligned and even have a little fun along the way so great job Panthers and here is the uh you think front and center oh we'll get a picture of board members here shortly so not sure where that'll go but pretty excited about that that's that's a nice recognition from Director D and his um facility update for this month uh several proposals will be discussed tonight to ensure we remain on track with phase two of the master facility plan I'll provide a brief a little bit longer for athletics this evening brief overview of each and address any questions that board members may have GMP number two GMP number two is on tonight's agenda for approval this is slated as the last GMP for the middle school and high school Renovations that will
007occur this summer this approval will allow elfer to begin bidding and selecting trades as well as purchasing necessary equipment this guaranteed maximum pricing will further support preparations for our high school and middle school projects any questions about GMP number two all right Athletics feasibility study and exterior planning over the past two months um and I would before uh going further into this I'd like to thank Ted for taking time to be here tonight in case there are any questions about this planning and where we are from the board um over the past two months we have conducted a comprehensive review of our exterior athletic spaces as we progress with C the campus Access Road design it has be become evident that adjustments will be necessary particularly for the soccer field placement two resolutions addressing those
008projects are on tonight's agenda through the master facility task force we identified several key objectives for our exterior athletic space develop a plan to bring softball back to campus relocate the soccer competition field from State Route 38 and complete Stadium Renovations in December we met with focused groups from softball baseball football boys and girls soccer and marching van we also conducted a community survey about our athletic spaces this feedback was shared with field source which conducted our athletic feasibility study after reviewing the initial draft in January our buildings and grounds committee including Mr Phelps and Mr lipop met with the design team on February 7th to revise to refine the project scope tonight we present the revised scope for board approval which includes a synthetic softball field behind the elementary school for multi-use purposes Stadium
009renovation replacing natural grass with a durable natural Turf to accommodate up to 60 events annually the home bleachers will also be renovated this spring providing Ada access that was previously approved by the board track resurfacing addressing safety concerns and relocating track and field events a synthetic baseball INF field a new netting system reducing weather related cancellations and improving safety the project timeline is starting pretty rapidly on May 27th we expect groundbreaking for stadium Renovations there will be some preconstruction work prior to May 27th but it will not be um comprehensive or disruptive to uh Gra graduation on May 24th mid to late August we expect um the State stadium uh project to be completed late summer of 2025 softball and baseball field construction will begin in late 25 or spring of 26 the campus road
010work begins this summer Fairbanks Local Schools will invest approximately $1 million into facility improvements including 8.6 for middle and high school upgrades focused on capacity safety and system improvements invest investments in our exterior spaces aligned with the long-term District goals while ensuring the ability to develop infrastructure um for better campus access so with that I have any if there are any questions from from board members to be able to take them now did the track get cord it has not yet okay yeah it is not yet I don't know if we have a schedule for that at this point when will the board office is at the bus garage Begin work pretty quickly right yeah so um they the the track was towards the end of March um we are still refining some of that
011schedule because of just the compacted time frame but we've been working on design and cost and uh Ted has been working with the ORD team to to drive down some of that cost for uh for that project that is uh in presentation for the board tonight do we know where we're putting everything that's in the current building or bus garage at the moment that needs to be moved out to start construction um the pallet system that pallet racking system once it's uh approved this evening will get installed and it's all going to be coming over here but the first part of that is going to be purging some of the things that are there we have a lot of outdated equipment that's just stored in those spaces so doing an inventory of it and getting
012that on a board agenda for disposal um will be part of that process but there's there's desks and outdated materials in there that we should not waste our energies transporting to campus and storing they should just be disposed of so um until then it'll go into the maintenance garage and then hopefully once the pallet stacking pallet system gets put in be able to arrange that that's why it's on the agenda for this evening and that'll take in the bus garage that's mid late late spring early the goal was the last week of school yeah I mean then no transfer over to here that was the project timeline yes to start on the bus garage was the end of school no no that we would be completed with the project by the end of the school
013year yeah and if there's if there's some lag time in there where it's a little bit over and we have to find some spaces to work we will we'll accommodate that and adjust any other questions if not I will move into calendar uh our calendar update for the month tonight the board will review the proposed 2526 school calendar which includes the student start date for grades 1 through 12 on August 20th prek and kindergarten start date of August 25th and a staff start date of August 11th this is the only difference from last month's first reading is the decision to move that prek K start to the 25th staff days will be structured to support districtwide building specific and indiv idual professional responsibilities prior to finalizing this recommendation our CH Chief academic officer Mrs Chapman
