001good evening I'd like to call this March 17th 2025 Sylvania Board of Education meeting to order Mr KO can you call the role Miss Huffman here M Conlin here Mrs Lavalette here Mr Feller here Mr Bowden here thank you please join us in the Pledge of Allegiance the flag is at the back I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with libery and justice for all thank you and happy St Patrick's Day and we are with you Dr mle thank you Miss Hoffman um for my superintendence report I would like to begin with saying how happy and pleased I am to see a room full of our students here and their families thank you for coming out tonight
002uh as always to have nice to have a full house if not for anything but the first portion of our meeting so noting that um once we do our accommodations we do recognize that folks are anxious to get home so please feel free when we jump into that portion of our agenda to leave but first I would like to present my superintendence report on Friday many of us in the district had the pleasure of attending our annual Hall of Fame luncheon as well as the Hall of Fame din dinner our luncheon was held at Central Trail Elementary and our dinner was held at the Sylvania Country Club it was fabulous to see so many of our alumni out and being celebrated for their accomplishments um it truly is evidence of how well the sylenia schools
003have performed and invested in our number one assets our students for decades and it's such a privilege to be there we also were able to once again recognize our educator of the year which she did a phenomenal job Mr Kerr was fasc not fascinating but moving fabulous moving just her whole speech it was another opportunity to acknowledge her as an as the educator of the year so Friday was a fantastic day here in syania schools Saturday I had the pleasure of going over to South View and kicking off dance for a chance which was outstanding yay it was a lot of fun and a lot of energy although I did start at 12:00 noon I don't know what the energy looked like around 6:30 or 7 but the kids were raring to go it was
004wonderful they were um supporting the LLS organization and it was personal this year for some of our cougars as we lost one of our own uh just under maybe around a month ago so it was an honor to be there and to see our students pay it forward and to make a difference for those who have been stricken with illness so thank you cougars who are in the room who participated either there in person or help volunteer to set up that day or donate it money or any other aspect to support dance for a chance um a couple of other things I wanted to share is this Wednesday uh a couple of us a board member myself Adam will be traveling down to Columbus along with some folks in our Educators in our district to
005speak to our state representatives about a very hot topic that is really on the Forefront of our mindset as a school district and that has to do with school funding for those of you who may already be aware Mr kooch was kind enough to send a letter to all of our parents and residents in the district of which we had contact information for email addresses um if you haven't had a chance please check out his presentation that really outlines school funding not only just how it works but also the potential impact of the governor's budget Bill we are really going to Advocate that's our whole purpose is to go down there and have a voice and FaceTime with our representatives to explain our story that if the budget bill goes through as planned right now
006the impact it will have on our community our students our schools and our programs and really plea with our representatives to go in a different direction and fund us at an appropriate level and I think that's the 2024 level instead of 2022 is that correct Mr KO so I just want our community members that are here tonight as well as those who may be watching at a later time to know that um our board members will be in attendance I think it's Mr Feller you will be going down to continue to advocate for not only public education but education at our svenia schools that so we can continue our tradition of Excellence um and that concludes almost almost my superintendent report uh students you only have about four more days till spring break hang in
007there next week we will start uh Friday will be the last day of school for our students in the district and spring break is upon us and we have entered our fourth quarter so we will have the stretch underway once we get back um so I'm excited for our students have to have a break as well as our Educators it's a time for them to kind of sit back relax have some fun I certainly hope that mother nature cooperates so we can get some warm weather not only for our students and families but up for our employees as well that concludes my superintendent's report this evening thank you right and it's time for a recognition of achievement foundations oh and we have a room full I'm so thrilled to have everyone here tonight um I
008am recommending item 3.1 which is the recognition of achievement uh before the board actually votes on the recognition of achievement I do want to highlight we have some uh several students that are here tonight uh we are going to call you up we have certificates for each of you um we will call you up by name as well as your coaches and then we will also take a group shot over here by the um the back um stand with the logo on it okay some of you have been here before so this is old hat and that's fun to say as well so we're going to come on down to the microphone and Podium and recognize our students on behalf of the board um their names are else is all right uh we are first
