BOE Meeting October 2025

001I'd like to call to order the October regular meeting of the Oak Hills Local School District Board of Education. If you could all stand for the pledge, please. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay, Mr. Bane, if you could call the role, please. >> Mr. Oran, >> here. >> Mrs. Philpot >> here. >> Mr. West, >> here. Mr. Hayy >> here. >> Mrs. Ibold >> here. >> Thank you. Um, first up, we have communications. >> Uh, yeah. Welcome to CEO Harrison to everybody that's here tonight. Um, the only communication from me tonight is just a reminder that we have our second community forum for the bond issue and that is

002tomorrow night at Oak Hills High School and that will take place at 7:00. So, anybody in the community is welcome to come out. Steve and I will be presenting and then taking any questions after the presentation. >> Any questions on that? No. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Moving on. Could I have a motion to adopt the agenda? >> So moved. Second. >> Call the role, please. >> Mrs. Philpot, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. >> Mr. Hayy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ibold, >> yes. >> Mr. Organ, >> yes. >> Okay, we can move on to the treasures report. >> Thank you, Mr. President. Uh, I have two uh items this evening. First will be the financial report. Uh, if you look in your packet behind the gold sheet, you'll find the financial

003report. We actually have two financial reports, both August and September, just based on how the weekends and the holidays and everything else fell. Uh I will be reading off the most recent which is our September report. September 2025 total receipts general fund 3.7 million. Total expenditures general fund 5.3 million. If you turn to the back side with the graph our ending cash balance in the general fund 35.3 million. Uh and there is no activity that was out of the norm for the month of September in the general fund to share with the board. Um moving to the permanent improvement fund, total receipts 510,000, total expenditures 578,000. Uh and our ending cash balance in our permanent improvement fund is 3.3 million. Uh we did have a chiller replacement at Oak Hills High School uh which was

004555,000. uh and that was budgeted and appropriated and our board approved that um prior to the start of that project. So, any questions on the financial report? Okay. Uh the other item I have this evening uh is our financial forecast. And so, Mrs. Jamie Burley, assistant treasurer, myself, will be presenting the forecast this evening. Uh and all of this will be publicly posted on our website as all of the forecasts are and so the presentation that you will hear this evening uh ohsd us will be available. Uh and Oakills is in a unique position that we haven't been in quite some time. But we're going to really dive deep into where we are. But before we do that, um if you look if you look here on uh your screen there, struggle a little bit

005here. Okay, you may recall the forecast if you look on the left side, the forecast traditionally was due in the top left, November 30th, and then we had an update on May 31st. Okay, that's that's been the practice now for a number of years. Uh, and that quite frankly made a lot of sense. Um, November gives you time for your staffing levels. You kind of have an idea as far as who's taking health insurance, so on and so forth. Uh, and then also many districts including Oills will be on the ballot in this November, not for an operating issue. But if you have a November deadline for a forecast, you can update your forecast accordingly and see how those election results end, which will impact your forecast. Okay? Same thing with the May 31st deadline.

006That was the prior law prior to July 1st. As everyone probably knows, July 1st, we entered a new bianium budget signed by the governor. And so under the current law now, if you look on the right side, um the current law requires that we submit a forecast by October 15th. Um and then again the last day of February. That's for this year. Starting next year, we have to submit a forecast by August 31st. And so that is very very problematic uh for not only Oakills but for every district across the state. Why is that problematic? an August 31st deadline. As I mentioned, even on the October 15th deadline, keep in mind that our board acts on items once a month, okay? They act on items the first Monday of each month. So that means my

007office will be generating a forecast in early July, which also means that we have no idea what our staffing levels look like. We have no idea turnover. Um I mentioned election results and so there we don't have our tax settlement at that point. It's it's problematic for a number of a number of reasons. It's not just oakills but that is going to be a challenge moving forward. Just to kind of lay the foundation here as far as what the future holds. Uh also sorry we're struggling here. Also on the left side, you will notice that instead of a 5-year forecast, the state legislators have now cut it down to a four-year forecast. So, you have this current school year plus three additional school years. Um, there's all kinds of different theories and thoughts on that.