014and enus coordinator Mrs Rous confirmed that all grade bands exceed the state minimum hour requirements by at least 18 days so that offers us uh plenty of flexibility even if we factor in inclement weather Following last month's board meeting we consulted with team members of The District's uh calendar committee FEA and oapi executive teams and building Administration to ensure a smooth opening for the 25 26 school year that includes um our back to school nights and alternative plans if needed any questions uh about our school calendar all right and then last on my agenda for tonight or my uh report for tonight is an enrollment update um as of February 2025 so this was uh earlier this month um our total enrollment uh was up by 19 over February of 2024 with a total of
0151,116 students um our open enrollment students are at 84 currently with 46 of those being staff members kids children upcoming enrollment changes we have one new kindergarten student moving into the district in March we have 44 students registered for Kindergarten Roundup and then 10 to 15 families have already inquired about open enrollment for next year which we expect to get we we are expecting a higher volume this year of open enrollment than we have in years past why is that does the county provide like new permits to the district new new housing permits in that are approved in the district um do you have that we we are involved when they do like plot planning for like larger subdivisions at times like we get brought into that comprehensive plan but individual homes like on private
016land um we are not notified of that uh we get brought in like in drone Township when they're doing zoning that impacts us um we are at the table for those but we have not had that same conversation with other townships and from the county we don't building permit would actually I mean that should come from the county yeah we don't get anything directly sent to us from the county um I could inquire if that's a process if they have individual homes and I think you know when we look at the broad we we rep we kind of represent quite a few count or townships where if you were able to see how many new builds were coming if that would help with projections with projections yep especially when you're selling private yeah what was
017the reason for the increase for the 10 to 15 in the open enrollment um just as some other challenges across uh various school districts that's what we programming and um as we wrap up February we're looking for a great month March and then uh heading towards uh the home stretch of the school year so unless there's any other questions to the board that's all I have for this even what's that how long Karden ground up open for um I think we go through spring break maybe mid April and then we'll have kindergarten round up to the end of the year we're actually partnering Mark Gallagher from Maryville Exempted Village School dist District um came to uh meet with Mrs Chapman and I a week ago and we are going to partner he has he and
018a team that he is uh works with have piloted kindergarten Readiness kits um to help students that are not on Pace for where you should be for kindergarten um and they're going to provide Fairbanks with uh about 70 kits that when people come in for the kindergarten R Readiness assessment based on their diagnostic we can highlight things that parents can work on with them and this is something I think in Marysville they've done for the last two years and they've seen a decrease uh an impact from them on student performance once they return back to school so um that'll happen towards the end of May and uh Mark was uh has partnered with a variety of other local organizations like impact 60 Memorial health um to bring these kindergarten Readiness uh kits to the community
019so um that'll happen towards the end of May and we're really excited that we're able to partner and give that resource to our our new families okay right thank you everybody thank you item eight is treasury report um just a couple updates um our audit has been was pushed back again um I the plan is where to start next week so um anticipative being completed by the end of March um have seen our budget simulations over the next two years of State funding right now um our funding is supposed to be about the same for the next two years so hopefully uh it stays that way could be some changes of course but right now our funding is supposed to stay stable which is good um still some property tax proposals floating around out there
020so um not really sure how that's going to to play out but um something definitely to keep a keep an eye on so but other than that we're still pretty much on track for this uh this fiscal year there any questions Mr Johnson if not is there a motion the treasures report make Mo SED Mr yes Z yes Mr Co yes Mr Li yes Mr nichel yes then Item B of the treasur report uh approves the amendment to Appropriations for fiscal year 2425 as presented second yes Mr yes yes Mr n yes is yes then item nine is consent agenda and then in consent agenda um item 10 is minutes um item 11 is uh part A is contracts for sports softball and baseball Item B is athletic volunteers for track high school track item
02112a uh certified contract 12b is contract Amendment item C is classified contract item 13 a is cour offerings and b is another course offering booklet item 14 uh approves the district calendar for 2526 as presented item 15 is a sement for College college course for D are there any questions on the cons can I ask just provide Clarity around the stien that is part of a a State rebate program that we received money for um for uh our CCP and we're able to give uh up to a certain percentage um to the instructor and so we were able to do that for uh thank you are there any questions on the consent agenda if not is there a motion so move second Mr yes Mr yes Mr n yes Mr yes Mr yes um item