009going to recognize our South viw High School students um who scored uh an ACT score of 26 or higher as noted on the agenda and now we are going to jump right into our student athletes tonight we are going to recognize our first our South viiew boys basketball team um we're going to start though with the coach coach Springs come on up here you are the coach of the year for the Cardinal division for 2425 and we also are going to recognize the nlll player of the year Cardinal division from South viw High School Jaan Witcher come on Jon all right team cougars come on down as they call your name Dr you should have jiren Witcher y yep that's next jiren Witcher come on oh you're right there you get other one sir all
010right giron giron thank you guys I'm going to apologize up front these are a lot of interesting names and my bifocals need to be upgraded I'm just telling you we have Antonio Smith congratulations dalen Felman Trent rigs Maxwell Powers is Maxwell here tonight okay we can give his certificate to the coach or to Mr hus either way so I said uh let's see Maxwell Powers how about Jackson Pollock Dylan Morrow Dylan is not here this evening all righty how about Maurice MacArthur William maisy's Jonathan March Jr see jaon Adam LL Brandon Ingram Jr and Damen clay we are have our assistant coach we didn't get our assistant coach Mike Kavanaugh Mike come on down assistant coach come on oh there he is Big Mike coach Mike Co Mike Co Mike yes we do yeah Julie
011needs to be in the front yeah Julie you can go in the front you're not going to block anyone you're fine Julie you're not high enough there you need to go in the front right there you're not going to block anybody you can stand so I take they had a good season yeah yeah they won the league back to back and then they made it to District finals uh Central C we probably had half 13 from Sylvania probably at least they're mainly c c all right next up it is my pleasure to recognize the the South viw dance team who attended the OA State and UDA national dance team championship first we're going to recognize coach Heather coach you here worth coach Heather come on up we're GNA give you the team certificate congratulations we
012have Taylor wle wle policy for a second read right we have Morgan shaba shaba I think it's shabada is that correct all right yes I'm getting better 30d years's a charm Charlotte seon Charlotte's not here all right how about Sylvia Schuster no good Clipper anyway uh Allison sharf Bella rusen come on down Bella Ali row Carly Nest bomb Katherine M Taylor Kowski come on down yeah Isabelle knoff Olivia Jeri how about Callie hes Leah Hagerty Alise gral is that it Alise grel and Teegan constantinof yes I had the pleasure of seeing these ladies and our North feww cheer team or dance team as well uh down at the competition it warms my heart these girls are the hardest working athletes I think I've ever seen so congratulations to our cougarettes wild cats you're up next
013hold on thank you we have one Haley mine Horton yep next we would like to recognize another student athlete but we're going to switch gears and head on over to North viiew we have meline Horton who is the 2025 OA State diving championship and finishing First Team all n ll in the Buckeye division mine you are a talented young lady well done where's my other competition chair all right North you dance team where's my competition chair she didn't give me the other page yes right here okay I got it Bri and zelada yep so we're going to go with Coach Cara alrighty next up for North viw we are going to recognize North View's competition cheer team who qualified and competed in the 2025 OA state championships they placed eighth place in the division 2
014game day building so congratulations to these athletes we would like to recognize is coach Cara zinsky here tonight coach Cara there she she is congratulations coach we would also like to recognize Margo zeletta Hazel Shanahan Vanessa ruple Elena Rosetti Alysa petode patod Haley Murphy Molly McCoy Ellie haral Bailey Hall Georgia grinon Emy Davis Belle Bentley congratulations athletes feels so good yes North fan feels so good so we have Miranda got it all right we are recognizing our North viw dance team for the 2025 look at our cougars cheering them on just like they did the other way I love our syania students um the north VI dance team competed in the 2025 OAS SSA state dance championships where they placed fourth in Hip Hop and sixth in Palm and six in contemporary lyrical so first
015let's have Coach Alysa ker Co Alysa come on up congratulations next we have Miranda wigfield Kenneth Stitcher Delany stkey McKenzie rothar Madison knigger Sophia Gibson Addison Falcone and Sydney duvier Dei deer got it took a little help it need some tutoring with that it's not surprising that is an issue it's just I just understand how take a lot of effort they're required by it is my recommendation as we jump back into our agenda to recognize the commendations as listed and recognized this evening as item 3.1 I Rec uh recommend for approval I'll move for approval I'll second any comments or questions congratulations congratulations so proud of our Adam Greg yes Kim yes Dan yes Tammy yes Julie yes okay thank you this is this time in the agenda where if you all want to hang