008Our district will continue to use the 5-year forecast publicly. Um, but we will actually submit a 4-year forecast to the Ohio Department of Education. So, um, thoughts on that are potentially that the legislators don't want to go that far out because typically when you're going that far out, you'll see higher levels of deficits. But that's just a theory that many have in our working world right now. So, moving forward with the agenda, we'll turn it over to Jane to talk about general fund revenue and expenditures. Uh, we will have six items to talk about this evening. um focus on those issue. >> So before we jump into item number one, it's important to understand how the community allocates district. So there are three separate buckets. Um so where does your taxes go? So for every

009dollar 78 cents goes to the general fund to feature your dayto-day operations your teacher supplies utilities etc. 14 cents goes to the home improvement fund or PI infrastructure and facility upgrades and then 80 cents goes to the dead service fun. So the focus of my piece is going to be on that 78. So where do we get our revenues from the general fund? um it comes state, local, um the township and then others. So a significant portion comes from the state on this 30% and you can see in the past 5 years it's pretty much been flat and we're not expecting much growth in the upcoming years. The largest piece of our pie is the local property taxes. Um so that's 78 that I just discussed. Um you can see that there's been little growth

010the last 10 years with the exception of fiscal year 24 and 25. Um Hamilton County had a reappraisal and so we saw massive uh increases in property values. Um but moving forward again we also get revenue from the township through tiff. Um so we get revenue from green and deli township. You can see that our revenue um in the past has fluctuated significantly making it a little difficult to project. uh we are anticipating a reduction in fiscal year 26 and this is just due to a change in the tip population. So what makes up the 8% of the other uh instructional and extracurricular fees, commissions, Medicaid reimbursements. The biggest piece of that 8% is interest. Um so federal rate or fed rates were cut. So um it's better to invest return on investments. So we're

011not getting that return that we were seeing earlier. So if you are a picture person, here's a graph on where our revenue has been since fiscal year 22. You see a large bump there and that is due to a reappraisal. Um and then you see it dip down to 26 and that's due to the tip calculation and then we're kind of um anticipating it to be flatlined. So long story short, we have significant revenue concerns. um we're not getting more funds if any less. So we discussed revenue, now discussed expenditures. Um we are a people business, so the majority of our funding goes to pay your salaries and benefits to employ personnel. Um just like any other school district. Um here at Hills, we like to serve all students at the highest level possible. We

012have an array of students um ranging from specialized to gifted and everywhere in between. We do have a strong special ed program. Um so for some families they may do as a destination district other workplace but this kind of leads into the expenditures. So you can see here um the number of special educational students over the past 10 years has increased. Same with autistic kiddos. It's nearly it has doubled in the last 5 years. So what does this mean? Well, the state gives us about $3,500 for regular education and about 58 for special education. So the $2,300 difference is supposed to cover the cost of what it costs to educate um the special ed students and it doesn't come close depending on the level. So we have seen um an increase in the number of

013positions in special ed. You can see that it's doubled over the past 10 years. Um and we hired more than 100 special ed teachers and aids and buyers. So that directly impacts our expenditures. Um we also there's also been federal mandates that require us to have aid and student ratios and such. that is between the number of special ed students increasing and federal law um that accounts for those increases. Um there's also been a reduction in federal funds. We are still receiving our federal funds just at a little bit lesser of a level. And then we are on year three um of a three-year contract with our unions. So that will expire and we will be in negotiations in the spring of 2026 which will have a large impact on our budget. So this slide

014here shows historically so in fiscal year 22 um how we hire teachers at what step. So you can see the average step ran was 3 and 1/2 in 22. our team had met and we were going to try to lower that number to two. So you can see over the past several years we've we've made strides. So in fiscal year 26 we are at 1.9 and we do understand this could fluctuate depending on the position. Um some positions require a little bit more years of experience but this is another way we're trying to stretch it out. So our second largest expense is So it's called dental. So we are part of swoosh which is a 10 district and we are one of the few districts with parti um and we just received the highest health

015insurance renewal in the last 8 years 12%. And then other expenses include you know gas, electric, water supplies. Our homeless foster population is increasing. So those transportation costs are increasing as well as contract services. So if you look here um line graph of our expenses. So we've really increased our expenses. You can see around 24. Why the large increase? Well, if you remember, we received CO dollars. So, with our CO dollars, we took existing staff, roughly 38 existing staff members that were paid out of the general fund, moved them to the CO funding, and then that money expired, got spended by a certain date. So, then all of those 38 staff members came back to the general fund. Um and then moving forward we're um aware spectrum growth. So to sum it up, unfortunately our