02216 is to reschedule board meeting for June [Music] 23rd make a motion second Mr L yes Mr nich yes Mr yes Mr yes Mr PPS yes item 17A ising the current scope of the athletic improvements the district Improvement projects are there any questions on 17A this is the cost based on what we discussed in our special meeting correct and so what we will have to come back to the board for like GMP and and that but this gives an overall approval of the estimated budget cost as well as the scope of of the um of the plan okay so we just doing a or we doing A and B well there's there's there's several under facility A B C D and you use the whole alphabet on this one or I I I try to
023just keep it under one heading of facilities is there a motion for 17A I'll second Mr n yes yes Mr yes yes yes 17b uh approves agreement with Garmin Miller and Associates uh for the district Improvement project that's for athletic fields and bus garage Renovations yeah so I'll give some contact here too so in August um the board approved the negotiation of a contract for Design Services for uh phase two um which is kind of an umbrella approved approval um for all of our Phase 2 plans that were outside of the already HVAC and other middle school high school design so that would include future classrooms Road design Athletics bus garage board relocation and so this is a the the contract um and the for Design Services that will be used so this includes for
024right now the bus garage and athletic field design as part of the Design Services moving forward so when we start to talk about classroom design for the 2026 summer this contract would be amended and it would just add that design service fee in there so it wouldn't be an entire new contract they would just serve as amendments moving forward is that how your understanding of that Ted yes yeah yeah I think that's the goal there so and so these are separated like in the actual um you have copies of this members have copies of this you have the the underneath both of those um projects the athletic fields as well as the design for the bus garage those how those pricings are separated out and captured here in the resolution is there anything else you
025would add there Ted okay the road in this also then it is not separate it's separate yes I'll make a motion second Mr V yes Mrs Atkins yes Mr PHS yes yes yes 17 C excuse me um for Board office relocation approving the G GMP amendment number one is the CMR agreement and so there's only going to be one GMP for the bus garage correct yeah so this will be the only GMP that we have for the board relocation to the bus garage is there is there any questions and if not is there a motion make a motion second yes Mr yes Mr Liv yes Mr Nichols yes Mr yes almost there item 17d is high school and middle school improvements approving GMP amendment number two to the CMR agreement with alord didn't we already
026do that we did gmp1 gmp2 this is gmp2 so last one was for about 1.4 and then this is the the remaining totality of the project money is there a motion does this take care of everything yep so there this takes care of whatever this summer and next summer um it doesn't take care of like the classrooms for next summer but in the scope of the HVAC um the windows the electric that would be correct above the ceil windows and ceiling Lobby yes bathrooms so bathrooms um high school office renovation secure entrance staff area that's being relocated everything in this board office that is going to be updated and redone it's going to be a different look when you walk into the school next next summer late summer it's G to be a different look
027all summer yeah hopefully it's gonna be a nice look when we walk in the end of second I'll make a motion second Mr Phils yes Mr Li yes Mr Nicholls yes Mr yes Mr that yes then 17e uh pilot racking um that was presented pet is there any questions and if not is there a motion make motion second Mr yes Mr nich yes Mr yes Mr yes Mr Po yes item 18 is legal representation um you want to give a scope of that yeah so uh as the board and our school Community is aware there was a uh cyber security attack on one of our vendors Power School it provides our student information system um and through the process of remedying that uh our insurance company the Ohio school plan has partnered with uh legal
028representation here um to continue to advocate for Fairbanks Local Schools uh through the investigative process with power school and any remedies that may come from that would you add anything Aaron no yeah I think there's some not legal notifications I think they need to follow through on so yeah so they they're working with other I would assume they're probably working with other people represented by the Ohio school yes and that's why it's separate from our typical our usual board C that was was that just an Ohio situation attack yeah uh Global it was a global yes it was I don't even I don't even I don't want to speak to what the numbers were I don't have them off the top of my head but it was a global attack affecting um anyone who was
029using Power School Across the Nation as well as internationally so particularly some of those earlier accounts where there were some social security numbers at risk yes what happens if after that two-year protection period they're offering them nothing happens for two years but year four here something comes do we have any liability uh I I'd have to dig some more into that and ask some questions there to probably go through our insurance and so we can ask our our rep to see if we can get more information on that any other questions if not motion second Mr Nicholl yes Mrs bil yes Mrs Atkins yes Mr pels yes Mr yes item 19 um approves the membership with Ohio High School Athletic Association for the 2526 school year as outline below this is an annual resolution okay