016out feel free but we understand we may not be your number one priority right now we know how to clear a room like you can go so amazing knowledge will forever govern ignorance so you want to stick around get par paraphrasing James M for you there you go JP JP bye okay all righty so we will continue with our regular meeting this is the first opportunity for public participation for items which are on our agenda Amy none none oh okay okay seeing none then we are with you Mr cope so I just you want me to keep going wait if you want to wait you can wait wait a second congratulations feels good recognize the kiddos it's best part of the job are you SED up is he going to dance for us thanks Mr
017hus appreciate it all right y'all have to leave come on I just talk real loud yeah yeah all right go on Mr Co I just have a few things for for this month um I'll do the first two in consent agenda items if you don't mind minutes for 5.1 uh from March 10th and February 24th and then 5.2 is the treasures report for month ending February 28th just wanted to highlight on February you know for the month um we did get our property tax settlements we are we have one large public utility delinquent so that U could have an impact on our bottom line this year and in deficit spending or not so we're we're working with the county and and to get that paid yet this fiscal year but as of right now it's
018looking like it won't come until August so something we're working on there uh for our property taxes I'll move approval on a consent agenda basis items 5.1 and 5.2 second any comments or questions Adam Julie yes Greg yes Dan yes Tammy yes Kim yes and then 5.4 is just an annual Lucas County rate resolution just certifying the rates for the year based on the different values so it's just a blanket approval for the for the month or for the year I'm move for approval a second any comments or questions Adam Greg yes Tammy yes Kim yes Julie yes Dan yes and then I'll talk about 5.5 to 5 56 I believe but they're just um so annually uh we're able to um do some border revision complaints uh these are only commercial properties over a
019$500,000 difference between what the sale price was and what the taxable value is so very large discrepancies in terms of sale prices and again only on Commercial properties so no Residential Properties no residential similar to what we've done for for many years here but we do need to have them as individual uh that makes sense individual uh resolution number so it wouldn't feel right to do this as a concern yep so can point five I'll move approval I'll second comments or questions Adam Julie yes Kim yes Tammy yes Greg yes Dan yes 5.6 I'll move approval I'll second any comments or questions Kim yes Julie yes Tammy yes Greg yes Dan yes 5.7 I'll move for approval I'll second any comments or questions Greg yes Dan yes Tammy yes Kim yes Julie yes 5.8 move
020for approval I'll second comments or questions Greg yes Dan yes Julie yes Kim yes Tammy yes 5.9 I'll move for approval second comments questions Kim yes Dan yes Julie yes Tammy yes Greg yes 5.10 I move for approval second comments or questions Adam Greg yes Dan yes Julie yes yes Tammy yes Kim yes 511 move for approval I'll second comments or questions Greg yes Julie yes Kim yes Tammy yes Dan yes you know when I'm filling these out tomorrow it probably would have been helpful if the same first and second happened but I'm just Ming I'm trying to help you yeah it's all I'm not going to ask comments or questions TR a hog yeah 512 I'll move for approval second comments questions all right Greg yes Julie yes Kim yes Tammy yes and Dan
021yes 513 move for approval second comments questions Greg yeah yes Julie yes Kim yes Tammy yes Dan yes 514 for approval second Comer questions uh Greg yes Julie yes Kim yes Tammy yes Dan yes 515 I'll move for approval second comments or questions Greg yes Julie yes Kim yes Tammy yes Dan yes and last but not least 516 I'll move for approval second comments or questions Greg yes Julie yes Kim yes Tammy yes and Dan yes thanks guys thank you we are back with you Dr montley thank you I would like to recommend item 6.1 which is the acceptance of gifts the Veterans of Foreign Wars of Ohio Charities uh more specifically the VFW Post 2898 ated $10,000 toward North View's flag poll this is a very very generous donation I'm move approval a second
022any comments or questions thank you very much that is incredibly generous Julie yes Tammy yes Dan yes Greg yes and Kim yes thank you I would like to recommend item 6.2 which is the approval of two two field trips uh one will be for Stranahan students along with a teacher and several staff members to go to Camp store overnight and the second trip is with Anna Drake and several of her colleagues to uh accompany Junior High School students um to the Science Olympiad state finals I'll move for approval a second any comments or questions well congratulations to I'm making the Science Olympiad state finals that's very exciting fabulous it's wonderful Madam Tammy yes Dan yes Greg yes Kim yes Julie yes thank you I would like to recommend policy uh or item 6.3 for approval