016revenue is going down and our expenses are going up and about. Okay. So uh this first item we have six items. Um we'll move quickly through the other five as well. Uh and so the next item on the agenda is pending legislation and um anyone that turns onw.com or wherever you get your media from pending legislation has never been right now in funding education. So what does pending legislation mean? What it means is is a lot of confusion quite frankly. You you're hearing different messages, different proposals, so on and so forth. Columbus dispatch go to federal property taxes all neighbors have a plan. Uh quite frankly, I don't know that they have a plan. Um by all these things you're going to see here and this has been going on now since Jamie mentioned the

017reappraisal back in 2023. There's been a huge push u from the state legislators uh to reform property taxes joint legislation. Okay. So a committee was formed 3 years ago. They came up with 21 proposals. Uh then we decided that we're going to have a certain break approach. Senior citizens are going to get a discount. If you have certain level you're going to get a discount. Um then we're going to change to 20 mil floor which is kind of like school funding 2011 301. It's a little bit more advanced, but changing the 2004 has a huge impact across school districts. Uh, let me say a recap how much you can have in your savings account. You can only have 30 or 40% in your savings account. Um, okay. No, actually, we're just going to veto a

018couple things that the general assembly just passed. We're going to veto uh two two out of the three things. We're going to veto um I'm sorry, two out of the three things that the governor vetos. We're going to go back and we're going to override those vetos, which I've never seen in the history of public education before. Uh, and now all of a sudden, as of last week, we have a working group made up of former legislators, so on and so forth, uh, that come up with 20 new proposals. Well, didn't we just have 21 proposals 3 years ago? Well, we did. Okay. What's the point in all this? The point in all this is is such a moving target right now that all these numbers are very, very fluid. It's never been as crazy

019as it's been right now. Um, Buller County, you may have heard of Muller County having given their taxpayers a break. How did they do that? Well, Mer County did that because they took care of their senior citizens through exemptions, so on and so forth. Um, which does have an impact on schools. Hamilton County, will they follow? Maybe they will, maybe they won't. The point of this is is we absolutely have an understanding for and respect everyone's financial position and we respect the decisions that have been made. However, we also have a school district to run and we also have to forecast and plan accordingly. And as Jamie mentioned, many of these numbers up here, the expenses the state has unfunded mandates. They're not funding students at the levels they need to be funding them. The

020most recent is 1.7 billion, excuse me, 1.7 billion being taken from school districts. This just came out last week. Uh you may have heard of this proposal. This proposal says we are going to look back to 2023 reappraisal which received revenue from that re reappraisal. we're going to go back to 2023 and we're actually going to take money back from it. And so that's the state um taking control of the local community's decisions. Local community supported leies in years past and the state is saying we're going to take this on our own hands at this point. Again, just proposals uh senator as I mentioned. So there's just so much going on right now that it's very difficult. This actually goes back to 1997. Many of them understand that state funding of Ohio, public school education

021funding in the state of Ohio has been unconstitutional since 1997. Um, and now based on this huge housing market boom and the reappraisals, it's now all come to fruition where there is pandemonium uh really across the state. 1975, this is statewide. Okay. In 1975, on average, what did you contribute to your school district? Your requirement statewide was 46%. As a local resident across the state, that has now shifted. The local communities are now on average paying 75% of the cost for public education, what it used to be 46% way back in 1975. Conversely, businesses um commercial history has gone from 50 to 54% of the burden. Their burden has dropped to only 25%. Okay, so that's the shift that you've seen um from 75 to 23. So what are other districts? Why can't a lot

022of figure it out? Indiana doesn't have issues. You know, Michigan, Pennsylvania, so on so forth. You can read right there. We rank eighth in the entire country as far as highest property taxes in the nation. Okay. In the state of Ohio, it's a major major issue. Um again, this is all publicly presented. For those that are a little bit more advanced, uh 409 districts for the the 20 floor. Uh and so this is again all come to fruition at this point. Uh the state has done some other things. Uh they've reduced the income tax. They reduced the state income tax. You can see here 2.75 uh down from 3.1% statewide u certain ranks. Uh they reduce the income tax. Uh we can talk about other things that they funded state other things. But um with