030yes yes yes yes yes item 20 is discussion item I don't know if this fall on um build and grounds but have we decided what we're doing with the house no okay just curious if any there been any discussion heard anything I did have a Community member approach me and say that he would be interested in taking down the out buildings if we want down guy retired firman I didn't know if we I mean we had talked about doing some things but I mean we just I just know it's empty so I didn't know where we were at with it question I will get that ball rolling again Mr item 21 is committee reports to all right so um the final tally was 974 applications for first year uh students um major increases in our
031career exploration and of course our uh cosmetology welding nursing programs are there's weight lists as usual um we've expanded our senior only courses um and we're still recruiting for those for those folks who didn't but 855 letters went out last Friday out of the 974 so as folks uh change their mind or they will move the next person in to the slot but uh doesn't seem like we can build fast enough at this point and actually I feel like we're going to build and we're still not going to have enough space um but um I don't I know that stuff was sent to the high school and that and I forgot to bring the flyer but they're expanding the senior only courses next year to um they're offer going to offer electrical and Nail Tech
032which will be um big ones to add into it and then there's another uh manufacturing one as well with working with robotics uh for senior only courses and this helps us um get students in the door who still need something that can't get into other trades that they will into but let's see what else we got here uh we signed our we approved our design development um this past Thursday as well so we are got our foot in the door it doesn't look like we're going to break ground now until August so our project completion will be the December of 26 um so we'll be moving staff during break to shift in some different spaces when we get there but um it'll be 14,000 square feet for the health and Early Head um ear Early
033Childhood care and 37,000 square feet High Bay labs for welding and a flexx lab as well so we'll be putting about a 100 students in two welding classes same with construction and then we have our dinner coming up in April on the 23rd so if you guys can attend it's great you'll probably get an announcement or RSVP through your email and those are always good days and it looks like they're having a career fair on March 7th um and it's in the middle of the day it's between 10: and 2:30 and there's going to be business advisories there as well so you get a chance you can jump in there you say March 7th yep I think there's something going on I think it's the first night March 6th which um I'll be out of
034town and I can't attend there's an event going on I can forward it to you guys as well do you know who is coordinating the career fair like who's leading that conversation well it would be either our marketing or our business advisory Council so it's either gain or um name is escaping me at the moment I'll reach out to somebody there we have uh so our one of our authentic learning opportunities is going to be designing a career fair for May okay um and so there could be some redund some good opportunities to get them here as well some of those would work with Cindy Alderman too she might do some of that um as well okay that's great yeah there's G to be aund 100 uh business businesses there yeah we'll go we'll see
035if I can help Mr ay get his team in touch with somebody okay that'd be great yep legislative report well it's been a it's been a busy couple weeks in the Ohio State the Ohio legislature um I guess going through few of the the house committees and and Senate committees I'll go through a few of those first and um the house education committee uh heard some testimony on HB um this was basically the version of the 2627 State operating budget um and then there were there were some um some research on on that and I think there's a lot of simulations on what each district would be how each district would be affected throughout the 2627 by annual budget um and there there was some analysis from the Ohio education policy Institute and um you
036know there are definitely some Traditional School Districts that through the foundation formula are going to be um there's going to be a reduction in some funding uh for for 26 and 27 and a lot of that I believe comes from the enrollment figures are from 22 the inputs are inputs fixs not updating the cost inputs and there hasn't been any inflation in the last four there has that's the biggest issue is they're not updating the the cost inputs so the formula still isn't really even though facing an in next two years updating the cost inputs right and it it shows very much in the in the budget for the traditional uh Foundation formula um then also um as we get into some other committees uh the Senate Ways and Means Committee they heard sponsor testimony
037on Senate Bill 66 which would include uh emergency levies substitute levies and all inside millage and School District income taxes in the calculation of a District's effective millage floor what is not included in that now is that all included in the is any of that included in the none of it so they're wanting to include all emergency levies substitute levies and all inside millage and School District income taxes in the calculation of a school district's effective millage floor which so the income tax like that none of that is inside would you be able to talk a little bit about what that could do if that well I'm not I think there's a lot of questions of what they're they're trying to get out of that um on the surface it seems like it it's not