023which is a policy policy revision for a second re for religious or release time for religious instruction during the school day I'll move for approval second any comments or questions Adam Tammy yes Greg yes Dan yes Kim yes Julie yes thank you I would like to recommend item 6.4 a uh variety of policies for a first read no action is to be taken at this time does anybody have any questions or comments I um on a 51 36.011677 the electronic equipment also references devices and and then electronic devices is entirely separate section or um policy and my concern is that electronic equipment appears more um restrictive than the electronic devices policy so I'm I'm just wondering if there's a way we can move towards consistency on that um and my second concern is I see
024clarification you said 5136 which is the electronic equipment overlaps with which policy electronic devices and I'm trying to find the number I don't have it okay I'll find it yeah thank you um and then my second concern is that um electronic equipment says the Board of Education will supply any electronic equipment or devices necessary for participation in the educational program and we do require students to purchase like for example t84 calculators regularly and headphones things like that so I think maybe it might be worthwhile to Define what we mean by electronic um equipment in the policy it's a good idea to exclude things like calculators thank you for that feedback and don't we also I mean we charge for Chromebooks as well for the use of Chromebooks so I don't know if that contradicts what
025the policy says something we can explore that yeah definitely there's a Fe for damage and no it's just a yearly fee oh yearly fee yeah it's like 25 bucks not overwhelming but it's still 5136 thank you so that that's why it overlaps with electronic equipment because this one electronically yeah it must be 5136 is electronic equipment 0.01 is the other one is equipment but then it refers to equipment and devices all the way through it yeah so I think we need to explain which what devices are and what equipment are and then maybe not say that we're going to provide any piece of equipment that we want people to have students to have we need to specify what that means you be more specific good feedback thank you okay anything else okay then we are
026with you Mr tersi thank you I will recommend items 7.1 and 7.2 on a consent agenda basis 7.1 licensed extra Duty and 7.2 as a licensed resignation I'll move for approval on a consent agenda basis item 7.1 and 7.2 I'll second any comments or questions Tammy yes Greg yes Kim yes Julie yes Dan yes thank you I will recommend item 8.1 which is classified new hires I'm move approval a second any comments or questions Adam Julie yes Greg yes Tammy yes Kim yes Dan yes thank you I will recommend items 9.1 and 9.2 on a consent agenda basis 9.1 are non-teaching pupil activity contracts and 9.2 are athletic volunteers both for this school year I'll move for approval on a consent agenda basis items 9.1 and 9.2 I'll second any comments or questions Adam Greg
027yes Julie yes Dan yes Tammy yes Kim yes thank you thank you uh we are at board reports Greg anything um so I had a sard meeting and a Sylvania wck meeting this past month um and really the highlight of that is um the our um Levy that was on the ballot last November passed so um the additional funds will be used to make some improvements throughout the district which is exciting um some new signs improvements to buildings some some stuff that's needed to be done for a while so that's exciting um and then as Dr mle mentioned I'll be going down to Lobby day on Wednesday thank you Tammy um I attended an sspo meeting on March 7th there was a presentation by um Mr oransky on the Career Tech program and it was
028great it um highlighted things that I already knew about um High School level programming but he also Ted about what they're doing at the junior high and Elementary levels to help kids um they actually they have an Oculus that kids can try out like different careers including um surgery which I kind of want to do myself can we go back and like an operation we had operation back in the day now they have like the whole 3D experience and he also announced that the Career Tech program had been awarded um five stars by the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce Development yeah is that right okay um and we also had a um a subcommittee of to the foundation um meeting regarding um revamping the community togate process and so that we're looking um looking
029for ideas and ways to sort of make that more interesting and engaging for the community um continuing that process with another meeting in April I believe thank you um I have SCS board meeting tomorrow night I am on the finance committee though and we had a meeting this month and they were able to secure a new um Finance director and they are um moving for kind of getting um caught up because they're a little bit behind from that and um moving forward with plans to open a new child care center uh over at Sania Area Family Services and um there looking at expanding the hours for the senior center which since having become involved on this board I've gotten a lot of it's really kind of great the stuff they do over there I'm a
030long way from being a senior but um I can see it's they do a lot of great stuff there so um it's been interesting to see um but like I said we have a board meeting tomorrow and I think that's I didn't go to sspo I am traveling to Orlando to see North View's band and Orchestra at Disney so look for my post and updates on how our kiddos do I'm sure they're going to kill it so you Dan uh last week we met as a policy committee and went over policies um was a great meeting yes it was it's always fun and uh we met with the Sylvania pre prevention Alliance had a board meeting last Thursday um and uh I wasn't able to attend in person but I attended virtually and they had