023that being said, what's the point of this? The point of this is is the picture doesn't look good. Jamie talked about the revenue where the revenue is. If we're expecting any shot from the state, um I'm not very confident about that right now. Trending as Jamie mentioned about 1% on revenue uh moving forward starting 26. Uh so we're not seeing any revenue and regardless of what the state does. Okay, we have significant concerns with our revenue regardless of all those pending legislative acts that I just mentioned right there. Quite frankly, there are concerns but If they don't implement any of those, there are significant revenue concerns for our forecast. Item three, uh, our forecasting cash balance. So, where are we moving? What does the future look like? When we add our expenditures to our forecast,

024obviously you can see um, we have some spending. That means our expenses are outpacing our revenues. Okay? And I think it's important to note that, you know, they're not outpacing them at a wild exorbitant number like we're spending at such a high rate right now. Okay? It's just our revenues are so sluggish that it's really hard for our position to try and make up this gap. So when you have this gap as far as expenses more than revenue coming in, that's called spending. So you have some money in the piggy bank, right? Your savings account. This current school year, this current fiscal year is anticipating $89 million revenue and we're planning on spending 98 expenditures, excuse me. Okay, spending $8 million. That means we are going into our savings account by $8 million. Steve, how

025much money do we have in our savings account? Can we sustain this? The answer is no. We can't sustain this. Steve, what's that equivalent to a property tax increase? because you're telling me you're not going to get any money from the states. Where would they have to come from potentially low? 8.3 billion in deficit spending is equivalent to a 51 local community. It has just a tread for the current year we are in 2026. Okay, that's how we're moving forward as the trend continues. If you were at a meeting in May, uh presented publicly in May, uh these financial positions and these situations were on the horizon. Uh, and in May I get green, yellow, red. Okay. Best practice is is you like to have a reserve of at least 3 months. So you want

026to have in your savings account at least 3 months of operating cost. Okay. So if you have 3 months, that is the threshold. You start dropping below 3 months action needs to be taken. That's this 90 days over here. 90 days is equivalent to 3 months. So in May when we presented the forecast okay stability actually needed emergency stability is green okay this is in May all right and this is where we are today okay we're trending toward action needed in the yellow section what does it look like today obviously this early provides revenue expenditures and so on and so forth um because of these items uh working on the calculation of Grand Township interest rate staffing levels uh and that's important that these are required staffing levels. These aren't this is this is a

027non-negotiable federal law says depending on uh the need of the student there may be specialized classrooms that require us to add positions such as aids that Jamie illustrated. So those are nonnegotiable self insurance increase and reduction grant funding since May we add over $3 million to our budget and again it's not really that important. Okay. So the updated forecast uh we are now here this is 26 we are now in the place of action is needed and quite frankly we haven't been in this place since 2011 2012 2013 which was the last time we had an operating le okay I just mentioned last time we had an operating le 2013 well how have you district how have you been able to stay on the ballot for 12 plus years. And how are you as a

028district able? We only had one le in 28 years. Okay. We've done some things on our own. However, the majority of things have been things that have been out of our control. We've been able to stay on the ballot because the retirement system changed the law, changed the rules as far as being able to retire. So, we saw mass exodus of retiring from 2015. We saw staff turnover in 2015. It was safe revenue there. nothing we initiated union concessions through benefits in 2019. Jamie mentioned dollars. Okay, there was obviously a large concern of the pandemic hit. The co dollars for lack of better words were man from the sky though we anticipate those dollars. 2023 mappraal and then the district also did on an energy conservation project back in 2015 that's on state resources. But

029the point of this story is is I don't see any of these things repeating anytime soon. Okay. The point of this story is also how credible are the numbers? Well, the numbers obviously have changed based on things that were more control, but I don't see I don't see any of those things on our horizon moving forward. >> Hey, Steve. Yes, sir. Um, but the district has also taken like 60 actions, right? You want to spend a minute talking about that? Yeah. Give me one second. Okay. So, today I asked, we're at $8 million in spending. We're spending more than we're bringing in for this school year. What does it look like moving forward? We're at this 95 days cash. So, we're at a dollar threshold. Moving forward, you can see some very daunting numbers. Quite