038something that's seem possible I mean that could be devastating to take that additional Revenue that we receive outside the 20 mil floor and try to include that the 20m floor um I mean that's a large percentage of our budget I don't know how that's even possible so well I sat in on that call Friday for at least a half hour where to uh Todd had that the representative talk about that particular Bill and you know my Challenge and I told Todd was is you include this extra money that we're already I mean I know you guys are trying to stretch your dollar and you're out R poll but you're basically gonna Sucker Punch Everybody by pulling in those extra funds that we have and making us account for that in our regular Revenue stream what
039for your Revenue stream so so so the the goal and I think we all agree on this is that there is a desire to provide some property tax relief to our most vulnerable citizens across the state which are primarily our fixed income senior citizen uh folks um I didn't want to call you by name Mr um The Challenge is the property tax system in the state of Ohio as we all know is tied directly to school funding uh in our legislative meeting with Bassa on Thursday roughly 343 districts are on the 20 mil floor um in the state of Ohio so if there's an alteration to the 20 mil floor um in any way it's going to have a significant impact on local school districts um the proposals where you would wrap that in to
040the effect of the floor we would then lose revenue streams which would then Force us as a school Community to have to go on the ballot for new funding and that would pose significant challenges for us as a school district um you know and and the way that we have approached our financial planning over the last several years has been very strategic to ensure that we don't have to go out for new operating funds based on the assumption that the 20 n Mill floor is going to be intact um for us it's a pretty hard line of um anything that would reduce or change a 20 mil floor is not something we would support in any way there are other ways to recommend or to address the impact on our senior citizens um when it
041comes to property tax so we had a historic revaluations across the state we experienced those in Union County um one of the things a strategy that was proposed in one of the work groups was you know you look at those reevaluations and the only way it can increase on the floor is at the inflationary rate or over three years of the inflationary rate and you use an average we could as a district adjust to that but adjustments to the 20 mil floor could be as as Mr Johnson articulated could be devastating not just the Fairbanks but across the state of Ohio because then you're going to shift the burden and ask um taxpayers to pick that up what we would end up having to do is it would truly impact students I mean this would
042not be th this would be program detrimental in a variety of ways if you're talking Athletics co-curriculars specific programming that we offer that benefits students um in a variety of ways uh it it could have a huge ripple effect not just on us but across the state so I would Advocate and we can talk more and I can share some of the information we received last week at our Bassa update um with board members on how to Advocate share stories and talk to local legislators about like because I think we are in agreement we want to help support providing relief but there's other ways of doing it besides um what we see is potentially really damaging to our students and to our school Community there are several other bills that they are working on to
043to try to try to help alleviate some time they keep claiming no funding and they give a billion dollars to private education I I think the analysis provided by uh Dr Fleer with um I'm not sure if board members saw it today uh but the Ohio education policy institute's analysis of the K12 budget provides a good breakdown of where dollars are our other bills that are in the Senate Ways and Means Committee um sb81 would authorize a property tax freeze for certain owner occupied homes including for senior individuals who are over 65 years old and Senior owner owners of manufactured homes um also Senate bill 92 this bill would authorize a total property tax exemption for the homesteads of totally disabled V veterans and their surviving spouses also in the senate in the finance committee
044um they H first hearing for Senate Bill 68 this bill would establish a non-charter educational savings program at the State Treasury in higher Department of Education and Workforce and allocate 51 million to program in FY um in the Senate housing committee they heard first hearing on Senate Bill 28 this bill would Levy attacks on certain high volume landlords that um and then new bills that were introduced in the Senate and the house Senate Bill 105 this bill would enact alysa's law and require public and chartered non-public schools to implement a wearable Panic Alert System appropriating 25 million to support the purchase of such alarm systems Senate Bill 107 was introduced this bill would require State and School District board members to appear on the ballot with a party designation Sen Bill 109 this bill would
045reimburse public and non-public charter schools to provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to students and appropriate 300 million to offset costs and then in the house HB 103 this bill would increase a homestead exemption amount from 25,000 to 50,000 and an income limit from 30,000 to 45,000 HB 106 uh the house version of alysa's law should allocate 25 million to a pilot program such as the Senate Bill HB 1113 this bill would notify the law regarding annexation would modify the law regarding annexation and final disclosure forms and requires school district approval of residential Community reinvestment Area Property Tax exemptions and then hb14 this bill was would alter age requirements for kindergarten admission expanding them to include six-year-olds who have not completed first grade and that is my legislative report not on a PowerPoint Mark