031had a very successful uh hot cocoa event uh so we got some data back on that and they're they're doing great with that and um just wanted to say thank you for to the foundation and everyone that was involved in the um Hall of Fame event on Friday it was a really nice uh event so it was I think about I also was at um svia provention Alliance and there talking about their 40th anniversary it's 40 years is their anniversary which is a really long time I think they said for a prevent organization so working on plans for that um and Hall of Fame also I was at the hall of fame it was fantastic this year was probably one of my favorites I mean it was the speeches were all fantastic um they just
032it is impressive what it was it right was it was so impr yeah it a great it was really fantastic and I was also at policy and I think that's it um second opportunity for public participation yes it is not on our agenda I think we'll see the hand familiar okay get the name wrong don't kill me so uh Robert K karik come on up you can come on up um you if you could just state your name and address for the record and then you the floor is yours for 3 minutes yeah I think she's going to turn on the podium so you're facing us good evening Robert Casper Zac uh 2329 Westbrook Toledo Toledo uh I I don't live in Sylvania um I just want to take a few minutes and share with
033you something uh on S Saturday March 15th 2024 Sylvania South viiew had their first game of the year lacrosse game uh against wals Jesuit my friend and fellow referee alen radlinski we're both referees for lacrosse uh he suffered a seizure during the game right in front of everyone of the players the coaches and all the family members who were in The Stand and in front of course in front of coach Tony Hunter um he had the seizure and the I just want to say your two trainers were right there they were uh they normally sit in their golf cart but they were right there they jumped into action um I was near the goal and he was near the the halfway point of uh of the field and by the time I got there you
034two trainers were already helping him which was great um I'm not MediCal I don't have a medical degree but I think he was dying um all I could do was just hold his hand but the two trainers uh they didn't hesitate they knew what to do they grabbed the defibrillator which was fully charged uh but fortunately they didn't use it they contacted First Responders who were there within minutes and they helped my friend Allan redlinski um they the the uh Chief was there within just a few minutes I don't know how but he was and then the ambulance came and drove right through the field at right to where Allen was laying on the ground and they took him to Flower Hospital which was great I just want to publicly thank the trainers and if
035I could make a suggestion maybe put their name or their photograph on your website cuz I I don't even know their names I I Googled it but I couldn't find it but I just wanted to uh just say thank you to them because they helped him they helped me and uh they got Allen to the right place um I bumped into the two trainers a couple weeks later when I had another lacrosse game and they were very professional I I thanked them and uh they didn't boast they didn't they weren't they didn't like pad themselves they were they were very humble and but they ended up asking me more questions about Allen uh than and I had for to thank them and it was just one of those things where I said by the way
036how long was it before they took him away cuz I thought it was like five minutes and that I was KN uh kneeling down trying to get my friend to come back um CU he was unconscious at the time and I thought it was five and he they told me it was about 30 minutes cuz wow it just happened that way um but I I wish those parents were still here because I just want to say that everyone attending a Sylvania South View uh athletic event should feel confident that if anyone was to experience a medical emergency that they should feel safe knowing that you have two trainers who will help them out and be present thank you so much for coming to share that with us I mean we we enjoy public participation but
037to have somebody come take their time out of their day on St Patrick say to to share that information with us and I'm I I trust Dr mle is going to find those trainers and um you know thank them that that's fantastic to hear like we know our community is great and we think our schools are great and our trainers are great and our coaches are great but to hear it in action I can't thank you enough for coming and sharing that with us I can't thank your trainers enough how just going to ask how is Alan doing is he okay actually that was the first game of the season for us he passed away on the last day of the season it's just one of those things I'm so sorry but he he was
038a really good referee and I've been refering for about 12 years and I I really wish those parents were here because they they need to know that southvw has a really good training program or two trainers who can help anybody out so they should feel safe thank you and their and their students so thank you so much thank you okay then with that I move we go into executive session for the purpose of employment of public officials yep second you can call the rooll Julie yes Greg yes Kim yes tamy yes Dan yes we will not take action following ex s thank