030frankly, numbers that we haven't seen here in a very long time. um numbers to the tune of 11 million deficit spending, 13, 16, and 18. And you can see what our savings account looks like, our bank account looks like. Again, some of these things have occurred um here just in the last 3 or 4 months. [Music] So to summarize, where is our fiscal health general fund? Obviously, you know, uh there are significant not only immediate needs, but there are ongoing needs with our financial forecast moving forward and some significant concerns with Opel's budget. There's fiscal stress that we haven't seen since 2013 as I mentioned. Um and this is a revenue issue. Make that very clear why it's a revenue issue. I'll just say it's a revenue issue because we can't spend any guys. There's

03123 school districts in the county. 22 of them are spending more than we are. We're 22 out of 23. Okay. As far as lowest spending, we spend less than everybody except one district. So again, it's a revenue issue. Not an expenditure issue. Options won't all recommendations at this point. here and for community input options or combination for any schools that go through this which is how the schools are funded. Your options are basically you can reduce you can't borrow. So your options are you can add which will likely be through a levy or you can reduce unfortunately reductions as J mentioned 85 monthly staff um reductions would only impact forecast and unfortunately as well is attrition is not going to be magic sounds a little aggressive but it's not it's not going to solve our

032concerns okay through attrition We have 8 to 10 retirements. That's not going to change the line in the $8 million investment spending. Uh just moving forward, Mr. Hy, uh you mentioned some of our transparency and stewardship options. Uh obviously, as each of you know, we have some meetings. Everything has been presented. All forecasts are available on our website uh which tell our story return on investment which we're very very proud of. very high achievement at a low cost. No kills as far as taxes assessed is very low compared to the county. Uh our curriculum team has done a fantastic job as far as achievement with a 4K to the report card that recently came out and it's difficult to see but essentially um we're performing at a very high level. Okay. and we're going in

033at a very low cost and that's verified by our department of education workforce. Uh that's a third party [Music] as mentioned 23 school districts in Hamilton County um second lowest in spending as I mentioned um and then administrative costs. I think it's important to understand that our ratio uh is third lowest in county to count. So don't quot me on the number 180 to 200 students for every one administrator or no kills. That's the third lowest in Hamilton County. Um as Mr. Tracy mentioned, we have something called the transparency driver. uh right here that transparency tracker since 2013 we have a brand trail the last time we asked the community and received additional revenue from community from our community we have a brand trail over 60x as we that the district has taken some of

034it's generating revenue some of it's reducing expenditures it goes something as high as offering a different health insurance plan to as low as removing fox sheets okay we're running the Final two items, uh, permanent improvement fund. Just quickly, our PI fund, as Jamie mentioned, that was our 78 cents on the dollar. Now, we're just talking about our infrastructure, 14 cents on the dollar. Our PI fund is in a stable position. Um, Mr. N operations technology with Dr. Solski, um, Mr. Malloy, we've done a fantastic job of maintaining what we have here. We have four facilities. team does a phenomenal job for team novel job as far as keeping updates on our curricular items. um difficulty but our cash is in a sustainable position our PI fund even if we have to borrow uh for future

035needs we could do that our bond issue uh our signing bond issue I know there's a lot of tough news up here our signing bond issue I think it's very important to state that u personally I double down on issue and the reason I say that is um is this is 8 cents on a dollar Okay. And I mentioned our facilities and Mr. mentioned we're having a community meeting tomorrow night. Um but going to our future at that forum tomorrow night which will be recorded and posted on the website. Thank you Mr. Gra for getting all this information out the white building right now. We talked about this extensively. Um the state of Ohio is going to fund over 50% of this project. And so again I double down on this 8 cents on the

036dollar. And the reason I know that now is because states checks for $7 million. The states the check to many other issues and our neighbor districts have cashed in on state funds. So it gives opportunity to to have the state pay for over 50% of the project. There'll be a net zero tax increase. There will not be a tax increase based on bank today. aging facilities we've talked about um and then capacity uh is becoming more important issue uh with television over township uh as well as uh student demographics that we have currently no kills and that we project moving forward. Uh the last thing on issue transparency is the name of the game uh third party verified if you go to the Hamilton County website uh you will see here the cost for the