046next maybe next month hey I forwarded the PowerPoint from the legisl I meant to include it in my update yesterday the board um I forwarded the legislative committee update from last week so you can reference that from our Bass last uh last Thursday I'll continue to send those we're meeting monthly right now especially heading into the bium there's no there's no skip on and I I can send this I guess I I can scan and send this to you but this was I think that analysis report I have that electronically you can share that as well with the boarders is that yeah this is fers report got yeah it came out this morning I got it in my email already yeah yeah yeah yeah it came from osba yeah I saw Dr Fleer he played
047in the soccer game before mine yesterday I know so I was able to ask him a little bit about his analysis was a fun Sunday morning talk on the soccer field Achi was that after he scored on year yeah he played the game before yeah the golden monkeys do not beat lost Shepherds let's just be very clear that's public record now very happy all right Jo all got the uh board assignments in the elementary school middle school high school reports are in there as well as Mrs Chapman Chief academic officer report uh basically fifth grade how many after school activities do you think are are offered at the elementary school this fall for clubs organizations groups 10 n five and can you name them no got any idea there's 10 we got robotics we got
048drum we've got the fitness club we got a craft club a game club a book club a history Club a news club and a cookie club there's something for everybody going on with the elementary right now guys so it's something to keep an eye on and as you talked about authentic learning and experiences that are coming from it the bookworms are authoring their authoring their own stories so we got book writers at the elementary level uh the fifth grade is working on a new student welcome packet there's examples of that in your book so so a lot of things going on there as you get to the middle school and the high school there's a lot of scheduling things going on uh Middle School is also trying to create more consistent grade level teams to
049help with coll collaborative projects and authentic learning the third quarter reward trip will be to dragon Lanes this year so that's Middle School High School is also preparing for State Testing uh career and job fair is coming up in May there and DT is actually going to be working with a group of community businesses next next month so that's part of what's going on with that high school's also developing the food pantry initiatives uh for districtwide food pantry then when you get into Janelle's report there's a lot of information in there about the science of reading and I think we tend to overlook that it's not just reading it's l which also takes in Reading Writing and speaking so all those are going on she mentions testing coming up in April um the authentic learning
050we've got the memorials and monuments project that's going on so that was some of the things that are coming there 72% of the third graders passed the LA state test in the fall already so we're in good shape there the thing that I'm most excited about that and watchel S out is that there is a group coming up and it's part of the DT project that's going to go to thegr Kentucky March 12th and 13th they have a guy down there his name is Buddy Barry he's the superintendent down there if you've never heard this guy you've never seen him you need to pull him up and look if you want I'll send you the link but if you go to YouTube YouTube videos and go to Buddy Berry oh can't read my own writing
051here now but but uh look for the student in student Innovation seminar of 2019 if you can't get cranked up after seeing this guy talking to this guy he's got a school 895 kids and they've been doing strictly authentic learning for several years now he presented the National osba Conference probably six7 years ago JY wber attended it it's it's amazing what this guy gets done and how far it up he gets everybody so that's it take a look at that it's good that's way more exciting than legislative report yeah buddy Barry can't get you cranked up nobody will building and grounds a lot of building ground I guess we covered it the only thing I would say is is Ted and your crew at Garmin um I just want to thank you you for the
052short time that we've had to plan this master facility plan over the last short four years years basically and you've been you know you guys have been great to work with and well I'm excited to see the see the fruits of our labor on this I guess as as we move forward yeah I would just add like some of the one of the things that I don't think I captured in my report was the pivoting of of how we had to sequence some of these athletic fields because of the change in the nature of the road laying down some of these athletic steps first will help when we we do the campus Access Road next year um so it's a little bit of Shifting and moving of funds um but ultimately getting us to the
053same goal and so shifting that based on feedback that we worked on with ODOT some of those moving part so I appreciate the board's flexibility in jumping in um and really looking at what could best serve some of those long-term objectives and um Ted uh Ryan deay from fieldsource um really pivoting and trying to pull together um some plans and and changing their thinking along some of the constraints that we have as a district so uh it's been a good process and look forward to seeing it uh unfold I would agree I I think this is a great investment for fair Banks and I think we we are going to improve everything that we looked out the we aim to improve as far as Safety and Security and the three C's as Mr sh has
054stressed a time or two Chief repeating officer good job Chief repeating officer everybody did uh with that there is a reason to go into executive session this evening uh to consider the employment of a Public Employee or official is there a motion so move second yes Mr yes Mr yes yes yes think about a 5 minute break yes this is I just