037bond issue. Okay. and how much it cost $100,000 home. It's about $74ish about $74 on $100,000 home. Um, but what's very very important is this letter F this little footnote that says, well, we're asking for 2, call it 2 mills, 2.4 mills is going to be paid off with mortgage paid off for the 1997 bond issue for middle school. It's a lot of information. That's the state of the district's financial position and fiscal health. Um, you can see the three funds that we talked about, general funds, permanent improve funds, new retirement funds, welcome community. Any questions for you all to reach out? Jamie, myself, any questions for the board? >> I don't really have a question, but a rather a comment. Um, basically the reason property taxes as high as they are and and there's

038a real push back on that, the legislature wants to make it more difficult for us to raise revenue is because the state of Ohio funds students at a very very low level. Um, compared to all the states around us, they are we Ohio is the lowest. Um, in fact, if they funded us at the average of Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania, the way they uh fund their students, we'd get an extra $16 million from the state. and we could cut everybody's property taxes. So, this is this whole problem is is from the state of Ohio. And at the same time, they're trying to make the rules harder to uh pass uh levies for local governments and and school districts. So, it's um it's just it's just unfair the way that the burden has

039been shifted on the on the homeowner and property uh taxes. And um we've been trying to do the best we can to keep expenses down and to do the good job also educating kids, but it's just getting tougher and tougher when they fund us at a much much lower level than they fund people that get vouchers or uh all the neighboring states around us. So it's it's tough. Thank you both for all the information. We can move on to the superintendence report. >> Yeah, it is my pleasure to introduce Jeff Herrell. Jeff is the principal here at CO Harrison. Uh him along with Jim Campbell. They will uh giving us an update on all the great things going on at CO Harrison. So, welcome Jeff and Jen and thanks for being here. >> Thank you.

040Thank you for being here tonight, allowing us to host and you guys want some good news coming. The good news is this. Uh we have so many hardworking, talented, dedicated professionals in our district working really hard. They're resourceful. They're creative uh to get good opportunities for our families and our students. And we're going to talk a little bit about that tonight and some of the things going on in C. So every year uh we have a theme in conjunction with the PTA. This year's is rise to the challenge and that ties in with our academics, our attendance and our behavior. We talk about that a lot. Talk about that every day the kids and setting goals for them to achieve and be the very best. We're very proud to be a four and a half

041out of five star uh state of Ohio and that's a testament to our students, our teachers, our parents, our school community. Uh it's just a great place to be associated with. So similar to what we were talking about earlier, despite the fact we're not spending as much, our students are still achieving very high uh which is very impressive and testament to all our school community. Uh quickly I mean some of the the things that go with that I mean strong partnerships we have a partnership with St. Joe we have a lot of students come through here for student teaching and a lot of great resources come from the mountain that's helped us out tremendously. uh Oak Hills High School. We have students that come down from Oakland High School, formerly Mr. Claus's class, now Mr.

042Claus's class. Uh they come in and tutor our kindergarten students. And these are students in particular who think they want to go into education. And so that's a class they're taking at the high school. They're kind of getting some real life experience before they go into college and see if that's what they want to major in. So that's another great partnership. We have um the Oak Hills Educational Foundation on Southern Chad coming in and the lobby, but uh we got over $16,000 of grant money. Uh we're the highest in any school. So we have a lot of teachers writing for those grants to improve the lives of their students in their classrooms and give them better opportunities. Uh, Beach Acres, you're probably familiar with Beach Acres. It is a separate entity outside of Oak Hills

043and it has plenty of programs to help students and families that are strong and we're actually partnering with them this year. They're coming in working with some of our students that are need that demographic. They really need that extra support. So, uh, last PTA, our walkathon is on Friday. We raised over $33,000 uh, this year. uh leading up to the walkathon and dad go to fun everything that we do from here on out for the rest of the year from enrichment day in spring to moms and moms and dads all those important things. Uh again it's nice to have so much support and so many partnerships with so many uh organizations within Oak Hills and outside of Oak Hills to give those opportunities to our kids. Um now we also have a good morning colonels

044club and they did a video for you guys. Every Friday morning we have video announcements and they uh do anything from modeling PBIS how to go through our lunch properly and go and sit lunch or dismissal to celebrating individual students teachers and their achievements and make a video uh every Friday we show it to the kids and that's how we go through the day. They want to make one for you guys tonight just highlighting some of the other stuff I get a chance to mention uh that we have going on. Good morning. We're actually good evening our new haircut. We like to show you a few things a few things that are [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat up here. Heat. Heat. Yeah. Heat. Yeah. Heat. All right. Challenge two ways to solve problems. It teaches

045us make [Music] It's important for you to know you are quite literally these are they make you stronger they make you smarter and they will happen all the I'm getting Heat. [Music] [Applause] Heat. [Applause] Heat. Heat. Any questions? >> We appreciate it. Thank you. With no questions, I will say I'm going to brag a little bit for CO Harrison because Jeff um is not one to say a whole lot about uh or to brag about the results, but as he quickly went through, they were uh rated a four and a half star out of five star this year on the report card, which is outstanding. Um in addition, they were fivestar in achievement, and they were our only elementary school that was a fivestar in achievement. um they saw an increase in their progress rating,

046their gap closing rating and I believe Jeff we talked about your performance index was the highest since >> yeah in in the performance index um that is made up of every kid score and and where the kids score on the achievement level and so really some outstanding things that his staff and him and our kids and our community are doing here at CO Harrison. And so really a congratulations for a job well done. >> Yep. >> Congratulations and thank you very much. >> Okay. We can move on to district reports. >> No district reports. >> Okay. Do we have anyone signed up this evening? Okay. Um anything under old business? >> No old business. >> We can move on to new business specifically the treasur's recommendations. Thank you, Mr. President. Item number one, the minutes.

047I recommend that the board of education approve the minutes of September 8th and September 22nd as attached. >> So moved. >> Second. Call the role, please. >> Mr. West, >> yes. >> Mr. Hayy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Eyebold, >> yes. >> Mr. Oran, >> yes. >> Mrs. Philpot, >> yes. >> Item number two, I recommend that the board of education approve the monthly financial statements for August and September 2025 as attached. >> So moved. Second. >> Call the role, please. >> Mr. Hayy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ibold, >> yes. >> Mr. Yorgavan, >> yes. >> Mrs. Philpot, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. >> Item number three, I recommend that the board of education approve the following donations from the Oak Hills Alumni and Education Foundation. Uh, James and Patricia Dursttock, uh, Dr. Joseph

048and Marie Paladino, Brett and Molly Sneber, Mary Werner, and Brandon Royer, the Quantis Club of Riverview Hills. Uh, as submitted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Call the role, please. >> Mrs. Ibold, >> yes. >> Mr. Oravon, >> yes. >> Mrs. Philpot, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. >> Mr. Hayy, >> yes. Item number four, I recommend that the board of education approve the following appropriation adjustments as submitted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Call the role, please. >> Mr. Oravon, >> yes. >> Mrs. Philpot, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. >> Mr. Hayy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ibold, >> yes. >> Item number five, I recommend that the board of education approve the financial forecast as attached. So moved. >> Second. >> Call the role, please. >> Mrs. Philpot, >> yes. >>

049Mr. West, >> yes. >> Mr. Hayy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ibold, >> yes. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Can move on to superintendence recommendations. >> Yes. Item number one, I recommend that the board approve the following Oak Hills Local School District student trips as attached. >> So moved. >> Second. Call the RO, please. >> Mr. West. Yes, >> Mr. Hayy. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Eyebold. >> Yes, >> Mr. Oravon. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Philpot. >> Yes. >> Item number two, I recommend that the board approve the following personnel actions A through O as submitted. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Call the RO, please. >> Mr. Hayy, >> yes. >> Mrs. Ibold, >> yes. >> Mr. Yorgavan, >> yes. >> Mrs. Philpot, >> yes. >> Mr. West, >> yes. >> That is it.

050Thank you. Thank you. Again, we have no one signed up to address the board. Do we have anything under board discussion for this evening? No items. Okay. If not, I need a motion to move into executive session for the discussion of the board's legal council of disputes involving the board that are subject of pending or imminent court action. >> So move. Second. >> We'll call the role, please. >> Mrs. Eyold, >> yes. >> Mr. Jorgavon. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Philpot. >> Yes. >> Mr. West. >> Yes. >> Mr. Hy. >> Yes. >> Hey, we will adjourn the meeting after our executive session ends. So, we will not be returning to this room. Thank you.